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Biography of Ron Naaman
B
orn in Israel, Prof. Naaman earned his BSc in 1973 from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and his PhD in 1978 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California and spent a year as a Lecturer and Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. In 1981, Prof. Naaman joined the Weizmann Institute in the Department of Isotope Research (later renamed the Department of Chemical Physics). From 1989 to 1995, Prof. Naaman chaired the Institute’s Chemical Services Unit, and from 1995 to 2000, he headed the Department of Chemical Physics. From 2008 to 2010, Prof. Naaman was the Chair of the Scientific Council at the Institute. Prof. Naaman heads the Nancy and Stephen Grand Research Center for Sensors and Security, is a co-chair of the CNRS-Weizmann NaBi program, and holds the Aryeh and Mintzi Katzman Professorial Chair. Prof. Naaman studies the electronic properties of organic− inorganic interfaces. He investigates the interaction of electrons with self-assembled monolayers and the electronic interactions within these hybrid structures. His group discovered the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect and is utilizing this effect for a new type of electronics which is spin dependent. On the basis of these studies, Prof. Naaman and his group produce molecular-scale electrical devices and investigate their properties as the basis for a new generation of nanoelectronics and their immediate practical applications as fast, accurate, and highly sensitive sensors. Prof. Naaman is a fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2007, he was the Lectureship Award Winner of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan. From 2008 to 2011, he was a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. In 2011 he received the Erasmus Mundus research scholarship at the Technical University Dresden. In 2011, he was also the recipient of the Israel Vacuum Society Research Excellence Prize and is a member of the editorial board of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology and the advisory editorial board for the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
David H. Waldeck
Special Issue: Ron Naaman Festschrift
University of Pittsburgh, Chemistry © 2013 American Chemical Society
Published: October 31, 2013 22172
dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp403783a | J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 22172−22172
