Musahid Ahmed is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Probing gas, interfacial and condensed phase chemical dynamics with  synchrotron based mass spectrometry, X-ray, infrared and terahertz spectroscopy is his passion. Recently he has discovered that ultrafast spectroscopy, X-Ray scattering and Raman spectroscopy are cool tools to allow him to chip away at deciphering dynamics in complex systems.