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Prof. Leeor Kronik
Prof. Leeor Kronik
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Prof. Leeor Kronik
Office +972-8-934-4993
Email leeor.kronik@weizmann.ac.il
Overview
Activities in the Department span a wide range of topics from soft, composite and hard materials to energy research, nanoscience, and biological materials. A unifying theme is the study of material functionality and its relation to fundamental properties at multiple scales. These properties may be mechanical, structural, chemical, electronic, magnetic, optical, and more. Some examples are:
How do shapes and sizes of nm-sized particles affect their properties?
How can we tune the properties of solar cells by manipulating their material interfaces?
How does friction in knee and hip joints depend on polyelectrolytes that lubricate them?
How can we design self-assembling (bio)chemical systems?
THE RESEARCH IS BASED ON AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, and indeed the scientists bring complementary experience in chemistry and physics, including both theory and experiment.
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Prof. Israel Bar-Joseph
Prof. Israel Bar-Joseph
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Prof. Israel Bar-Joseph
Office +972-8-934-4534
Email hbar@weizmann.ac.il
Overview
The scientific activity of the department is mainly concentrated around the experimental and theoretical research in quantum solid state physics. It includes experimental research of mesoscopic physics, quantum Hall physics, topological states of matter, high temperature superconductors, two and one dimensional superconductors, metal-insulator transition, carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, and study of material growth. The theoretical efforts concentrate on similar subjects with added work on disordered materials, cold atoms, and quantum optics.
The Braun Center for sub micron research is an integral part of the department. It is a modern and well equipped center, with growth (three MBE's) and characterization systems, which allows to conduct experiments on sub micron semiconductor structures under high magnetic fields, conventional and high temperature superconductors, and nanowires made of carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires.
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Prof. Elisha Moses
Prof. Elisha Moses
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Prof. Elisha Moses
Office +972-8-934-3139
Email elisha.moses@weizmann.ac.il
Overview
The Department of Physics of Complex Systems has research programs in fundamental and applied physics. Research in optics and atomic physics includes nonlinear optics, ultra fast optics and high harmonic generation, quantum optics, slow light, descrete optics, nano optics and nonlinear microscopy, laser cooling and trapping of atoms and ions, studies of Bose Einstein condensation, precision spectroscopy and quantum information processing. Theoretical and experimental research in soft condensed matter is concentrated on equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, clustering of data, bioinformatics and systems biology, electrokinetics of ions and charged particles in low dielectric liquids, colloids, soft materials and complex fluids. Experimental and theoretical hydrodynamics concentrates on turbulence, spatio-temporal chaos, turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection, liquids at interfaces, droplet impact, sedimentation and dynamics of single micro-objects, such as polymers, vesicles, capsules and hydrodynamics of their solutions. Turbulence theory is developed in general and in applications to cloud physics. Classical and quantum chaos, statistics of nodal lines in quantum systems and turbulence are studied theoretically. Mathematical and computational methods for archaeological research are developed. Theoretical physical biology deals with modeling living information systems, their molecular components and the way they evolve. Experimental bio-physics deals with bio-molecules, neural cultures, neurophysics, physics of the brain, physics of bio-systems and decision making in ant colonies.
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Prof. Ran Budnik
Prof. Ran Budnik
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Prof. Ran Budnik
Office +972-8-934-4462
Email ran.budnik@weizmann.ac.il
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The Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics is engaged in both experimental and theoretical research, in various directions. These include elementary particle physics, field theory, string theory, theoretical astrophysics, observational astrophysics, particle astrophysics, relativistic heavy ion physics, molecular physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, and radiation detection physics.
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Prof. Yehiel Zick
Mode of action of galectin-8, a mammalian lectin
The molecular basis of Insulin Resistance: a Phosphorylation based Uncoupling of Insulin Signalling
The insulin receptor as a model system for transmembrane signaling: Mode of interaction of the insulin receptor with its downstream effector molecules.
Mammalian lectins as regulators of cell adhesion, cell growth, and apoptosis.
Receptor trafficking: Regulation of endocytosis and recycling of the insulin receptor.
Role of Galectin-8 in bone remodeling
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Prof. Elazar Zelzer
the roles of the VEGF pathway in different steps during skeletal development.
Studying the role of mechanical load on embryonic bone development
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Prof. Eli Zeldov
Scanning nanoSQUID magnetic microscopy
Scanning nanoscale thermal imaging
Imaging of dissipation mechanisms in quantum and topological systems
Magnetism and dissipation in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene
Quantum anomalous Hall effect
Imaging of current and dissipation in the quantum Hall effect
Berry curvature magnetism in topological systems
Magnetism at oxide interfaces
Vortex matter and dynamics
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Prof. Ofer Zeitouni
Applications in nonlinear filtering, Communication and Information theory
Logarithmically correlated random fields
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Prof. Daniel Zajfman
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Collaboration with:
Oded Heber
Ion trapping, storage rings, photodissociation, photodetachement, cluster physics, laboratory astrophysics
Science Education
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Dr. Barak Zackay
gravitational wave data analysis
Collaboration with:
Matias Zaldarriaga - IAS princeton
Tejaswi Venumadhav - UCSB
Searching for binary black holes
Exact signal processing -
Methods for exact determination of statistical significance
Coping with changing statistical models
Robust statistics
Bayesian parameter estimation
Searching for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
Collaboration with:
Tsevi Mazeh - Tel Aviv University
High contrast imaging - Developing a novel method for directly imaging planets by using precision waveform estimation and exact statistics.
Detecting transiting planets -
Improving the search for transiting planets in all regimes (long-periods, short-periods) and around binary stars.
Binary planets and exo-moons
Exact population modeling of exoplanets.
Precision photometry - using advanced statistical methods for cancelling systematic noise in ground and space based precision photometry campaigns.
Collaboration with:
Thomas Prince - Caltech
Victoria Kaspi - McGill university
Searching for pulsars near the black hole in the galactic center
Searching for pulsars in relativistic binary systems
Lattice algorithms for solving the timing problem
Searching the micro-second radio sky for fast radio bursts
Solving the periodicity of gamma-ray pulsars and FRBs using the lattice algorithms
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