Mar 19, 2015 By: admin
Dr. Anatoly Frenkel, professor of physics at , has been named Weston Visiting Professor in the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
He will be hosted by Dr. Igor Lubomirsky, professor at Weizmann, who has been Frenkel鈥檚 collaborator for more than 10 years. Together, Frenkel and Lubomirsky seek to understand how important materials used in advanced technological applications鈥攁s diverse as fuel cells, audio speakers, sonar detectors and portable cameras鈥攆unction. Their work focuses in particular on materials that develop high levels of mechanical stress in response to electric fields.
鈥淭he Weizmann Institute is a unique institution that attracts top talent and is the home base of three Nobel Prize-winning researchers,鈥 said Frenkel. 鈥淥ver the years, I have collaborated with seven Weizmann researchers and coauthored 20 articles with them, hence my long-term commitment to the place. With the resources that will be available to me through this fellowship, I will be able to visit Professor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute for two to three weeks every year, discuss results obtained in joint experiments--some of which are currently under way--and plan future work.鈥
He added, 鈥淭his collaboration also helps foster academic exchange between our group members and I am looking forward to involving Stern and students in this research. In the recent past, two Stern students were part of this collaboration, and coauthored our articles in Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters, the top physics journals.鈥
鈥淧rofessor Frenkel's growing international reputation as a research scientist is attested to by this new honor,鈥 said Dr. Karen Bacon, the Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of Stern College. 鈥淎nd his reputation as a caring and inspiring mentor is evidenced by the undergraduate women of Stern College who credit him, and the Physics Department he has built, for their passion for the sciences.鈥
He will be hosted by Dr. Igor Lubomirsky, professor at Weizmann, who has been Frenkel鈥檚 collaborator for more than 10 years. Together, Frenkel and Lubomirsky seek to understand how important materials used in advanced technological applications鈥攁s diverse as fuel cells, audio speakers, sonar detectors and portable cameras鈥攆unction. Their work focuses in particular on materials that develop high levels of mechanical stress in response to electric fields.
鈥淭he Weizmann Institute is a unique institution that attracts top talent and is the home base of three Nobel Prize-winning researchers,鈥 said Frenkel. 鈥淥ver the years, I have collaborated with seven Weizmann researchers and coauthored 20 articles with them, hence my long-term commitment to the place. With the resources that will be available to me through this fellowship, I will be able to visit Professor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute for two to three weeks every year, discuss results obtained in joint experiments--some of which are currently under way--and plan future work.鈥
He added, 鈥淭his collaboration also helps foster academic exchange between our group members and I am looking forward to involving Stern and students in this research. In the recent past, two Stern students were part of this collaboration, and coauthored our articles in Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters, the top physics journals.鈥
鈥淧rofessor Frenkel's growing international reputation as a research scientist is attested to by this new honor,鈥 said Dr. Karen Bacon, the Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of Stern College. 鈥淎nd his reputation as a caring and inspiring mentor is evidenced by the undergraduate women of Stern College who credit him, and the Physics Department he has built, for their passion for the sciences.鈥
