Ernesto Joselevich CV

Curriculum Vitae

Rehovot, December 2008

Personal Details

Name: Ernesto Joselevich

Academic degree: Associate Professor

Date and place of birth: March 3, 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Citizenship: Argentina, Spain, Israel permanent residence

Marital status: Married + 4

Contact information: Department of Materials and Interfaces
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Tel. +972-8-9342350
Fax: +972-8-9344138 (Department)
Personal home page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/ernesto
E-mail : ernesto.joselevich@weizmann.ac.il

Education

1998 - 2000 Postdoctoral associate at Harvard University with Prof. Charles M. Lieber, working on nanostructured materials (including carbon nanotubes), chemical force microscopy and biophysical chemistry

1997 Postdoctoral period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Prof. Itamar Willner, setting up scanning probe microscopy facilities (AFM, STM, NSOM and Electrochemistry)

1996 Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1990 - 1995 Graduate studies in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Itamar Willner. Title of thesis: "Control of Photochemical Processes by means of Organized Systems and Microheterogeneous Environments"

1989 B.Sc. degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude (average grade: 95), from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1986 - 1989 B.Sc. studies in Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1985 - 1986 First year of B.Sc. studies in Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

1981 - 1985 High School in mathematics and physics section

Employment History

2008 - Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute, Department of Materials and Interfaces (from November 2008).

2001 - 2008 Senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Department of Materials and Interfaces (from April 2001).

Academic Administration

2001 - 2006 Coordinator of Materials Research Seminars, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute

2005 - 2006 Equipment Review Committee for the Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute

2003 - 2004 Delegate of the Chemistry senior scientists at the Scientific Council, Weizmann Institute

2003 Coordinator of the Ulpana Amos De-Shalit for 1st and 2nd year Chemistry students

Teaching Eperience

Courses taught at the Weizmann Institute:

2003 – 2006 Physical Chemistry 1B (Kinetics)

2002 Masters Seminar Course

Courses taught before present appointment (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):

1992 - 1995 Assistant teacher of Organic Chemistry for 2nd-year Chemistry students

1990 - 1994 Tutor of Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory for 3rd-year Chemistry students

1990 - 1992 Assistant teacher of Organic Chemistry for 1st-year Biology students

1990 - 1992 Tutor of Organic Chemistry Laboratory for 1st-year Medicine students

Prizes and Awards

2007 Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize

2006 Weizmann Scientific Council Award “for his discovery of the phenomenon of carbon nanotubes growth with a specific direction and the understanding of the growth mechanism”

2001 Bergman memorial award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation

2001 Alon Fellowship for young scientist in Israel (for 3 years)

1997 Academic training fellowship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a postdoctoral stay at Harvard

1995 Haas Family Award for outstanding achievements in the Ph.D. research

1991 Wolf Foundation Award for outstanding achievements in the M.Sc. research

1989 Rector's Award for outstanding achievements in the B.Sc. studies

1989 Dean's List of Excellency (3rd year B.Sc.)

1988 Dean's List of Excellency (2rd year B.Sc.)

1987 Mention of Honor of the Knesset (The Israeli Parliament) for new immigrant’s achievements in the first year of B.Sc. studies. Ceremony held at the Knesset

Conferences

Invited talks at international meetings:

2007 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (U.S.A.), November 26-30: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”

2006 Nanotube ‘06, Nagano (Japan), June 18-23: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization” (plenary talk)

2006 Frontiers Winterschool – Understanding Processes at the Molecular Level, Lenzewrheide (Switzerland), March 18-23: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”

2005 NanoteC05 – Nanotechnology in Carbon and Related Materials, University of Sussex, Brighton (U.K.), August 31 – September 3: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”

2005 International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State, UCLA, Los Angeles (U.S.A), July 24-29: “Nanotube Formation along Atomic Steps”

2002 12^th International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry, Eilat (Israel), October 6-11: “Carbon Nanotubes as Building Blocks in Molecular Electronics”

2001 6^th International Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies, Eilat (Israel), September 2-6: “Vectorial Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for Molecular Electronics”

Invited talks at binational meetings:

2007 Dutch-Israel Symposium – Molecular Materials, November 18-20, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel): “From Molecular Epitaxy to Nanotube Epitaxy”

2006 India-Israel Symposium - From Molecules to Composites: Interdisciplinary approaches to Materials Research, May 4-8, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre, Bangalore (India): “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”

