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Professor Boris Fainberg
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Contact Info
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329/5 |
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Phone: |
972-3-5026576 |
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Fax: |
972-3-5026619 |
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email: |
fainberg@hit.ac.il |
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Research Interests
- Dissipative and
many-body effects in optical control with intense chirped and
non-chirped pulses of molecules and semiconductors.
- Molecular
electronics, molecular and quantum dots nanojunctions.
- Nanophotonics.
- Dissipative and
nonlinear Landau-Zener problems.
- Optical control and
activation of nonradiation transitions by strong radiation.
- Non-Markovian
theory of four-photon spectroscopy of complex molecules and
superconductors.
- Nonlinear
spectroscopy of linear and nonlinear solvation dynamics.
- Effects of phase
modulation in lasers for ultrashort light pulses.
- Interference
effects in nonlinear scattering.
- Quantum expansions
for calculating vibronic spectra and distribution functions for
molecular systems with multiwell potentials.
Education
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1971-1975: |
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Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical
Sciences; S.I.Vavilov
State Optical
Institute, Leningrad,
USSR.
Thesis Title: "Theoretical study of the relaxation interaction
effects on absorption and emission of quantum systems in strong
electromagnetic field." Supervisor: Professor Pallady Pavinsky |
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1963-1969: |
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M.Sc. in Quantum Electronics,
Leningrad Institute of Precise Mechanics and Optics, Leningrad , USSR,
Honours diploma |
Academic and Professional Experience
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Institute |
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2003 - present: |
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Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. |
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Full Professor of Chemical Physics. |
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2000 - present: |
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School
of Chemistry of Tel-Aviv University, Israel. |
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Visiting Professor. |
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1999 - 2001: |
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Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel. |
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Dean of Research. |
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1998 - 2003: |
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Department of Exact Sciences (Physics), Holon Academic
Institute of Technology,
Israel. |
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Associate Professor. |
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1994 - 1997: |
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Department of Exact Sciences (Physics), Center for
Technological Education Holon,
Israel. |
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Senior Lecturer. |
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1991 - 1998: |
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Department of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry,
Tel-Aviv University, Israel. |
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Senior Scientist. |
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1969-1990: |
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Department of Spectroscopy, S.I.Vavilov State
Optical Institute, Leningrad,
USSR. |
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1989-1990: Associate Professor.
1987-1990: Senior research Associate.
1971-1987: Research Associate.
1969-1971: Junior Research Associate. |
Visiting positions
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1997: |
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· Short-term visiting professor at
Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (CNRS, Strasbourg, France). |
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1999: |
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· Short-term visiting professor at
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Nara, Japan). |
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2000: |
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· Short-term visiting professor at
Department of Chemistry, University
of Illinois (Urbana, USA).
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Visiting Professor at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science,
Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan,
Republic of China
(September-October) |
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2000 - present: |
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· Visiting Professor at School of Chemistry
of Tel-Aviv University,
Israel. |
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2001: |
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Visiting Professor at Institute
of Physics and
Chemistry of Materials, CNRS, Strasbourg,
France
(September-October) |
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2002: |
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Visiting Professor at Institute
of Physics and
Chemistry of Materials, CNRS, Strasbourg,
France
(September-October) |
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2003: |
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Visiting Professor-Sabbatical at Humboldt University
of Berlin,
Institute of Physics,
Berlin, Germany
(February-May) |
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2007: |
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Visiting Professor-Sabbatical at University
of Augsburg, Institute for
Physics, Augsburg, Germany (November-December) |
Grants and awards
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1991-1994: |
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· "Laser Induced Grating Spectroscopy
of High-Temperature Superconductors" (Ministry of Science and
Technology). |
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1992: |
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· “Ultrafast solvation dynamics”
(Wolfson Foundation, the grant of the Inter-University Comission of
Israel). |
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2000-2004: |
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· "Theoretical and
experimental study of the interaction of intense ultrashort chirped
pulses with molecules in solution " (The Israel Science Foundation). |
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2001-2002: |
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· “Study
of wave packet motion in molecules coupled with a dissipative environment:
Experimental and theoretical investigation with ultrashort laser pulses”
(French-Israeli Scientific and Technical Cooperation Program
Arc-EN-Ciel-Keshet) |
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2007: |
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· "Driven transport in
molecular systems" (Nanosystems Initiative Munich
excellence program, Germany). |
2008-2010 |
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· "Nanosolitons in molecular J-aggregates promising for information record and processing" (Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport of Israel). |
2009-2013 |
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· " Optical response of current carrying molecular junctions based on many-body description” [United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)] |
Pending |
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· " Exciton effects on current carrying molecular nanowires and their modification by metallic nanoparticles” [Israel Science Foundation (ISF)] |
Invited Lectures at the International Conferences
and Invited Articles
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Year |
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Name of Journal
(series)/Conference
(city, country) |
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Occasion |
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1982 |
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The All-Union Symposium “Physics and Chemistry of
Polymethin Dyes”, Kiev,
USSR |
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Invited Lecture |
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1990 |
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The II USSR-USA Workshop “Linear and Nonlinear Laser
Interactions and Molecular Dynamics”, Moscow-Leningrad, USSR |
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Invited Lecture and Member of Organizing Committee |
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1992 |
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The 2nd French-Israeli Symposium on Nonlinear Optics,
Port Barcares, France |
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Invited Lecture |
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1993 |
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Israel
Journal of Chemistry |
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Invited Article |
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1994 |
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Chemical Physics |
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Invited Article |
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1997 |
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The Czech-Israeli-German Symposium “Dynamical
Processes in Condensed Molecular Systems”, Prague, Czech
Republic |
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Invited Lecture |
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International Research Workshop on Diffusion Assisted
Reactions, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
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Invited Lecture |
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1999 |
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Advances in Chemical Physics Series |
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Invited Article |
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1999 |
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The Polish-Israeli-German Symposium “Dynamical
Processes in Condensed Molecular Systems”, Cracow, Poland |
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Invited Lecture |
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2003 |
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Sfb 450 Workshop “Analysis and Control of Ultrafast
Photoinduced Reactions”, Berlin,
Germany |
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Invited Lecture: “Theory of coherent population
transfer in dissipative systems” |
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2003 |
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Advances in Multiphoton Processes and Spectroscopy, World
Scientific |
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Invited Article |
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2004 |
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4th Workshop on Diffusion Assisted Reactions, Leibnitz, Austria |
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Invited Lecture |
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2004 |
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Israel
Journal of Chemistry |
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Invited Article |
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2007 |
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Journal of Physical Chemistry A |
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Invited Article |
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2009 |
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International Conference on Transport and Optical
Properties of Nanomaterials, Allahabad,
India |
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Invited Lecture |
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2011
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International Conference on Frontier Topics in Nanostructures and Condensed
Matter Theory, London,
Ontario, Canada
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Invited Lecture
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2011
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12th International Conference “Electronic and Related
Properties of Organic Systems”, Vilnius,
Lithuania
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Invited Lecture
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