Forschung

Hauptarbeitsgebiete: Nonequilibrium-Thermodynamik; Statistische Mechanik; stochastische Theorien; Instabilitäten; nonlineare Systeme und chaotische Bewegungen; Turbulenz und turbulente Transportprozesse; Fraktale in der Physik

Career

• Since 2004 Director, Minerva Center for Nonlinear Physics
• 1992-2006 Adjunct Professor, NORDITA, Copenhagen,   Denmark
• 1989-2001 Dean, Faculty of Chemistry,  The Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1987-1988 Head, Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science
• Since 1985 Professor, Department of Chemical Physics,  The Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1980-1984 Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1979-1980 Senior Scientist, Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1977-1979 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology
• 1976 Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1975-1976 Teaching assistant, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1973 B.Sc. in Chemistry (with honors), Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Functions

(Selection)

•  Chairman, steering committee of a Center of Excellence of the Ministry of Science
•  Member, the committee on Statistical Physics of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics)
• Since 2009 President of the Academic Advisory Committee, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil
• 2007-2009 The committee for the Alon Fellowships (Government fellowships for returning Israeli academics after   post-doctoral training)
• 2006-2009 President, Scientific Committee of the International Center of Condensed Matter Physics,Brasilia, Brazil
• Since 2006 Member of the Board of Governors, The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (A Multi-campus     Research Program of the University of California)
• Since 2004 Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation
• Since 2000 Member, Centro Internacional de Ciencias (CIC), Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
• 2000     Member, Prize Committee for the Young European Prize in Mathematics
• 1996-2006 Member, Scientific Committee of International Center of Condensed Matter Physics, Brasilia, Brazil
• 1995-2000 UNESCO Professor in Science and Sustainable Development
• 1987/1992/1999 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Honours and Memberships

• 2012 Conferred PhD honoris causa, The University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
• 2010 The European Research Council “Advanced” grant
• 2010 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
• 2009 The Israel Prize for Physics
• 2005 The Weizmann Prize
• Since 2002 Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Since 2002 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2002 “Euroattractor 2002”, Polish Academy of Sciences for “Life achievements in Nonlinear Dynamics”, Warsaw
• 1998 The “Fiorino d’Oro”, the highest prize given by the Municipality of Florence for outstanding achievements in science, culture and human affairs
• 1995 Award of the Royal Society, UK
• 1989 The E.D. Bergman Prize Administered by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• 1982 The S. Sachs Prize
• 1977-1978 Dr. Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1977 The Aharon Katchalsky (Katzir) Prize
• 1976 The G.Y. Yashinsky Prize for Distinguished Thesis
• 1972 Israel Chemical Society Prize