About University:
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary basic research institutions in the natural and exact sciences. It is located in Rehovot, Israel, just south of Tel Aviv.
The Weizmann Institute is comprised of approximately 250 experimental and theoretical research groups across five faculties—Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Physics. The research groups are led by PIs who explore a myriad of scientific questions, often through interdisciplinary collaborations – a hallmark of the Institute.
Institute scientists were pioneers in the field of cancer research in Israel. Others planned and built the country’s first electronic computer, one of the first in the world; yet others founded the first nuclear physics department and erected a particle accelerator next door. They were the first to establish a company for transferring knowledge from academia to industry (YEDA Research and Development), and they initiated the founding of a science-based industrial park near the Institute. Today, insights that emerge from Weizmann Institute labs help provide a fundamental understanding of the human body and the universe, and lead to advances in medicine, technology and the environment.
Globally, the Weizmann Institute is ranked among the top institutions in numerous different rankings, including:
Graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science are conducted through the Feinberg Graduate School (FGS), which was established in 1958. FGS offers a unique multidisciplinary setting that enables its MSc, PhD and postdoctoral students to learn from the best principal investigators, working with recipients of numerous prestigious awards, among them Nobel laureates and Turing Award laureates, in cutting-edge research facilities. The training that our students receive later leads them to senior posts in academia, industry, government and scientific and medical research.
Lecturer
Erez Berg is a professor of theoretical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He graduated from Stanford University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Weizmann. His research interests include strongly correlated electron systems, superconductivity, and topological phases of matter
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Haim Beidenkopf is a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He graduated from Tel-Aviv university and the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a Dicke fellow at Princeton University. He is an .experimentalist, investigating Topological Quantum Matter on the atomic scale using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy
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Prof. Yuval Oreg graduated from the Weizmann Institute, carried out post-doctoral research at Harvard University and then came back as a faculty member to the Weizmann Institute. He studies theoretical physics of topological superconductivity and situations where interactions between particles create novel many-body states.
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Ady Stern is a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He graduated from Tel-Aviv university, and was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a theorist, and his research focuses on Topological Quantm Matter
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