The Chemical and Biological Physics Department provides an interdisciplinary home to a broad range of topics spanning Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
The Department is composed by over 20 tenured and tenure-track physicists and chemists, evenly split between theorists and experimentalists…

Head of department

Prof. Michael Elbaum
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  • Alexandra Tayar
    Experimental Soft matter physics and biophysics
  • Michael Elbaum
    Cryo-Electron Microscopy Development; Biological Physics of the Cell
  • Omer Yaffe
    Optical spectroscopy and Solid-State Physics
  • Samuel Safran
    Biological Physics and Soft Matter Theory
  • Ephraim Shahmoon
    Collective Quantum Optics
  • Baran Eren
    Surface Physics and Chemistry‎
  • Amit Finkler
    Quantum-enhanced sensing
  • David Tannor
    Quantum Mechanics effects on the motion of molecules
  • Oren Tal
    Molecular Quantum Conductors
  • Itamar Procaccia
    Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems
  • Yehiam Prior
    Non-Linear Optics
  • Ron Naaman
    Molecular electronics
  • Gershon Kurizki
    Quantum Optics and Thermodynamics
  • Gilad Haran
    Single-molecule Biophysics and Molecular Plasmonics
  • Nir Gov
    Physics problems in Biology, Soft-Matter & other systems
  • Daniella Goldfarb
    EPR spectroscopy in Biophysics and Structural Biology
  • Lucio Frydman
    New techniques in NMR
  • Eli Pollak
    Quantum Dynamics in Real Time
  • Ilya Averbukh
    Light Matter interactions
  • Eran Bouchbinder
    Condensed-matter Physics, Materials Physics and Biophysics
  • Barak Dayan
    Quantum Optics - single photons & single atoms.