Dr. Mohammedreza Rezaee

Lab Manager

Email

mrezaee@hbku.edu.qa

Phone

+974 445 40388

Dr. Mohammedreza Rezaee

Lab Manager

Educational Qualifications

PhD, Physics

MS, Photonics

Biography

Dr. Mohammadreza Rezaee, PhD, is the Lab Manager at the Qatar Center for Quantum Computing (QC2), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. In this role, he leads the establishment and operation of one of the region’s premier quantum research laboratories, focusing on advancing quantum optics, communication, and sensing technologies.

Dr. Rezaee earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2015, followed by postdoctoral positions at Texas A&M University and the University of Ottawa. At uOttawa, he was instrumental in establishing the Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics (JCEP), a landmark collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada. His research interests span quantum light sources, the application of vacancy centers in diamond for quantum sensing, and quantum simulation.

In addition to his academic achievements, Dr. Rezaee is a visionary entrepreneur, having founded three quantum hardware startups in Canada and the USA. He is an alumnus of the Creative Destruction Lab-QML program at the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto (2018), and was selected for Y Combinator’s W19 cohort in California.

Driven by a passion for bridging the gap between cutting-edge quantum science and transformative commercial applications, Dr. Rezaee continues to play a key role in advancing the global quantum ecosystem through research, collaboration, and innovation.

PhD, Physics

2015

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

MS, Photonics

2008

Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

BS, Atomic Physics

2005

Shiraz University, Iran

  • Quantum optics
  • Quantum information science and technology
  • Quantum sensing and imaging
  • Computational chemistry

Lab Manager

CSE/QC2, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2024 - Present

Quantum Team Lead

Account Manager, Mitacs Inc.

2022 - 2024

Lab Manager/PDF

Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Ottawa, Canada

2019 - 2021

CEO

QSpice Labs Inc.

2017 - 2019

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Physics and Astronomy Department, Texas A&M University, USA

2016 - 2017

Rezaee, M., Zhang, Y., Harden, J., & Karimi, E. (2022). Observation of non-classical photon statistics in single-bubble sonoluminescence [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rosi, P., Venturi, F., Medici, G., Menozzi, C., Gazzadi, G., Rotunno, E., Frabboni, S., Balboni, R., Rezaee, M., Tavabi, A., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Karimi, E., & Grillo, V. (2022). Theoretical and practical aspects of the design and production of synthetic holograms for transmission electron microscopy. Journal of Applied Physics, 131(3), 031101.

Salari, V., Paneru, D., Saglamyurek, E., Ghadimi, M., Abdar, M., Rezaee, M., Aslani, M., Barzanjeh, S., & Karimi, E. (2021). Quantum face recognition protocol with ghost imaging [Preprint].

D’Errico, A., Hufnagel, F., Miatto, F., Rezaee, M., & Karimi, E. (2021). Full-mode characterization of correlated photon pairs generated in spontaneous downconversion. Optics Letters, 46(10), 2388–2391.

Fan, J.-W., Cojocaru, I., Becker, J., Fedotov, I., Alkahtani, M., Alajlan, A., Blakley, S., Rezaee, M., Lyamkina, A., Palyanov, Y., Borzdov, Y., Yang, Y., Zheltikov, A., Hemmer, P., & Akimov, A. (2018). Germanium-vacancy color center in diamond as a temperature sensor. ACS Photonics, 5(9), 3647–3652.

Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar

  • Recipient of Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur, Postdoctoral Fellow Grant, Canada
  • 2015 Burkhoff Fellowship, Physics and Astronomy Department, UTK
  • Vice President of Finance, University of Ottawa Postdoctoral Association, Ottawa, Canada
  • 2015 President of Graduate Physics Society, UTK
  • 2014 President of OSA Student Chapter, UTK