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Professor Boris Fainberg
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Contact Info
Room:
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202/8
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Phone:
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972-3-5026576
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Fax:
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972-3-5026576
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email:
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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.
- Graphene.
- Nanophotonics including polaritonics.
- 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
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Academic and Professional Experience
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Institute
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Rank/Function:
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2016
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International Laboratory of Nonlinear Optical Informatics, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Research Professor |
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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.
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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).
· 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)
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- Visiting Professor-Sabbatical at Northwestern University, Chemistry Department, Evanston, IL, USA
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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).
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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).
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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)]
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- Short term scientific missing grant "Light-induced plasmonic properties of
organic materials" (COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
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2018-2021
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- "Multifunctional light theranostic nanoprobe devices” (Israel Ministry of Science)
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Invited Lectures at the International Conferences and Invited Articles
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Year
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Name of Journal
(series)/Conference
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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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| 2013 |
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International Conference and Exhibition on Lasers, Optics & Photonics, San Antonio, Texas, USA |
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Invited Lecture and Member of Organizing Committee |
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2013
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International Symposium "Fundamentals of Laser Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies" (FLAMN-13), St. Petersburg, Russia
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Invited Lecture |
| 2013 |
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International Conference on Nanomaterials (ICN 2013), London, Ontario, Canada |
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Invited Lecture |
| 2014 |
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International Conference Laser Optics 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, 30 June-4 July |
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Invited Lecture |
| 2014 |
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Scientific and Technical J. of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics |
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Invited Article |
| 2015 |
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The 45th Winter Colloquium on Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE-2015), Snowbird, Utah, USA |
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Invited Lecture |
| 2015 |
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Conference "Nanotechnology from Academia to Industry", HIT, Holon, Israel, 19 April |
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Invited Lecture |
| 2015 |
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International Workshop "Nonlinear Photonics: Theory, Materials, Applications, St. Petersburg, Russia, 29 June-2 July |
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Invited Lecture |
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2016
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17th International Conference "Laser Optics 2016", St. Petersburg, Russia, 27 June-1 July
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Invited Lecture |
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2017
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SPIE Conference – Organic Photonics + Electronics 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, 6-10 August
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Invited Lecture |
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2018
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18th International Conference "Laser Optics 2016", St. Petersburg, Russia, 3-8 June
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Invited Lecture |
| 2018 |
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META'18 – The 9th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Marseille, France, 24 June-1 July |
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Invited Lecture |
| 2018 |
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Small |
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Invited Article |
| 2019 |
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C |
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Invited Article |
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