Prof. Abraham Nitzan

Theoretical studies of activation, relaxation and energy transfer processes in molecular systems.

Transport phenomena in condensed phases and on surfaces.

Theory of chemical reaction rates in condensed phases.

Ionic diffusion and conductivity in solid ionic conductors, in polymers and in confined systems.

Electromagnetic and electronic interactions in small particles and clusters

Theoretical investigations of charge transfer and charge separation phenomena in condensed phases, at interfaces and in nano-junctions.

Molecular electronics.

Numerical simulations of relaxation and transport processes.

Numerical simulations of quantum mechanical processes.

B.Sc. Summa cum laude, Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1961-1964

M.Sc. Summa cum laude, Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1964-1965

Ph.D. Summa cum laude, Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, 1970-1972

Research Associate, Chemistry, MIT, 1972-1974

Research Associate, Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago, 1974-1975

Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Northwestern Univ, 1974-1975

Associate Professor, Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 1975-1981

Professor, Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 1981-Present

Chairman, Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 1984-1987

Professor, Chemistry, Weizmann Institute, 1990-1991

Dean, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1995-1998

Director, Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University,  2003-2015

Adjunct Professor, Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2006-2012

Visiting Professor, Physics, Freie University Berlin, 2014-2015

Pofessor, Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2015

APS Fellow, American Physical Society, 1990

Riwka (nee Schechter) and Iser Kodesz Chair of Chemical Dynamics, Tel Aviv University, 1992

Alexander von Humboldt Award, Germany, 1995

Kolthoff Prize, Technion, Israel, 1995

Israel Chemical Society Award, Israel Chemical Society, 2003

AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advances of Science, 2004

Manchot Award, Technical University, Munich, 2004

Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006

John Morrow Visiting Fellowship, Duke University, USA, 2007

ERC Advanced Grant, European Research Council, 2008

Schulich visiting lecturer, Technion, Israel, 2008

Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2009

Israel Prize in Chemistry, Israel, 2010

Honorary Doctorate (Dr. Honoris Causa), Univ. of Konstanz, Germany, 2010

Thomson Reuters list of top 100 chemists over the period 2000-2010 as ranked by the impact of their published research, 2011

Mulliken Lecture & medal, University of Chicago, USA, 2011

EMET Prize, Israel, 2012

Ralph and Lucy Hirschmann Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 2014

Israel Chemical Society Medal, 2015

Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences, 2015