2006 France-Israel Symposium on Diamond, Carbon Nano-structures and Related Materials, March 6-7, Ein Bokek (Israel): “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”

2005 Nanotubes and Nanowires - Germany-Israel Foundation Meeting, June 20-23, Dresden (Germany): “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”

2002 Nanochemistry 2002 - Germany-Israel Workshop on the Fabrication, Characterization and Properties of Nanomaterials, November 17-18, Rimonim-Neptune Hotel, Eilat (Israel): “Carbon nanotubes as building blocks for molecular electronics” (Member of organizing committee)

2001 Japan-Israel Binational Workshop on Diamond Science & Technology, December 6-7, Kochi University of Technology, Tosayamada-cho, Kochi (Japan): “Carbon nanotubes as building blocks for molecular electronics”

2001 Switzerland-Israel Meeting, UCSB-WIS-ETHZ-EPFL Workshop on Advanced Materials, September 9-13, Crêt-Berard, Puidoux, Lausanne (Switzerland): “Vectorial growth of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics”

2000 Netherlands-Israel Meeting, Molecular Avenues in Material and Surface Science, October 23-25, University of Twente (The Netherlands):“Vectorial growth of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics circuitry and computing”

Contributed talks at international meetings:

2007 American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, (U.S.A.), March 2007: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”

2006 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco (U.S.A.), April 16-21: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization” (talk selected “of special note”)

2005 American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, (U.S.A.), March 2005: “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”

2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston: “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”

2000 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (U.S.A.), November 27- December 1: “Vectorial Growth of Carbon Nanotubes”

Poster presentations at international meetings:

2007 Nanotube ‘07, Ouro Preto, (Brazil), March 2007: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes” (1st poster), “Nanotube Epitaxy” (2nd poster).
2007 International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, Kirchberg in Tirol, (Austria), March 2007: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes” (1st poster), “Nanotube Epitaxy” (2nd poster).
2007 American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, (U.S.A.), March 2007: “Nanotube Epitaxy”.
2005 Nanotube ‘05, Gothenburg (Sweden), June 26 – July 1: “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”.

Peer Reviewing Journals

Science
Nature Nanotechnology
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Angewandte Chemie
Nano Letters
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Applied Physics Letters
ChemPhysChem
Small
Chemistry of Materials
Chemical Communications
Journal of Physics A
Nanotechnology

Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Former students:

Ariel Ismach: M.Sc. (1 yr, 2003)
Thesis title: “Decoration of atomic steps by single-wall carbon nanotubes”. Thesis qualification: 95. Published cover article in Angewandte Chemie. Participated in Fall 2004 MRS Meeting. Student poster award at the 2004 Israel Vacuum Society Meeting.
Current activity: Ph.D. studies at Weizmann with Dr. Ernesto Joselevich
Lior Segev: M.Sc. (1 yr., 2003)
Thesis title: “Torsional carbon nanotube nanoelectromechanical systems”. Thesis qualification: 95.
Current activity: PhD studies at Weizmann with Dr. Leeor Kronik
Amir Lichtenstein: Postdoctoral fellow (1 yr., 2003)
Current activity: Employment in start-up biotechnology company
Onit Srur-Lavi: M.Sc. (1 yr., 2004)
Thesis title: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”. Thesis qualification: 95.
Current activity: Employment in high-tech military industry (Mabat, Inc.)
Tzahi Cohen-Karni: M. Sc. (1 yr., 2006)
Thesis title: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”. Thesis qualification: 97. Awarded Feinberg Graduate School Dean’s Prize
Current activity: PhD studies at Harvard University, with Prof. Charles M. Lieber
Ilya Shlar: M.Sc. (2 yrs., 2005)
Thesis title: Thesis title: "Biotemplated Array of One-Dimensional Nanostructures". Thesis qualification: 87.
Current activity: vacation
David Kantorovich: M.Sc. (1 yr., 2006)
Thesis title: “Elaboration and Electrical Characterization of Epitaxial Carbon Nanotubes”. Thesis qualification: 91.
Current activity: Employment at Intel Corp., Kiryat Gat. (training in Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Rachel Gabai: Ph. D. (4 yrs., 2007)
Thesis title: “Patterning and Mapping Molecules and One-Dimensional Nanostructures at Surfaces via Hierarchical Self-Assembly and Entropic Control”
Noam Geblinger: M.Sc. (1 yr., 2007)
Thesis title: “Self-Organized Nanotube Serpentines”. Thesis qualification: 94. Student poster award at the 2007 Israel Chemical Society Meeting. Student poster award at the 2007 Israel Vaccum Society Meeting.
Current activity: Pre-doctoral employee at the Weizmann Institute with Dr. Ernesto Joselevich
Rotation, volunteers and summer students: Dikla Raz (sum.), Elad Dinar (rot.), Toni Fröhlich (sum.), Reuven Levitt (rot.), Maximin Salles (French voluteer), Yuri Tulchinsky (rot.), Andrey Kharchenko (rot.), Hamutal Arbel (rot.), Jonathan Berson (rot.), Gilad Gotesman (rot.), Atalia Birman (rot.), Roy Har-Tsvi (rot.), Tohar Yarden (rot.), Roi Levi (rot.).

