Mohammad Maghrebi

Mohammad Maghrebi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Michigan State University, where he has been since January 2017. His research focuses on non-equilibrium quantum systems, entanglement in many-body systems, and fluctuation-induced phenomena. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2013 and was a post-doctoral research scholar at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland before joining MSU.

His group explores long-range interacting systems, topological phases, and quantum Brownian motion, with applications in quantum information science and quantum materials engineering. Recent work includes non-equilibrium criticality studies using trapped-ion quantum simulators and hybrid quantum-classical approaches to spin-boson models.

• NSF CAREER Award recipient (2021)
• AFOSR Young Investigator awardee (2019)
• Two-time Favorite Graduate Teacher Award winner (2018, 2020)

Maghrebi advises a team including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, with alumni now at institutions like MIT Lincoln Laboratory and UC Boulder/NIST. He also leads outreach initiatives such as the public "Schrodinger's Cat is in Town!" workshop series on chaos theory and art.