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Baruch Meerson - Curriculum Vitae

Address: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904 Israel

Phone: +972 2 6584470
Fax: +972 2 6512483
e-mail: meerson@mail.huji.ac.il

Employment history:

Professor emeritus (since 2022).

Full Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1995-2022).

Chairman of the Racah Institute of Physics (2013-2015).

Chairman of Physics Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996-1999).

Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1991-1995).

Research Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988-1991).

Senior Researcher (1983-1987), Researcher (1975-1983), Institute of Applied Geophysics, the USSR State Committee on Hydrometeorology, Moscow.

Fellowships and Awards:

Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (2021).

The Chateaubriand Fellowship (2019).

The Rector’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Teaching (2017).

Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012).

Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the University of Cologne through the Center of Excellence “Quantum Matter and Materials” (2016).

Louis and Ida Shlansky Chair in Physics (2015-2022).

Visiting Scholar Fellowship of the Department of Physics, Boston University (2012).

Michael Milken Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007).

Visiting Scholar Fellowship of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan (2011, 2004-2005).

Visiting Scholar Fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Germany (2001).

Visiting Scholar Fellowship of the Center of Excellence, Ministry of Education, Japan (1998).

Guastella Fellowship of the Israel Academy of Sciences (1991-1994).

Visiting Scholar Fellowship of the Royal Society of London (1991-1992).

Education:

Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics of the Earth, the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

(1978).

M.Sc. in Physics, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (1975).

Present Research Interests: Large fluctuations far from equilibrium

Past Research Interests:

Granular dynamics

Instabilities, pattern formation

Phase transition kinetics

Fluid dynamics and plasma theory

Nonlinear dynamics and chaos

Teaching experience:

Teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988-2022.

Additional professional activities:

Member, Editorial Board, Physics Research International (2010-2015).

Organizer: Invited Session “Large Fluctuations Far from Equilibrium”, 2012 APS March Meeting, Boston MA.

Organizer: Mini-Symposium “Stochastic Population Dynamics: Large Fluctuations and Spatial Aspects”. International Conference “Models in Population Dynamics and Ecology 2010”, University of Leicester, September 2010.

Co-organizer: Workshop “Giant Fluctuations in Population Dynamics”, the Lorentz Center, Leiden, August 2009.

International Advisory Committee member: 10th Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena 2007.

Reviewer for and/or panel chairman or panel member of funding agencies: Israel Science Foundation, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, German-Israel Science Foundation, Israel Ministry of Science, Israel Atomic Energy Commission.

Reviewer for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physical Review B, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Journal of Physics A, Physics of Plasmas, Physica D, Journal of Statistical Physics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, The European Physical Journal B and other journals. Co-founder of the Nonlinear Physics Seminar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Grants:

Israel Science Foundation: 1995-1998, 1999-2002, 2002-2005, 2005-2008, 2008-2013, 2016-2020, 2020-2025, 2025-2029.

US-Israel Binational Science Foundation: 2009-2013, 2013-2017.

German-Israel Science Foundation: 2005-2007.

Israel Ministry of Science: 1991-1994.

Hebrew University grants in 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002 and 2003.

The Lorentz Center, Leiden, 2009: grant for workshop “Giant Fluctuations in Population Dynamics.”

Selected Media Features

  1. Y. Gedi. What does granular flow have to do with expansion of a Universe? (in Hebrew). “HaTeva vehaAretz” May 2005.
  2. L. Zyga. Physicists show that correlated environmental variations can quicken extinctions.http://www.physorg.com/news151059872.html
  3. With proper planning, selective rather than mass vaccination can provide immunity againstflu, say physicists. ScienceDaily, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110103110200.htm
  4. Can quantum mechanics conquer the common cold? Israel National News,http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/141504
  5. Interview to Israel Radio, Reshet Bet on Jan. 3, 2011,
  6. Quantum mechanics in the service of vaccination? “Galileo”, a popular science magazine inHebrew, No. 150, p. 52, Feb. 2011.
  7. M. Khasin, M. Dykman, B. Meerson and M. Kriger. Targeted vaccination (in Hebrew),“Galileo” No. 165, p. 34, May 2012.