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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
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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. Deborah Fass
Prof. Deborah Fass
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Prof. Deborah Fass
Office +972-8-934-3214
Email deborah.fass@weizmann.ac.il
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The functions of biological systems emerge from the structures of macromolecules, their conformational dynamics, and their higher order assembly. Determination of biomolecular structures and an understanding of their conformational changes and assembly properties provide great insights into biological mechanisms. Much of the research in structural biology at the Weizmann Institute is carried out in the Faculty of Chemistry, using a diverse set of cutting-edge research tools and methods. Investigators in the Structural Biology Department rely on the primary techniques for experimental structure determination, namely X-ray crystallography, NMR, and electron microscopy, but they also employ a variety of other specialized and emerging spectroscopic methods combined with creative molecular engineering to explore macromolecular structures, energetics, and dynamics. Experimental strategies are complemented by computational and theoretical approaches. Among the specific subjects of research in the department are ribosomes, protein chaperones, viruses, extracellular matrices, and biominerals. Processes being investigated include protein aggregation in cells, conformational dynamics of enzymes, formation of skeletal tissues, cell penetration by viruses, DNA recognition by proteins, and protein folding. Efforts are also directed towards the design of potential drugs. The wide variety of research activities in the department are based on a shared appreciation for the physical and chemical foundations of biological activities.
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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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Prof. Ada Yonath
Antibiotics targeting ribosomes
Next generation antibiotics
Human genetic diseases – structural and molecular bases
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