Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob - CV

Academic Education

• B.Sc. Physics, 1969-1971 & 1974-1975, Tel Aviv University

• M.Sc. Physics, 1975-1978, Magna cum laude "The Dynamics of Coupled Josephson Junctions.”, Thesis advisor: Prof. Y. Imry, Tel Aviv University System Analyst Computer Science, 1974-1976, Technion

• Ph.D. Physics, 1978-1982, Summa cum laude “The Dynamics of Coupled Josephson Junctions in the Presence of Thermal Fluctuations.”, Thesis advisors: Prof. Y. Imry and Prof. D. J. Bergman, Tel Aviv University

Employments

• 1972 - 1978 Military service, Israeli Navy, Captain

• 1978 - 1980 Civilian working for the Navy Intelligence (Major rank)

• 1976 - 1979 Teaching Assistant in Physics Tel Aviv University

• 1979 - 1981 Instructor in Physics Tel Aviv University

• 1980 - 1981 Advisor of Course Development, The Open University

Academic Positions

• 1981 - 1984 Post Doctoral Fellow, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

• 1984 - 1989 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Michigan

• 1986 - 1987 Senior Lecturer in Physics, Tel Aviv University

• 1987 - 1992 Associate Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University

• 1992 - Present Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University

• 1997 - 2000 Head, Department of Condensed Matter, Tel Aviv University

• 2003 - Present Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems, Tel Aviv University

Special Appointments and Services

• 1998 - 2001 Vice-President of the Israel Physical Society

• 2001 - 2004 President of the Israel Physical Society

• 1998 - 2001 Chair of the Steering Committee, Tel Aviv University Center for Nano-science and Nano-technology

• 2001 - 2003 Member, The advisory committee, Tel Aviv University Center for Nano-science and Nano-technology

• 2004 - 2005 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Indiana University

• 2004 - 2005 Visitor, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego

• 2005 - Present Member, Inter Senate Committee of Israel Research Universities

• 2007 - Present Member, Board of Governors Hemda Center for High School Exact Science Education

• 2007 – Present Fellow, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego

• 2009 - Present Member, Board of Governors Tel Aviv University

• 2009 - Present Member, International Advisory Board, Mexican Institute of Complex Systems

• 2010 – Present Chair, The Advisory Council of High School Physics Education, Ministry of Education

Honors and Awards

• Landau Research Prize (1978)

• David Ben-Gurion Research Prize (1981)

• Haim Weizmann Post Doctoral Fellowship (1981-1982)

• The Alon Fellowship (1984-1987)

• Landau Research Prize (1986)

• Bat-Sheva De Rothschild Research Fellowship (1988-1990)

• The Siegle Research Prize of the Israel Academy (1996)

• Fellow of the World Institute of Physics

• Fellow of the American Physical Society

• SciAm 50 Achievements Award (2007) – The Scientific American Award for the 50 most important achievements in science and technology for the Development of the First Neuro-Memory-Chip

• Cavaliere (Knight) dell'Ordine della Stella della solidarietà Italiana (Since 2008)

Patents

• "System For and Method of Positioning Cells and Determining Cellular Activity Thereof", at final stage of approval Inventors: Ben-Jacob Eshel, Segev Ronen, Baruchi Itay, Hulata Eyal, Shapira Yoash, Hanein Yael and Gabay Tamir (2010)

• "DNA-based electronics" US Patent 7176482 Inventors: Ben-Jacob Eshel, Hermon Ziv and Caspi, ShaY (2007)

• "Control of body electrical activity by magnetic fields" US Patent 7160240 Inventors: Frimerman Aaron and Ben-Jacob Eshel (2007)

Books and Special Reports

• Ben-Jacob, Eshel "Thermodynamics", (In Hebrew, 322 pages), Tel Aviv University Press Dionun (1980)

• Ben-Jacob Eshel and Levine Dan "The Logic Foundations of Interfacing Smart Computer Systems in Information Processes of Intelligence Units" Research Report 26/80 Submitted to the IDF Navy Intelligence (1980)

Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students

• Prof. Peter Garik - School of Education Boston University

• Dr. Eli Raz - Head of Physics Group Ort Braude College

• Prof. Dirk Helbing - ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology of Modeling and Simulations Member of the German Academy of Science

• Prof. Barbara Drossel - Inst. of Solid State Physics, Uni. of Darmstadt

• Dr. Inbal Hecht – Researcher, Tel Aviv University

• Dr. Yael Helman – Senior researcher, Hebrew University

• Dr. Sharron Bransburg-Zabary System Immunology

• Dr. Alin Finkelshtein Cooperative Behavior of Bacteria

• Dr. Inbal Hecht Cell motility

• Dr. Paolo Bonifazi Neuroscience

• Dr. Miri Goldin Neuroscience

• Dr. Yoash Shapira Econophysics

Doctoral Students

• Kiran Mullen – Physics, 1990, Univ. of Michigan

• Pradipkumar Ramanlal – Physics, 1989, Univ. of Michigan (Co-supervised with L. Sander)

