Professor Robert Benny Gerber

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Short Overview

Academic Training

B.Sc. in Chemistry (with excellence) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1965

D.Phil. University of Oxford, England, 1968 Thesis supervisor: Professor C.A. Coulson

Senior Mathematics Prize (for thesis research), University of Oxford, 1968

Academic Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate (with Professor Martin Karplus) Harvard University 1968 to 1969

Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1969-1975

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1976-1980

Professor of Chemistry, Hebrew University, from 1980 Saerree K. and Louis P. Fiedler Chair in Chemistry, Hebrew University, from 1989

Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, from 1989

Present Positions

Professor of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, and Saerre K. and Louis P. Fiedler Chair in Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.

Current Research Group

Dr. A. Tamar Yinnon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. Avraham Rom, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. Jan Lundell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. Susan Gregurick, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Daniel Hamburger, Ph.D. Student

Sharon Broude, Ph.D. Student

Erick Fredj, Ph.D. Student

Joon Oh Jung, Ph.D. Student

Eric Altshuler, Ph.D. Student

David Chase, Ph.D. Student

Masha Niv, Ph.D. Student

Yossi Antakolich, M.Sc. Student

Former Group Members

Anna Krylov, PhD

Group Seminar Calendar

Honors and Awards

Graham Senior Scholarship, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, elected 1966

Senior Mathematical Prize, University of Oxford, 1968

Fellow of The American Physical Society, elected 1989

Michael Milken Prize for long-standing excellence in teaching, Hebrew University, 1990

Recipient of the Max-Planck Research Award (given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany), 1991

Recipient of the I.M. Kolthoff Prize in Chemistry (given by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) 1992

Recipient of the Medal of the University of Helsinki and Rector's invited lecturer, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1993.

Editorial Boards

Member, Editorial Board, Isr. J. Chem., 1980-1985

Member, Editorial Board of Molecular Physics (Europhysics Journal based in England), 1980-1988

Member, Editorial Board of Laser Chemistry (International Journal based in France) from 1985

Member of the Editorial Board of Computational Materials Science (an International Journal published by Elsevier) from 1992

Associate Editor "Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry", Review Series World Scientific Press, from 1992

Member of the Editorial Board, Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft fur Physikalische Chemie (an In- ternational Journal based in Germany) from 1994

Special Lectures

Tri-University (UCLA-CALTECH-USC) Joint Seminar in Chemistry, February 1982

Fritz Haber Memorial Lecture, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, Feb. 1989

Lectures in Physical Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, July 1992

Rector's Invited Lecturer, University of Helsinki, Finland, De- cember 1993

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