Born and educated in
Lahore,
British India, Masud Ahmad attended
Punjab University in 1960, and completed his BSc degree in
Physics under the contemporary supervision of
Riazuddin, followed by MSc degree in
Mathematical physics from the same institution in 1966. Ahmad then travelled to United Kingdom and attended
Imperial College London where he began his doctoral studies under Abdus Salam's physics group. In 1968, he did his DSc degree in Theoretical physics under Abdus Salam. His dissertation dealt with the theory of
Chiral symmetry and
algebraic representation in
Veneziano model – an early theory of
stings. Masud Ahmad's lifelong friendship with Riazuddin was very important for Masud's scientific and philosophical development. It was Riazuddin who arranged summer stay with
Ishfaq Ahmad in Islamabad for young Ahmad, thus orienting his science career in nuclear physics. Ahmad spent two years at Institute of Physics (IP) of
Quaid-i-Azam University where he worked under
Faheem Hussain's Theoretical Physics Group. At IP, he published the theoretical work on Veneziano Model where he had used the
Compton scattering to investigate
Pions behaviour on the Veneziano Model. In 1970, along with
Fayyazuddin, he carried out the work on construction of Veneziano representation for pion photoproduction
amplitude, in which he predicted that, keeping the and the
ρ trajectories, the zero-free parameter fits for the sum and the difference of the differential cross sections for unpolarised photons and the asymmetry function Σ(+) are obtained. Prior to the discovery of
Alfvén wave in
hydromagnetics in 1969, Ahmad was engaged as a theoretical physicist, working in the fields of
quantum,
molecular, and nuclear physics. In 1970, on an advice of Abdus Salam, Ahmad went to Italy to join
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to pursue his further doctoral studies. In 1971, he was joined by Riazuddin and Abdus Salam where he contributed with them in an emerging theory of
Quantum electrodynamics. ==Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission==