Rate My Professor Mohammed Hassan

Mohammed Hassan serves as Associate Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences at The University of Arizona, where he has been a faculty member since 2017, initially as Assistant Professor until his promotion in 2023. He is also affiliated with the BIO5 Institute for Biomedical Science and Biotechnology since 2017. Hassan obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and the Physics Department of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz, Nobel laureate in Physics 2023. Earlier, he completed his M.S. in 2008 and B.S. in 2003 at Cairo University. Following his doctorate, he conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from 2013 to 2017, mentored by Prof. Dr. Ahmed Zewail, Nobel laureate in Chemistry 1999. Additionally, he held a Max Planck Research Fellowship starting in 2009.

Hassan's research centers on pioneering attosecond temporal resolution in electron microscopy through the generation of attosecond electron pulses, establishing the field of attomicroscopy to capture movies of electronic and atomic motion. His fields of study include atomic, molecular, and optical physics as well as condensed matter physics. He has received numerous accolades, such as the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award in 2019, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation research investigator award in 2018, the AFOSR Director’s Research Initiative Award in 2022, the Department of Defense HBCU/MI Award in 2022, the M.W. Keck research grant award in 2020, and membership on the APL Photonics Journal Editorial Advisory Board since 2022. Key publications encompass "High-temporal-resolution electron microscopy for imaging ultrafast electron dynamics" in Nature Photonics (2017), "Optical attosecond pulses and tracing the nonlinear response of bound electrons" in Nature (2016), "Imaging rotational dynamics of nanoparticles in liquid by 4D electron microscopy" in Science (2017), "Extreme ultraviolet high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids" in Nature (2015), and "Synthesized Light Transients" in Science (2011). His groundbreaking work has advanced ultrafast imaging technologies with profound implications for understanding quantum dynamics.