Understanding the diversity of planetary atmospheres inside and outside of the Solar System. Focus areas include Earth’s atmospheric dynamics and climate change, vortex and storm dynamics, gas planets' atmosphere/interior dynamics, probing planetary atmospheres by spacecraft radio-science measurements and atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
Investigating the formation, evolution, and dynamics of planets and moons. Searching for ice in the Solar System and exoplanets beyond.
Developing theoretical models for cell motility, collective cell migration and collective behavior of animal groups.
We are a theoretical physics group focusing on various non-equilibrium problems in condensed-matter physics, materials physics and biophysics from a continuum perspective. We use a variety of theoretical and computational tools, along with close interactions with experimental groups.
Prof. Jan M.L. (Gershom) Martin
Computational quantum chemistry: highly accurate wave function ab initio benchmarks; development of novel DFT functionals; applications to mechanistic and supramolecular chemistry.
Developing and applying computational and experimental methods to design and discover new compounds for applications in chemical biology and drug discovery.
Our group's research is focused on understanding unique properties and behavior of materials and interfaces, using first principles quantum mechanical calculations based mostly on density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory.
The Computational Chemistry Unit provides computational support for all experimental groups at the Weizmann Institute and at other universities in Israel. Research in the Unit includes questions in all fields of chemistry. Past projects have involved looking at reaction mechanisms and understanding the properties of molecules. Please contact me if you are interested in incorporating computations into your research projects.