Present students:

Ariel Ismach (Ph.D.) Project title: “Carbon Nanotube Epitaxy”.
Student poster award at the 2006 Israel Chemical Society Meeting. Outstanding Ph.D. student award of the Israel Chemical Society (2008).
Kavoori Sethumadavan Nagapriya (Postdoc) Feinberg Dean’s Fellowship (100%)
Project title “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”
Rachel Gabai-Malka (Postdoc)
Project title: “Surface-Directed Self Assembled Nanosystems”.
Tohar Yarden (M.Sc.)
Project title: “Functional Nano-serpentines”
Nitzan Shadmi (M.Sc.)
Project title: "Self-organization of Complex Nanotube Structures"
National and International Collaborators

Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Dr. Gene Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Prof. Charles M. Lieber, Harvard, USA
Prof. Ado Jorio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Bello Horizonte, Brazil
Prof. Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester, USA
Prof. David Tománek, University of Michigan, USA
Languages

Spanish: 3 mother tongue (reading, writing, speaking)
Hebrew: 3 almost mother-tongue level (r,w,s)
English: 3 fluent (r,w,s)
French: 3 fluent (r,w,s)
Catalan: 3 fluent (r,w,s)
Portuguese: 2 advanced (r,s)
Arabic: 1 basic (literary and spoken)

Personal Details
Name:	Ernesto Joselevich
Academic degree:	Associate Professor
Date and place of birth:	March 3, 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Citizenship:	Argentina, Spain, Israel permanent residence
Marital status:	Married + 4
Contact information:	Department of Materials and Interfaces Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Tel. +972-8-9342350 Fax: +972-8-9344138 (Department) Personal home page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/ernesto E-mail : ernesto.joselevich@weizmann.ac.il

