Mustafa Saeed

BIOGRAPHY 

Mustafa Saeed joined Centre College as a visiting assistant professor of physics in the fall of 2023. His research interests include fundamental theories of physics such as quantum gravity; applied theories of physics, particularly quantum information and social physics. Aside from physics, Mustafa enjoys martial arts, professional wrestling, reading and writing fiction (fantasy and sci-fi) and the outdoors. In addition to conversing with Mustafa about any of the above, you can also ask him about his family, his dogs, his journey thus far as a physicist and his affinity for grapefruit-flavored Bubbly. 

PUBLICATIONS

• "Cosmological perturbation theory with matter time" Physical Review D (2020)
• "Ising-like models on Euclidean black holes" Classical and Quantum Gravity (2024)
• "Quantum cosmology as a lattice-in-a-box" in preparation

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Division of Theoretical Physics Best Student Poster Presentation Award, CAP Congress 2023

COURSES TAUGHT

At Centre College

• Phys 120 - Physics for life sciences (Fall 2023)

At University of New Brunswick

• Phys 1052 - Introductory physics 2 (Winter 2023)
• Math 0863 - Precalculus (Fall 2022)
• Astr 1013 - Elementary astronomy (Winter 2022)
• Phys 1081 - Introductory physics 1 (Fall 2021)
• Math 1003 - Introduction to calculus 1 (Fall 2019)