Mustafa Amin

Mustafa Amin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. His research focuses on understanding the origin of cosmic structure and matter, particularly through nonlinear dynamics of cosmological fields, dark matter (axions/vector dark matter), solitons, and early universe phenomena. He holds a PhD from Stanford University (2008) and a BS from the University of Texas at Arlington (2003). Amin has held prestigious fellowships including the Senior Kavli Fellowship at Cambridge and the Pappalardo Fellowship at MIT.

• Education: BS Physics/Mathematics (UT Arlington, 2003), PhD Physics (Stanford, 2008)
• Teaching: Cosmology, Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity

His research explores topics like dark matter spin probes, Hubble tension, gravitational waves, and exoplanet dynamics. Recent work includes studies on vector wave dark matter, axion string networks, and soliton interactions. Amin has delivered invited talks globally, including at CERN, Perimeter Institute, and MIT.

• Awards: Rice Teaching Award (2019), Kavli Frontiers Fellow (2016)
• Labs/Groups: Co-leads the Relativistic Astroparticle Physics & Cosmology Group at Rice