Prof. Abraham Nitzan
Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Professor (emeritus) of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
TEL:
University of Pennsylvania: +1-215-8982516 Tel Aviv University +972-3-6408904
FAX:
UPenn: +1-215-5733044 TAU: +972-3-6423765
email: anitzan@sas.upenn.edu nitzan@post.tau.ac.il
ADDRESS: Department of Chemistry , University of Pennsylvania, 231 s 34th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
School of Chemistry, Tel
Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
RESEARCH
SUBJECTS
- 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.
Prizes,
Fellowships and distinctions:
Fellow, American Physical Society,
1990
Riwka (nee Schechter) and Iser Kodesz
Chair of Chemical Dynamics, 1992
Humboldt Award, 1995
Kolthoff Prize, 1995
Israel Chemical Society Prize, 2002
Fellow, American Association for the
Advances of Science, 2004
Manchot Award, 2004
Foreign Honorary Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006John Morrow Visiting Fellow, Duke University, 2007
ERC Advanced Grant, European Research
Council, 2008Schulich visiting lecturer, Technion, IsraelHush Lecture, University of Sydney, 2009
Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, 2009
Israel Prize in Chemistry, 2010
Honorary
Doctorate (Dr. Honoris Causa), University of Konstanz, 2010
Thomson Reuters list of top 100 chemists
over the period 2000-2010 as ranked by the impact of their published research
Mulliken
Lecture & medal, University of Chicago, 2011
Emet Prize
in Chemistry, 2012Hirschmann Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 2014Kaufman Lecturer, University of Pittsburg, 2014Mercator Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin, 2014-15Israel Chemical Society Medal, 2015Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences, 2015Pitzer Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2015Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 2017Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics, American Physical Society, 2019
Past
Visiting Positions
- Northwestern
University
- AT&T
Bell
Laboratories
- Lab.
Photophys. Moleculaire, CNRS
- University
of
California, Santa Barbara
- Georgia
Tech
- University
of
Konstanz
- KFA
Juelich
- MPI for
Astrophysik, Garching
- Pohang
University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
- Technical
University of Munich, Garching
- Duke
University, Durham, NC
- Technion,Israel
- Free University, Berlin
NITZAN's GROUP
2002
2008
2011
2012 2018(UPenn)
List of Publications
(abstracts, PDFs), Books, Patents
Graduate
Students and Postdocs
Description
of research in Hebrew(Use MS Explorer
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Biosketch
Short CV (PDF)
full CV (PDF)
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