introduction/brief CV
Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at King Saud University, specializing in nuclear physics. He previously worked at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) as a researcher, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor. He also held several leadership positions, including Head of the Theoretical Nuclear Physics Division and Deputy Director of the National Center for Mathematics and Physics. From 2022 to 2026, he served as Head of the Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Group at King Saud University.
He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester, Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, Master of Science in Physics from Michigan State University, and Bachelor of Science in Physics from King Saud University. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow from 2017 to 2021.
areas of expertise
Member of the nuclear and high-energy physics research group and a participating researcher in the Belle II experiment in Japan. His research interests focus on nuclear and particle physics, including:
- Applying Effective Field Theories (EFTs) to study hadronic interactions and properties.
- Investigating the characteristics of newly discovered particles to understand their internal structures and underlying compositions.
- Analyzing selected B-meson decays within the framework of the Belle II experiment.
- Exploring the interaction of radiation with matter and its applications.
Research Highlight: His theoretical work on heavy-meson spectroscopy has been cited by the LHCb and BESIII Collaborations. Notably, the mass of the newly observed beauty-strange scalar meson (B*s0), reported by LHCb as 5698.9 MeV, is essentially identical to his earlier theoretical prediction of 5699 MeV (Phys. Rev. D 103, 034009 (2021)), made before the state was experimentally observed. The BESIII Collaboration has also cited his work on excited charmed mesons (Phys. Rev. D 101, 016001 (2020)) in connection with understanding the (D*s0(2317)-Ds1(2460)) doublet.
Experimental references:
- LHCb Collaboration, “Discovery of an unexpectedly light and narrow beauty-strange state,” arXiv:2609.25178 (2026), CERN-EP-2026-250, LHCb-PAPER-2026-021
- BESIII Collaboration, “Precision measurement of the (D_s*-D_s) meson mass difference,” Science Bulletin 71, 2675–2681 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2026.04.059.
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