Curriculum Vita

 

07/05/06

Prof. KEREN AMIT

ID: 058381690

Born: Jan. 7 1964, Israel.

Marital Status: Married +3.

Address: Physics Department, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel.
 

ACADEMIC DEGREES
 

1994 

Ph.D. 

Physics Department, Columbia University, USA.

1989 

B.Sc.

Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

                                            

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS


 

1/8/2003-1/8/2004

Visiting fellow

Mansfield College, Oxford University and Rutherford Appleton Lab. U.K.

6/8/2002

Associate Prof. with Tenure

Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

1/9/1997

Senior lecturer

Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of  Technology. 

1/1/1995 to 1/6/1997

Post doc

Physics department, Universite Paris-Sud (Orsay), France.

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

·                     Magnetism, including spin glasses, frustrated magnets, and magnetic quantum tunneling.

·                     Superconductivity and in particular magnetic correlations in high temperature superconductors.

·                     Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NMR/NQR).

·                     Muon Spin Resonance (MuSR).

·                     Susceptibility.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

·                     Experimental techniques in solid state physics (graduate and undergraduate)

·                     Physics 2m (undergraduate)

·                     Physics 1 (undergraduate)

·                     Statistical Physics (undergraduate)

 

PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

·                     Member of the muon beam-time scheduling panel at ISIS U.K. (1998-2001).

·                     Member in the founding committee of the International Society of Muon Spectroscopy (ISMS).

·                     Fund raising tour for the ATS in association with the new physics building.

·                     Twice member of Ph.D. committees in the Univ. Paris-Sud (Orsay) France.

·                     Referee in Phys. Rev. Lett. and Phys. Rev. B.

·                     Israel Representative to the Highly Frustrated Magnets (HFM) program of the European Science Foundation (ESF).

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

·                     Member of the American Physical Society.

HONORS

·         2005, The Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research on “Spin Glasses and Superconductivity”.

·         2004, Raymond and Miriam Klein Prize for the research on “Common Energy Scale for Magnetism and Superconductivity in Cuprates”.

·         1998, Excellent Research Project, Israeli Science Foundation.

·         1993, Brilliancy Award: Muon Spin Resonance Summer School, Maui.


GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduated

·                    2002, Zaher Salman, Ph.D., A mSR AND NMR STUDY OF QUANTUM TUNNELING OF THE MAGNETIZATION IN HIGH SPIN MOLECULES.

·                     2003, Amit Kanigel, Ph.D., INTERPLAY BETWEEN MAGNETISM AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN THE CUPRATES.

·                    2003, Shahar Levi, MSc., Development of a nuclear quadrupole based technique for measuring charge homogeneity, and its application for YBCO.

·                     2004, Oren Shafir, MSc., Probing the Quantum Nature of Fe8 High Spin Molecules Using µSR.

·                    2004, Rinat Ofer, MSc., CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CRITICAL TEMPERATURE OF CUPRATES SUPERCONDUCTORS AND THEIR MAGNETIC INTERACTION

·                    2004, Eva Segal, MSc., Frustration Driven Lattice Distortion in Y2Mo2O7.

·                    2005, Alex Zakrassov, Ph.D. Molecular Based Magnetic Materials (Secondary supervisor).

 

Theses in Progress

·                     Expected graduation 2007, Oren Shafir, Ph.D.

·                     Expected graduation 2007, Rinat Ofer, Ph.D.

·                     Expected graduation 2007, Oren Hershkovich, Ph.D.

·                     Expected graduation 2007, Yoval Lubashevsky

GRANTS

·                     1997, Israel Science Foundation (equipment), $80,000, PI: Dr. A. Keren.

·                     1997-2000, Israel Science Foundation, Spin Glasses $135,000, PI: Dr. A. Keren.

·                     1998-2001, United States Israel Binational Science Foundation, Super-Degenerate Magnets, $105,000, PI: Dr. A. Keren, Prof. Y. J. Uemura (Columbia) and Prof. G. Luke (Columbia).

·                     1999-2001, Israeli Ministry of Science, French-Israeli AFIRST grant, Molecular Magnets $62,000, PI: Dr. A. Keren, Prof. P. Mendels (Orsay), and Prof. M. Verdaguer (Jussieu).

·                     2000, Technion internal grants, $24,500, PI: Dr. A. Keren.

·                     2001-2005, Israel Science Foundation, Connection Between Various Critical Temperatures  $225,000, PI: Dr. A. Keren.

·                     2003-2005, Bichora, Nano-Magnets, $ 155,000, PI Prof. Amit Keren.

·                     2004, Internal funds for the purchasing of a SQUID magnetometer $220,000.

·                     2005-2008, Israel Science Foundation, Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity $270,000, PI Amit Keren