Group Members
Eytan Grosfeld
Principal investigator
Eytan Received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute, 2008. He then moved to Urbana-Champaign as a post-doctoral fellow in the ICMT. He joined BGU in 2011.
Idan Wallerstein
PhD student
Idan studies the properties of interacting quantum systems using field theoretical techniques.
Emuna Rimon
PhD student
Emuna, a joint PhD student with Prof. Yevgeny Bar Lev has joined the group in 2021. She is studying the interplay of disorder and topology.
Lior Shai
MSc student
Lior studies the properties of vortices in layered superconductors using statistical simulations.
Shimon Arie Haver
Post-doctoral fellow
A former PhD student (graduated 2025), Shimon studies the properties of topological matter interacting with photons.
Alumni
Koby Yavilberg
Data Scientist / Algorithm Developer, Kasko2go
Former PhD student (graduated 2020) and post-doctoral fellow (2020-2021). His research interests focus on topological qubits and the interplay between Majorana and Andreev states in Josephson junctions.
Daniel Dahan
Quantum Theory & Simulation Team Lead at Qarakal Quantum
One of Eytan’s former PhD students (graduated 2021). Daniel studies the properties of quantum systems using open system and density-matrix renormalization group methods, applied towards quench dynamics and quantum chaos.
Daniel Ariad
Applied Scientist at Evidium, San-Francisco, California
Former PhD student (graduated 2018). Studied the properties of quantum vortices in topological superconductors. Continued for a post-doc in physics at Indiana Bloomington and to a post-doc in computational biology at John Hopkins.
Amrita Ghosh
Senior consultant in business consulting, Earnst and Young
Former post-doctoral fellow (2018-2021). Studied interacting topological states of matter using quantum Monte-Carlo techniques. Continued to a post-doc at National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan.
Tali Shnaider
Qedma
A former MSc student (graduated 2025), Tali studied the properties of superconducting circuits coupled to quantum dots.