• Mark Amman – Physics, 1990, Univ. of Michigan

• David Grier – Physics, 1989 Univ. of Michigan (Co-supervised with L. Sander)

• Richard Wilkins - Physics, 1990, Univ. of Michigan

• Andras Czirok – Physics, 2000, Eotvos Univ. (Co-supervised with T. Vicsek)

• Adiel (Ady) Stern – Physics, 1993, Tel Aviv Univ. (Co-supervised with Y. Imry)

• Ofer Shohat - Physics, 1996, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Ziv Hermon - Physics, 1996, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Raz Kopferman - Physics, 1996, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Glen Gutman - Physics, 1996, Tel Aviv Univ. (Co-supervised with D.J. Bergman)

• Alexander Shnairman - Physics, 1998, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Ira Rotman - Physics, 2000, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Ido Golding - Physics, 2002, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Ronen Segev - Physics, 2003, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Luana Sheffer - Physics, 2003, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Shay Caspi - Physics, 2004, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Orit Sheffi-Gross - Physics, 2005, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Inon Cohen – Applied Mathematics, 2007, Tel Aviv Univ. (Co-supervised with Z. Scuss)

• Pablo Blinder – Life Science, 2007, Ben Gurion Univ. (Co-supervised with D. Baranes)

• Vladislav Volman - Physics, 2007, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Itay Baruchi - Physics, 2008, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Liel Rubinsky – Bipsychology, Tel Aviv Univ. (Co-Supervised with J. Lavee and H. Frank)

• Einat Fuchs - Life Science, 2009, Tel Aviv Univ. (Co-supervised with A. Ayali)

• Andreas Doncic - Bio-Medical Engineering, 2009, Tel Aviv Univ. (Cosupervised with S. Einav)

• Nadav Raichman – Physics, 2009, Tel Aviv Univ.

• Tamir Gabay - Electrical Engineering, 2009, Tel Aviv Univ. (Co-supervised with Y. Hanein)

• Eyal Hulata – Physics, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Maurizio De-Pitta' - Electricity Engineering, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Y. Hanien)

• Itai Doron – Physics, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Tomer Gazit – Brain Research, Bar Ilan Uni. (Co-supervised with M. Teicher)

• Dalit Roth – Medical Scinces, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Asaf Madi – Medical Sciences, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Z. Grossman)

• Alexandra Sirota – Medical Sciences, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Ziv yekutieli – Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Mark Shein – Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Y. Hanein)

• Ya'akov Keissar – Medical Physics, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with R. Cohen, MIT)

• Dror Kenett - Physics, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Assaf Zaritsky – Computer Science, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Ilan Tzarfati and Lior Wolf)

• Merav Catalogna – Bio-medical Engineering, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Uri Nevo and Zamir Halpern)

• Asi Shklarsh – Computer Science, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Arnon Avron)

• Ari Lev-Or – Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with Avi Gover)

• Andras Czirok – Physics, 1996, Eotvos University (Co-supervised with T. Vicsek) 

• Ofer Shochet – Physics, 1993, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Yuval Asavi - Physics, 1997, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Ronen Segev – Physics, 1997, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Yonatan Kozlovsky – Physics, 1997, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Vladislav Volman – Physics, 2003, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Arnon Arazi – 2004, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with U. Yechiel)

• Itay Baruchi – Physics, 2004, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Itai Doron – Physics, 2006, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Rami Fogch – Physics, 2006, The Weizmann Inst. of Science, (Co-supervised with N. davidson)

• Mark Shein – Physics, 2007, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Avner Cohen – Bio-Medical Engineering, 2007, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with S. Einav)

• Hanan Steingrat – Electricity Engineering, 2008, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with H. Messer-Yaron)

• Eitan Pri – Bio-Medical Engineering, 2008, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with H. Grinspan)

• Noga yaniv – Neurobiology, 2008, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with R. Stein)

• Yael Katsir – Chemistry, Bar Ilan Uni. (Co-supervised with I. Mastai)

• Rotem Leshem – Medical Science, 2008, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with I. Ofek)

• Noah Levine-Small – Life Sciences, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with A. Barzilai)

• Oren Kalishman, Physics, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Yael Jacob, Medical Sciences, Tel Aviv Uni. (Co-supervised with T. Handler)

• Meirav Hasidi, Medical Sciences, Tel Aviv Uni.

Masters Students

• Dionis Teshler, Computer Science, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Mati Goldberg – Physics, Tel Aviv Uni.

• Leenoy Meshulam – Biology (Co-supervised with A. Barzilai)

• Liron Mendelson – Electrical Engineering

• Nir Atzmon – Electrical Engineering