Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
- Date of birth: February 23, 1939
- Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Marital status: Married; two children, four grandchildren
- Nationality and citizenship: Israeli
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Present affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel - Residence: 10 Be'eri Street, Tel Aviv 64682, Israel
- Telephone: +972-8-9344064 (office), +972-8-9343897 (secretary), + 972-3-5246576 (home)
- Fax: +972-8-9344477 (secretariat), + 972-153-3-5246576 (home)
- Email: yoseph.imry@weizmann.ac.il
- Web: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/condmat/imry/
Education |
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| 1966 | Ph.D. Degree, Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 1961 | M.Sc. Degree “With Special Distinction”, Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
Positions |
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| From 10/2007 | Professor Emeritus (with special research rights), the Weizmann Institute of Science |
| From 04/2004 | Professor on extension of service, the Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 08/2002-10/2007 |
Special advisor on Nanoscience to the President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel |
| 11/2001-04/2004 |
Head, The Maurice and Gabriella Goldschleger Center for Nanophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 08/2001-11/2001 | Visiting Professor and coordinator of the program on Nanoscience, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 10/1995-12/2002 | Head, The Albert Einstein Minerva Center for Theoretical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 06/1993-07/1993 | Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin |
| 05/1991-07/1991 | Visiting Professor and coordinator of the program on Mesoscopic Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 10/1996-12/2007 | Professor of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science (Max-Planck Professorial Chair, 1988-2009) |
| 1986 | Visiting Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University |
| 1985-1992 | Distinguished Science Advisor, IBM Research Center |
| 1973-1985 | Various visiting appointments at IBM Research, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of California |
| 1977 | Professor of Physics, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1973-1977 | Associate Professor of Physics, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1969-1973 | Senior Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1967-1969 | Research Associate, Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University |
| 1962-1967 | Research Scientist, Israel AEC, Soreq Nuclear Research Center |
| 1961-1962 | Army Service (First Lieutenant, armored corps) |
Awards, Prizes, Honors |
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| 2008 | Elected Foreign Associate, the US National Academy of Sciences |
| 2007 | Honorary member, the Indian Academy of Sciences |
| 2006 | EMET prize, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2003 | Elected Titular Member, the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris) |
| 2002 | Elected Member, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2001 | Israel Prize, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1999-2001 | Chaire Internationale de Recherche ”Blaise Pascal”, held at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris |
| 1996 | Rothschild Prize, Jerusalem, Israel |
| Fall 1996 | Lorentz Chair, University of Leiden |
| From 1994 | Active member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg) |
| 1993 | Humboldt Research award |
| 1987 | IBM Research Division Award for Research on Aharonov-Bohm Oscillation in Normal-Metal Rings |
| 1987 | Weizmann Prize, Tel-Aviv, for Research on the Theory of New Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems |
| 1983 | M. Landau Prize for Research on Transport in Disordered Metals |
| 1971 | Bat-Sheva de Rothschild award for Research |
Editorial Responsibilities |
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| 1985-1992 | Editorial Board, comments on Condensed Matter Physics |
| 01/1996-01/1999 | Divisional Associate Editor for Condensed Matter Physics, Physical Review Letters |
| 1996-2002 | Editorial Council, Annals of Physics (NY) |
International Research Coordination |
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| 04/1991-07/1991 | Co-organizer (with J. Wilkins) of program on Mesoscopic Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara |
| 12/1999 | Member, International Visiting Committee, Physics Department, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris |
| 11/2000 |
Member, International Visiting Committee, SPEC and SPSMS of the french CEA, Saclay SPEC (October 2003), SPEC (November 2007) |
| 08/2001-12/2001 | Co-organizer (with C.W.J. Beenakker, M. Crommie and P. McEuen) of program on Nanoscience, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara |
| 07/2002-08/2002 | Co-director (with R. Fazio) NATO-ASI on New Direction in Mesoscopics (towards Nanoscience), Ettore Majorana Center, Erice, Italy |
| 06/2006 | Co-organizer (with B. Barbara, G.A. Sawatzky and P.C.E. Stamp), Les Houches School on Quantum Magnetism |
| From 2006 | Honorary member of the scientific board of the Theoretical and Applied Physics Center, (CTAP), Turunc-Marmaris, Turkey |
| From 11/2006 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Russel Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion |
| From 2007 | Member of the International Advisory Committee, the Mesoscopic Theory Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan |
| From 2007 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Nano- and Microsystems Program at the Forschungcentrum Karlsruhe |
Membership in Professional Societies |
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| Member, Israeli Physical Society | |
| Fellow, American Physical Society | |
Membership in Public Organizations |
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| From 1997 | Member, Council for Peace and Security, an Association of Experts, Israel |
| 2002-2006 | Member, The Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative |
