Academic Background:

1974-1978 Ph.D. Thesis, Physical Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1978-1980 Post-doctoral fellow, U.C. Berkeley, Physical Chemistry

1980-1981 Staff Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley

1981-1983 Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1983-1986 Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1986- Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research Activities:

Supramolecular Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Molecular Self-Assembly, Molecular and Biomolecular Machines, Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics, Sensors and Biosensors, Electronics and Photophysics of Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots, Functionalized Monolayers, Molecular Optoelectronics, Optobioelectronics, Photocatalysis, Photoinduced Electron Transfer, Artificial Photosynthesis, Sensors and Biosensors, Biofuel Cells.

Awards and Honors:

Bergmann Award - 1986

Honorary Professor, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan - 1991

Kolthoff Award - 1993

AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellow - 1996

Sandoz-Novartis Award - 1997

The Kaye Innovations Award – 1998, 2004

Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation – 1998

Israel Chemical Society Award – 2001

Israel Prize in Chemistry – 2002

Member of The Israel Academy of Sciences – 2002

The Klachky Family Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science – 2003

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts - 2004

Honorary Guest Professorship, Tsinghua Univesity, Beijing, China – 2005

Honorary Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China – 2007

Rothschild Prize in Chemistry – 2008

EMET Prize in Chemistry (under the auspices of the Prime Minister of Israel) – 2008

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK – 2009

Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina – 2009

ACS Nano Lectureship Award – 2013

Grand Professor –Technical University Dresden, CFAED program – 2014 and 2015

Thomson Reuters – Highly Cited Researcher and listed in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds –

2014 and 2015

Publications:

Over 725 papers and 30 patents.

h-index (Web of Science): 114

h-index (Google Scholar): 129