Academic Degrees
1964 Ph.D. Weizmann Inst./Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem
Present Position
- Professor Emeritus, Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
- Holder of Nate and Beatrice Sherman Chair in Physics
Main Research Area (Present)
High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
Main Research Areas (Past)
- Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- High Energy Particle Physics
- Nuclear Physics
Academic Positions
- 2008-? Professor Emeritus, Physics Dept., Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 1972-2008 Professor, Physics Dept., Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 2007-2008 Scientifc Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2002-2003 Scientifc Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1998-1999 Scientifc Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1996,1997 Visiting Professor, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England
- 1989-1990 Scientifc Associate, NASA/GSFC, USA
- 1986-1987 Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA
- 1982-1983 Visiting Professor University of Penn. USA
- 1976-1982 Professor, Physics Dept., Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 1975-1976 Visiting Professor, Univ. of Paris, Orsay, France
- 1972-1975 Professor, Physics Dept., Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 1971-1972 Visiting Assoc. Professor, MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.
- 1968-1971 Associate Professor, Physics Dept. Technion, Haifa Israel
- 1966-1968 Research Asocciate, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Professional Appointments (Israel)
- 1997-1999 Member, Technion Board of Directors
- 1993-1995 Member, Technion Board of Directors
- 1987-1989 Member, Technion Senate Executive Council
- 1984-1989 Member, Technion Board of Directors
- 1984-1986 Chairman, Technion Faculty Association
- 1980-1982 Chairman, Physics Dept., Technion
- 1972-1977 Member, Israel Atomic Energy Committee
- 1973-1976 Member, Technion Board of Directors
- 1973-1976 Chairman, Technion Professor Association
- 1971-1975 Member, Israel Commission for High Energy Physics
Organization of International Conferences
- 12th International Workshop on Weak Interaction and Neutrinos, Ginosar,
- Sea of Galilee, Israel. April 9-14, 1989 (Member LOC).
- 1st Maryland Workshop in Astrophysics \After the First Three Minutes”
- College Park, Mayland, October 15-17, 1990 (Member LOC).
- XVI International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Eilat,
- Red Sea, Israel. May 29-June 4, 1994 (Chairman LOC).
- Landmarks in Science, June 5-6, 1994, Technion, Haifa, Israel (Chairman LOC).
Long Term Membership in Advisory Committees of Intl. Conferences
- Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics Intl. Conferences
- Topics in Astrophysics and Underground Physics Intl. Conferences
- Maryland Annual Meetings on Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Rencontres de Moriond on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Rencontres de Vietnam on High Energy Physics and Astrophysics
- Baksan Int. School on Particle Physics and Cosmology
Graduate Students
- S. Varma (Nuclear Physics) Ph.D. 1966
- C. E. Robinson (Particle Physics) Ph.D. 1967
- M. Ben-Kiki (Particle Physics) M.Sc. 1969
- A. Davidson (Particle Physics) M.Sc. 1971
- G. Berlad (Particle Physics) Ph.D. 1972
- G. Eilam (Particle Physics) Ph.D. 1972
- Z. Kirzon (Nuclear Physics) Ph.D. 1973
- A. Davidson (Particle Physics) Ph.D. 1974
- Y. Afek (Particle Physics) Ph.D. 1977
- Y. Melina (Particle Physics) M.Sc. 1987
- N. Shaviv (Astrophysics) Ph.D. 1996
Publications
Over 250 papers published in scintific journals, books and proceedings of intl. conferences.
Over 30 scienti c popular articles in various magazines.
Book: `Our Sun’ (Ma’arachot; in Hebrew) 1986.
Book: Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (North Holland) 1994 (Editor) Chapter `The New Astrophysics’ in the Anthology `The New Physics’ Cambridge University Press (Ed. G. Fraser) 2005
Chapter, `The effect of Supernova, Gamma Ray Bursts, Solar Flares and Solar Activity on the Terrestrial Environment’, in `Global Catastrophic Risks’ (Oxford University Press 2008, Ed. N. Bostrom and M. Circovic)
Book, `Astrophysics and Cosmology-The New Frontiers of Physics’, World Scientific, in preparation