Zohreh Davoudi

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 serves as the Associate Director for Education for the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation. Her research focuses on simulating complex systems in nature arising from the most fundamental particles and interactions underlying them, or their effective descriptions. 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. 

Prior to coming to UMD in 2017, Davoudi completed a B.Sc. degree in 2007 and M.Sc degree in 2009 from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, a Ph.D. in physics in 2014 from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a post-doctoral position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Theoretical Physics.