Curriculum Vitae

May, 2023

Personal

Citizenship: Israeli
Marital Status: Married, four children

Education

1973 Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
1969 M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics at the Technion, Haifa
1966 B.Sc. in Physics at the Technion, Haifa

Academic Positions

2012 – present Professor Emeritus, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
1989 – 1990 Sabbatical leave at CERN, Geneva
1984 – 2012 Professor, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
1981 – 1982 Sabbatical leave at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1980 – 1984 Associate Professor, Nuclear Physics Department, WIS
1975 – 1980 Senior Scientist, Nuclear Physics Department, WIS
1973 – 1975 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

Professional activities and awards  

  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, 2022 – present.
  • Associate Member of NuPECC, the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee, March 2020 - present
  • Vice-Chair for the European Commission Horizon 2020 FET-OPEN RIA research program, 2017 – present
  • Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee for Particle Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, 2013 – present.   
  • Chairman of the National Committee for Nuclear Physics of the Israeli Academy of Science, 2014 – 2022.   
  • Awarded the title of “Honorary Doctor of JINR”, the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, 2020.
  • Member of the Institutional Board of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, BNL,  2000 – 2018.            
  • Member of the panel on Science Review of the Heavy Ion Research Program of the US Department of Energy National Laboratories, 2015.
  • Co-Chair of the  Heavy Ion panel of the US Department of Energy Comparative Research Review on Nuclear Physics, 2013.
  • Awarded the Medal of Honour of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, 2012. 
  • Member of the Detector Council of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, BNL, 2006 -2012.
  • Member of the Program Advisory Committee for Particle Physics of JINR, Dubna, 2009 – 2012.
  • Member of the US Department of Energy Review Panel on US participation in the ALICE experiment at CERN-LHC, 2005 – 2011.
  • Chairman of the Israel National Committee for IUPAP, 1992 – 2011.
  • Chairman of the 4th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, October 10-15, 2010, Eilat, Israel,  2008 – 2010.
  • Head of the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1999 – 2009.
  • Chairman of the 18th Particle and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC), November 9-14, 2008, Eilat, Israel, 2005 – 2008.
  • Member of the US Department of Energy Review Panel on US participation in the CMS experiment at CERN-LHC, 2006 – 2008.
  • Member of the European Commission Descartes Prize evaluation panel, 2007.
  • Member of the Program Advisory Committee for the FAIR project at GSI, Darmstadt, 2004 – 2005.
  • Member of the Executive Council of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, 2001 – 2004.
  • Member of the US Department of Energy Review Panel of the RHIC program, 2001.
  • Spokesperson of the CERES/NA45 experiment at CERN, 1993 – 1997.
  • President of the Israel Physical Society, 1990 – 1993.
  • Vice-President of the Israel Physical Society, 1987 – 1990.
  • Other professional services: Regular member of the Israel Science Foundation Committee on Particle and Nuclear Physics till 2017. Regular member of Program Advisory Committee of major international conferences in the field of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics till 2015, reviewer for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, Nuclear Instruments and Methods.

Visiting Appointments

2009 – 2020 Frequent short visits to Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna.
1997 – 2016 Frequent short visits to Brookhaven National Laboratory as an outside RHIC user.
1986 – 2003 Frequent short visits to CERN, Geneva as an outside user.
1989 – 1990 Sabbatical leave at CERN, Geneva.
1987, 1988 Summer visiting scientist – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
1984 – 1987 Visiting Scientist for short periods and user at the ATLAS accelerator facility,
Argonne National Laboratory.
1984 – 2002

Frequent short visits at the Max-Planck Institute für Kernphysik,
Heidelberg and the Physikalische Institut, Heidelberg University.
1981 – 1982 Sabbatical leave at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1980 Summer Visitor at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1978 Summer Visitor at Tandem Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1977 – 1979 Visiting Scientist for short periods at GSI, Darmstadt
1975 – 1980 Visiting Scientist for short periods at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

 

More than 350 papers published in the refereed literature. 
ORCID ID number:  0000 – 0001 – 5632 – 5697
SCOPUS ID number: 8415890600