Prof. Alexander Gerber

Prof. Alexander Gerber works on a number of subjects in experimental solid state physics, including: disordered and granular metals and superconductors in high magnetic fields, nano-scale magnetism, quantum effects in ferromagnets, heterogeneous magnetic systems, extraordinary Hall effect, spintronics and Hall effect spintronics, magnetic semiconductors, topological Hall effect, applications of Hall effect spintronics for high sensitivity magnetic sensors, random access memory and high selectivity gas detection.

Research achievements include: Seven granted and pending patents on magnetic sensors, multi-bit random access memory and magnetic gas detection.

• B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1979

• M.Sc. in Physics, Tel Aviv University, 1984

• Ph.D. in Physics, Tel Aviv University, 1989

• Post-Doc researcher,  Laboratoire Louis Neel, CNRS, Grenoble, France, 1989-1991

• Post-Doc researcher, Van der Waals - Zeeman Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1991-1993

• Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, 1993-2000

• Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2000-2011

• Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University, 2011-present

• Chateaubriand Fellow, 1989

• NCRD - CNRS Fellow, 1990

• Igal Alon Fellow, 1993

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1999