Academic Degrees:
1986: B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, cum laude
1988: M.Sc., Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, cum laude
1992: Ph.D., Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, summa cum laude. Thesis supervisor: Professor Avishai Dekel.
Academic positions:
1992-1993: Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Particle Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.
1993-1996: PPARC research fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK.
1996-1998: Postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck Institut fu=er Astrophysik, Garching bei Mu ̈nchen.
1998-2003: Senior lecturer, Physics Department, Technion, Haifa.
2003-2010: Associate professor, Physics Department, Technion, Haifa.
2010- :Professor, Physics Department, Technion, Haifa.
Technion Activities:
2006-2007: representative of physics at the Senate of the Technion.
2007-2008: vice dean for graduate studies
2012-2013: director of the Lewiner Institute of Theoretical Physics.
2015-2017: elected member of the standing committee for appointment pro- motion of senior academic staff.
2019- : coordinator of the Institute for Exact Sciences- Guangdong- Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
2020- : head of professional committees for tenure and promotion of senior academic staff.
Visiting positions:
2004: Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2004: Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge UK
2005: Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2005: Visiting Professor at the National Observatory of Japan, Tokyo
2013: Distinguished visitor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2019: Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Selected talks:
- Keynote talk, IAU Symposium “The Zeldovich Universe”, Tallinn, Estonia
- Keynote talk, “Frontiers of Fundamental Physics”, Marseille, France
- Keynote: “Drifting through the Cosmic Web: Evolution of Galaxies within the Large Scale Structure”, AIX-France
Joint Colloquium of the Astronomical Community of Munich, Garching, Germany - The Hans-Jensen Lecture, Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days, Heidelberg, Germany
- The Higgs Colloquium, Edinburgh.
Research grants:
1999-2002: Israeli Science Foundation grant for research on “Cosmology with the Lyalpga Forest”.
2000-2004: Coordinator of the Technion node of the European Research Training Network for research on
“Physics of the Inter-Galactic-Medium”.
2001-2004: PI German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) grant, jointly with A. Dekel (Hebrew University)
and S.D.M. White (Max-Planck, Garching), for research on “Cosmological Dynamics of Dark Matter, Baryons and Galaxies”.
2002-2003: Grant by the Norman and Helen Asher Space Research Institute for research on “Dynamics of the Local Group of Galaxies”.
2003-2005: US Israeli Binational Foundation for research on “Cosmology with the SLOAN Digital Sky Survey QSO Sample”, jointly with R. Sheth (Pittsburgh).
2007-2009: PI German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) grant, jointly with A. Dekel (Hebrew University), S.D.M. White (Max-Planck, Garching) and R. Somerville (Max-planck, Heidelberg) for research on “Interfacing Theory of Galaxy Formation
with observations”.
2009-2013: PI Israeli Science Foundation “Energetic feedback in the Intracluster Intergalactic media”.
2010-2012: PI German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) grant, jointly with A. Dekel (Hebrew University) and A. Burkert (Muenchen University) for research on “High redshift galaxy formation in the standard cosmology”.
2013-2017: PI Israeli Science Foundation “Cosmology through Signatures of Large Scale Motions”.
2013-2018: Scientific Management Member, Israeli Science Foundation, I-CORE “Astrophysics: from Big Bang to Planets”.
2018-2022: PI Israeli Science Foundation “Dynamics of the large scale structure of the Universe”.