Musa A. Hussien

I am a theoretical and computational physicist with seven years of experience solving complex materials problems using first-principles simulations and high-performance computing. I currently hold a postdoctoral position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where I lead first-principles calculations on superconducting materials for qubit fabrication in collaboration with experimentalists at the lab, and develop machine-learning interatomic potentials for amorphous materials.

Before joining Berkeley Lab, I served as Head Tutor and Project Assistant at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cape Town, where I coordinated teaching and mentoring across advanced courses in physics, mathematics, and AI. I completed my Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2023, and have taught and demonstrated physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Sudan University of Science and Technology, and Omdurman Islamic University.