Faculty

Chairman
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Dr. Mohammad F. Al-Kuhaili
Chairman
Thin Films and Material Science

6/225 966-1-860-3747 kuhaili@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Distinguished Professor
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Dr. Mohammad A. Gondal
Distinguished Professor
Laser Physics and Spectroscopy

6/259B 966-1-860-2351/3274 magondal@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Chair Professor

Name: Raditya Weda Bomantara

Title: Assistant Professor

Brief Research Interests: Topological phases of matter in periodically driven systems and their quantum computing applications

Research Areas: Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Computing

Office: 6/145

Tel: 966-1-860-1170

Email: raditya.bomantara@kfupm.edu.sa

Website: ‪Raditya Bomantara - ‪Google Scholar

Lab(s): -

Affiliated Center(s): Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Secure Systems

Research Interests:

I am interested in exploring novel topological phases that arise in the presence of periodic driving and/or strong interaction effect, as well as their potential advantages as quantum technologies, particularly for the development of the sought-after quantum computers.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr Bomantara received his PhD in Physics from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2017 and did his postdoctoral career at University of Sydney until August 2022. He joined KFUPM as an Assistant Professor of Physics since September 2022.

AWARDS & HONORS:

  • Outstanding reviewer for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2020)
  • Participant of the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics.
  • Materials Research Society of Singapore medal for the best PhD thesis in NUS Physics Department (2018)
  • Valedictorian in NUS AY2017/2018 graduation ceremony
  • Full-time Teaching Assistant award for AY15/16, AY16/17, and AY17/18 at NUS

KEY PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Z. Cheng, R. W. Bomantara (co-first author), H. Xue, W. Zhu, J. Gong, B. Zhang, “Observation of pi/2 modes in an acoustic Floquet system”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 254301 (2022).
  2. R. W. Bomantara,” Square-root Floquet topological phases and time crystals”, Phys Rev. B 106, L060305 (2022).
  3. R. W. Bomantara, “Quantum repetition codes as building blocks of large-period discrete time crystals”, Phys. Rev. B 104, L180304 (2021).
  4. R. W. Bomantara, “Time-induced second-order topological superconductors”, Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 033495 (2020).
  5. R. W. Bomantara and J. Gong, “Simulation of non-Abelian braiding in Majorana time crystals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230405 (2018).

Dr. Raditya Weda Bomantara Assistant Professor 6-145 966-1-860-1170 raditya.bomantara@kfupm.edu.sa

Professor
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Dr. Fahhad Alharbi
Professor
Optics and Photonics

59-2082 966-1-860-2337 fahhad.alharbi@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Hocine Bahlouli
Professor
Condensed Matter

6/221 966-1-860-2097 bahlouli@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khalil A. Ziq
Professor
Superconductivity

6/259F 966-1-860-3761 kaziq@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khalil Harrabi
Professor
Mesoscopic physics and Superconductivity

6/151 966-1-860-2239 harrabi@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Zain Hassan Yamani
Professor
Condensed Matter

15/3102, 6/227 966-1-860-4363/4328 zhyamani@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Associate Professor

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Dr. Abdelkrim Mekki
Associate Professor
Material Science

6/219 966-1-860-4292 akmekki@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Abdul-Aziz Al-Jalal
Associate Professor
Laser Physics and Spectroscopy

6/117 966-1-860-1017 aljalal@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Ashraf Mohamed Samir Farahat
Associate Professor
Physics/Space Physics

6-140 966-1-860-7290 ashraf.farahat@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Ayman S. El-Said
Associate Professor
Applied Nuclear Physics (Ion beam modifications)

6/228 966-1-860-7561 elsaid@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khaled Gasmi
Associate Professor
Laser Spectroscopy and Laser Sensing

6/232 966-1-860-2275 kgasmi@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Muhammad Baseer Haider
Associate Professor
Surface and materials Science

6/143 966-1-860-2371 mhaider@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Nidal Khaled Dwaikat
Associate Professor
Nuclear and Radiation Physics

06/217 966-1-860-2872 ndwaikat@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Saeed Al-Marzoug
Associate Professor
Bose Einstein Condensate and nonlinear physics

6/220 966-1-860-7316 marzoug@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Saleem Rao
Associate Professor
Condensed Matter Physics

6/147 966-1-860-1675 saleemg@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Watheq Ahmed Al-Basheer
Associate Professor
Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics/Chemical Physics

6/231 966-1-860-2216 Watheq@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Serdar Elhatisari
Associate Professor

6/115 966-1-860-5868 Serdar.Elhatisari@kfupm.edu.sa
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Assistant Professor

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Dr. Tariq Al-Abdullah
Assistant Professor

6/259E 860-2260 tariq.alabdullah@kfupm.edu.sa​​ Website
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Dr. Sabri Elatresh
Assistant Professor
​Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics

6/139 966-1-860-2860 sabri.elatresh@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Raditya Weda Bomantara
Assistant Professor
​Condensed Matter and Quantum Computing

6-145 966-1-860-1170 raditya.bomantara@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Michael Vogl
Assistant Professor
​Condensed Matter

6/222 966-1-860-4056 michael.vogl@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Khan Alam
Assistant Professor
​Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Thin Films

6/121 966-1-860-3869 khan.alam@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Jihad Al- Sadah
Assistant Professor
Medical physics

6/230 966-1-860-4893 jhalsadah@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Faris Ahmed Al-matouq
Assistant Professor

6\259G 966-13-860-5606 faris@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Burhan Saifaddin
Assistant Professor

6/226 966-1-860-1340 burhan.saifaddin@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Adel Abbout
Assistant Professor

6/259-A 966-1-860-1426 adel.abbout@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Abdulwahab Abdulrahman Al Luhaibi
Assistant Professor

6/146 966-1-860-3752 aalluhaibi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Abdulaziz Husain M. Al-Aswad
Assistant Professor
Dean, Academic Development

6/224 966-1-860-2637 abdu@kfupm.edu.sa
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Dr. Abdallah M. Al-Zahrani
Assistant Professor
Gravitational Physics

6/229 966-1-860-3468 amz@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Lecturer

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Mr. Muhammad Dastageer
Lecturer
Laser Molecular Spectroscopy

28/134 966-1-860-4574 makader@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Mogtaba B. Mekki
Lecturer
Self-organized of Nano-structures, Numerical Solution of PDE with Noise, Nano-Scale Magnetism

6/134 966-1-860-4697 mogtaba@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Mr. Khateeb-Ur-Rehman
Lecturer
Nuclear Physics

6/152 966-1-860-2798 khateeb@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Mr. Ayman Ghannam
Lecturer
Superconductivity

6/141 966-1-860-1597 ghannama@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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Dr. Ahmed F. Salem
Lecturer
Superconductivity

6/122 966-1-860-1253 afsalem@kfupm.edu.sa Website
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