The Aryeh and Mintzi Katzman Professor

CURRICULUM VITAE Born: 1949, Israel Academic Background 1973-1977: Graduate student at the Ben Gurion University at Beer-Sheva, Israel, and at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. 1970-1973: Undergraduate at the Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.   Employment 1992-present: Full Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science. Sep. 2001-Dec. 2001: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. 1994-1999: Chairman, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute. 1996 Visiting Professor University of Pittsburgh 1990-1994: Head Chemical Services, Weizmann Institute 1992-present: Full Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science. 1986-1992: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science. Nov. 1986-Oct. 1987: Visiting Fellow, JILA University of Colorado, Boulder, Co. USA. Sept. 1980-1986: Senior Researcher, Department of Isotope Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science. 1979-1980: Lecturer and research associate, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University 1977-1979: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca. USA. Recognition Fellow of the American Physical Society. 2007: Recipient of the "Lectureship Award of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry" authorized by The Chemical Society of Japan. 2008-2011: Member of the advisory board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. 2010: Lectureship of the Chemical Society, Taiwan. 2011: Erasmus Mundus research scholar at TU Dresden. 2011- Member of the editorial board of Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. Past and present students, postdoctoral fellows, and research associates Former Ph.D. and M.Sc. Students: A. Petrank, S. R. Cohen, Y. Paz, Y. Rudich, A. Kadyshevitch, Y. Hurwitz, M. Veneziani, A. Haran, S. Tracktenberg, R. Havdala, A. Samokhvalov, I. Carmeli, Oara Neumann, Victor Sidorov, S.G. Ray, Reit Artzi, Zeev Fradkin, Tsafrir Yedid-Am, Dana Peled, Eyal Capua, Royi Kaufman, Tali Aqua, Gregory Kopnov, Tal Markus, Gilad Gotesman. Current Students: Nir Eliyahu, Maria Tkachev, Anand Tatikonda, Sivan Kober. Current Research Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows: Amos Bardea, Rahamim Guliamov, Gilad Gotesman, Tal Markus, K. Senthil Kumar. Former Research Associates and Post-doctoral Fellows: J. Nieman, D. Lubman, K. Ray, R. Ussyshkin, D. Dimitrov, S. Atrill, S.P. Ananthavel, Ronny Ben-Shafrut, Viera Skakalova, Shirley Daube, Dimtry Shvarts, Miron Hazani, Claude Nouges, Xechuan Yu, Adam Winkelman, Bat Ami Gotliv, Alex Zakrassov, Zouti Xie. Synergistic Activities 2010- The head of the Nancy and Stephan Grand Research Center for Sensors and Security. 2008-2010: Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute. 2007-2009: Chairman of the National Committee for Chemistry Education in High Schools. 2006-2008: Deputy chairman of the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute. 2005-2007: Chairman of the board of the FIRST Foundation for interdisciplinary research. 2002-2005: Member of the board of FIRST. 2000-2002: Head of the scientific committee of the Israel Science Foundation in Physical Chemistry. 1995-2003: Member in the National Committee for Chemistry Education in High Schools. 1997-2000: Member of the committee for reform in high education. 1996-2000: Scientific advisor for the US-Israel Science Foundation.