Rate My Professor Mohamed Zayed

Mohamed Zayed is an Associate Teaching Professor of Physics in the Arts and Sciences program at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, a position he has held since 2017. He earned his D.Sc. from ETH Zurich in 2010, with a doctoral thesis entitled "Novel States in Magnetic Materials under Extreme Conditions." Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Zayed served on the faculty at Qatar University beginning in August 2016. His research specializes in the thermodynamics of quantum materials, with a particular emphasis on frustrated magnets such as SrCu₂(BO₃)₂, a model compound in quantum magnetism. In 2021, Zayed contributed to an international collaboration that provided new insights into quantum thermodynamics by demonstrating critical-point physics in a pure spin system for the first time. This breakthrough, achieved through precise specific heat measurements and mathematical modeling, revealed phenomena analogous to phase transitions in classical systems like water under varying pressure and temperature. The findings were published in Nature.