Education:
1991-1996:Postdoctoral Fellow and Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Sciences Division, with Dr. K.H. Downing. Research: Elucidation of the structure of tubulin by high resolution electron crystallography and microscopy.
1991: Ph.D. awarded, Dept. of Structural Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. Supervisor: Prof. L. Leiserowitz
Thesis: “The Structure of Two-Dimensional Crystals Residing at the Air-Solution Interface”.
1986: M.Sc. awarded, Dept. of Structural Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. Supervisors: Prof. L. Leiserowitz and Prof. Z. Berkovitch-Yellin.
Thesis: “The Modeling of the Structures of Amphiphilic α-Amino Acid Monolayers”.
1982: B.A. in Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Employment:
2003- present: Senior Staff Scientist at the Irving and Cherna Moskowitz Center for Nano and Bio-Nano Imaging, Dept.of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science.
1997- 2003: Associate Staff Scientist at the Irving and Cherna Moskowitz Center for Nano and Bio-Nano Imaging, Dept.of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science.
1995-1996: Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Sciences Division. Research: Solving the structure of the protein tubulin by electron crystallography of two-dimensional crystals.
1991-1994: Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Sciences Division, with Dr. K.H. Downing. Research: Elucidation of the structure of tubulin by high resolution electron microscopy.
1983-1991: MSc. and Ph.D. research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Research: Studying the structure of lipid monolayers at the air-water interface by molecular energy calculations, x-ray crystallography, surface X-ray diffraction, and reflectivity studies.