Education
1998 - 2000	Postdoctoral associate at Harvard University with Prof. Charles M. Lieber, working on nanostructured materials (including carbon nanotubes), chemical force microscopy and biophysical chemistry
1997	Postdoctoral period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Prof. Itamar Willner, setting up scanning probe microscopy facilities (AFM, STM, NSOM and Electrochemistry)
1996	Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1990 - 1995	Graduate studies in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Itamar Willner. Title of thesis: "Control of Photochemical Processes by means of Organized Systems and Microheterogeneous Environments"
1989	B.Sc. degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude (average grade: 95), from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1986 - 1989	B.Sc. studies in Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1985 - 1986	First year of B.Sc. studies in Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
1981 - 1985	High School in mathematics and physics section
Employment History
2008 -	Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute, Department of Materials and Interfaces (from November 2008).
2001 - 2008	Senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Department of Materials and Interfaces (from April 2001).
Academic Administration
2001 - 2006	Coordinator of Materials Research Seminars, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute
2005 - 2006	Equipment Review Committee for the Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute
2003 - 2004	Delegate of the Chemistry senior scientists at the Scientific Council, Weizmann Institute
2003	Coordinator of the Ulpana Amos De-Shalit for 1st and 2nd year Chemistry students
Teaching Eperience
Courses taught at the Weizmann Institute:
2003 – 2006	Physical Chemistry 1B (Kinetics)
2002	Masters Seminar Course
Courses taught before present appointment (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
1992 - 1995	Assistant teacher of Organic Chemistry for 2nd-year Chemistry students
1990 - 1994	Tutor of Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory for 3rd-year Chemistry students
1990 - 1992	Assistant teacher of Organic Chemistry for 1st-year Biology students
1990 - 1992	Tutor of Organic Chemistry Laboratory for 1st-year Medicine students
Prizes and Awards
2007	Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize
2006	Weizmann Scientific Council Award “for his discovery of the phenomenon of carbon nanotubes growth with a specific direction and the understanding of the growth mechanism”
2001	Bergman memorial award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
2001	Alon Fellowship for young scientist in Israel (for 3 years)
1997	Academic training fellowship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a postdoctoral stay at Harvard
1995	Haas Family Award for outstanding achievements in the Ph.D. research
1991	Wolf Foundation Award for outstanding achievements in the M.Sc. research
1989	Rector's Award for outstanding achievements in the B.Sc. studies
1989	Dean's List of Excellency (3rd year B.Sc.)
1988	Dean's List of Excellency (2rd year B.Sc.)
1987	Mention of Honor of the Knesset (The Israeli Parliament) for new immigrant’s achievements in the first year of B.Sc. studies. Ceremony held at the Knesset
Conferences
Invited talks at international meetings:
2007	Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (U.S.A.), November 26-30: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”
2006	Nanotube ‘06, Nagano (Japan), June 18-23: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization” (plenary talk)
2006	Frontiers Winterschool – Understanding Processes at the Molecular Level, Lenzewrheide (Switzerland), March 18-23: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”
2005	NanoteC05 – Nanotechnology in Carbon and Related Materials, University of Sussex, Brighton (U.K.), August 31 – September 3: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”
2005	International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State, UCLA, Los Angeles (U.S.A), July 24-29: “Nanotube Formation along Atomic Steps”
2002	12^th International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry, Eilat (Israel), October 6-11: “Carbon Nanotubes as Building Blocks in Molecular Electronics”
2001	6^th International Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies, Eilat (Israel), September 2-6: “Vectorial Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for Molecular Electronics”
Invited talks at binational meetings:
2007	Dutch-Israel Symposium – Molecular Materials, November 18-20, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel): “From Molecular Epitaxy to Nanotube Epitaxy”
2006	India-Israel Symposium - From Molecules to Composites: Interdisciplinary approaches to Materials Research, May 4-8, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre, Bangalore (India): “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”
2006	France-Israel Symposium on Diamond, Carbon Nano-structures and Related Materials, March 6-7, Ein Bokek (Israel): “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization”
2005	Nanotubes and Nanowires - Germany-Israel Foundation Meeting, June 20-23, Dresden (Germany): “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”
2002	Nanochemistry 2002 - Germany-Israel Workshop on the Fabrication, Characterization and Properties of Nanomaterials, November 17-18, Rimonim-Neptune Hotel, Eilat (Israel): “Carbon nanotubes as building blocks for molecular electronics” (Member of organizing committee)
2001	Japan-Israel Binational Workshop on Diamond Science & Technology, December 6-7, Kochi University of Technology, Tosayamada-cho, Kochi (Japan): “Carbon nanotubes as building blocks for molecular electronics”
2001	Switzerland-Israel Meeting, UCSB-WIS-ETHZ-EPFL Workshop on Advanced Materials, September 9-13, Crêt-Berard, Puidoux, Lausanne (Switzerland): “Vectorial growth of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics”
2000	Netherlands-Israel Meeting, Molecular Avenues in Material and Surface Science, October 23-25, University of Twente (The Netherlands):“Vectorial growth of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics circuitry and computing”
Contributed talks at international meetings:
2007	American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, (U.S.A.), March 2007: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes”
2006	Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco (U.S.A.), April 16-21: “Epitaxial Approaches to Carbon Nanotube Organization” (talk selected “of special note”)
2005	American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, (U.S.A.), March 2005: “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”
2004	Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston: “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”
2000	Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (U.S.A.), November 27- December 1: “Vectorial Growth of Carbon Nanotubes”
Poster presentations at international meetings:
2007	Nanotube ‘07, Ouro Preto, (Brazil), March 2007: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes” (1st poster), “Nanotube Epitaxy” (2nd poster).
2007	International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, Kirchberg in Tirol, (Austria), March 2007: “Torsional Electromechanics of Carbon Nanotubes” (1st poster), “Nanotube Epitaxy” (2nd poster).
2007	American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, (U.S.A.), March 2007: “Nanotube Epitaxy”.
2005	Nanotube ‘05, Gothenburg (Sweden), June 26 – July 1: “Atomic Step-Templated Formation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Patterns”.