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Zohreh Davoudi

Associate Director for Education

University of Maryland

RQS Executive CouncilRQS Senior Investigator
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davoudi@umd.edu

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Zohreh Davoudi is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland. She studies strongly interacting systems, such as hadrons and nuclei, using analytical and computational methods including effective field theories, lattice quantum chromodynamics, quantum simulation and quantum computing. Davoudi received her doctorate in physics from the University of Washington in 2014.

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    A New Take on the Oldest Physics: What Actually Happened Right After the Big Bang?

    April 7, 2025

    Senior investigators Zohreh Davoudi, Nicole Yunger Halpern, and Chris Jarzynski are collaborating to blend three disparate fields of physics—the study of elementary particles and their interactions, the understanding of temperature and heat in quantum mechanics, and quantum simulation—to create a novel approach to understanding and modeling the physics of the early universe and high-energy collisions.

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    Davoudi Receives Prestigious PECASE Award

    January 21, 2025

    The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on up-and-coming researchers.

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    Particle Physics and Quantum Simulation Collide in New Proposal

    July 8, 2024

    In a recent paper, RQS researchers Zohreh Davoudi and Alexey Gorshkov collaborated with others to present a novel simulation method, discussing what insights the simulations might provide about the creation of particles during energetic collisions.