Dr. Mahmood Irtiza Hussain

Senior Scientist Quantum Sensing

Email

mahussain@hbku.edu.qa

Dr. Mahmood Irtiza Hussain

Senior Scientist Quantum Sensing

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Physics

MSc in Applied Physics

Biography

Dr. Irtiza obtained his PhD from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He worked with numerous internationally renowned research teams and institutions in the field of quantum information sciences. He was a member of Prof. Rainer Blatt's group at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and later at the University of Innsbruck, Austria with Prof. Christian F. Roos. Subsequently, he joined the EU Thorium Nuclear Clock project where he stayed in Prof. Peter Thirolf's group at the University of Munich (LMU) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Germany. In addition, he worked as a consultant at IonQ Quantum Inc. MD, USA, and conducted research at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan.

PhD in Physics

Griffith University, Australia

2017

MSc in Applied Physics

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

2008

BSc in Physics/Mathematics

University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan

2006

  • Trapped ion quantum information
  • Matter wave interferometry
  • Atomic and nuclear clock
  • Ultrafast lasers (frequency combs)

Sr. Scientist

Qatar Center for Quantum Computing, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2024 - Present

Consultant

R&D, IonQ Quantum Inc. Maryland, USA

2023 - 2025

Scientific Staff

Department of Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

2021 - 2024

Guest Scientist

Laser and Optical Systems, Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology, Aachen, Germany

2021 - 2023

Postdoc

IQOQI, Innsbruck and Institute for Experimental Physics, Austrian Academy of Science and the University of Innsbruck, Austria

2018 - 2021

Research Fellow

Center for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

2017

Researcher

NII, National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

2012

Research Associate

Center for Quantum Physics, COMSATs University Islamabad, Pakistan

2010 - 2011

Hussain, M. I., Guevara-Bertsch, M., Torrontegui, E., García-Ripoll, J. J., Blatt, R., & Roos, C. (2023). Single-ion optical autocorrelator. arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03679.

Hussain, M. I., Heinrich, D., Guevara-Bertsch, M., Torrontegui, E., García-Ripoll, J. J., Roos, C. F., & Blatt, R. (2021, February). Ultraviolet laser pulses with multigigahertz repetition rate and multiwatt average power for fast trapped-ion entanglement operations. Physical Review Applied, 15(2), 024054.

Torrontegui, E., Heinrich, D., Hussain, M. I., Blatt, R., & García-Ripoll, J. J. (2020, October). Ultra-fast two-qubit ion gate using sequences of resonant pulses. New Journal of Physics, 22(10), 103024.

Heinrich, D., Guggemos, M., Guevara-Bertsch, M., Hussain, M. I., Roos, C. F., & Blatt, R. (2019). Ultrafast coherent excitation of a 40Ca⁺ ion. New Journal of Physics, 21(7), 073017.

Blums, V., Piotrowski, M., Hussain, M. I., Norton, B. G., Connell, S. C., Gensemer, S., Lobino, M., & Streed, E. W. (2018, March 23). A single-atom 3D sub-attonewton force sensor. Science Advances, 4(3), eaao4453.

Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar

  • Griffith International Postgraduate Scholarship
  • Griffith Postgraduate Scholarship
  • National Institute of Informatics, Japan, fully funded researcher.
  • Research and productivity award COMSATs University
  • 2nd Position research compilation video competition, Griffith University, Australia