Muhammad Hamza Waseem is a physicist working on quantum foundations and quantum computing, with an emphasis on compositional, process-based perspectives. He is the Faculty Lead for Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University London. He also teaches mathematics and physics part-time at the University of Oxford, and consults on quantum science education.

He completed his DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and worked as a Research Scientist at Quantinuum. During his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at UET Lahore, he helped establish Pakistan's first single-photon quantum physics laboratory and co-authored Quantum Mechanics in the Single-Photon Laboratory (IOP Publishing), now in its second edition.

Alongside his research, Hamza has spent a decade in science outreach and widening participation. He co-created Quantum in Pictures, a programme teaching quantum physics to school students through diagrams, now active in more than twelve countries and adopted into Greece's national curriculum, with its results published in peer-reviewed studies. He helped organise the Lahore Science Mela, Pakistan's largest annual science festival, from its first edition, and co-founded Spectra Magazine, a student-run science-writing platform. His engagement work has been recognised with Oxford MPLS Public Engagement with Research Impact Award (2024), Oxford Vice-Chancellor's Research Engagement Award (High Commendation, 2026), South East Physics Network's (SEPnet) Public Engagement Award (High Commendation, 2021), and the Diana Award (2021). 

He can be contacted at hamzawaseem813@gmail.com.