Brief CV

Brief CV

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Short CV of Ramy Brustein (For the complete CV press here)

  • Personal
    • Born July, 4 1957 in Kibbuz Metzer
    • Raised and educated in Kfar-Saba
    • Married to Esther (Lauf) 1982
    • Son Dror, born in 1984, daughter Michal born in 1989
    • Officer in the IDF intelligence unit 8200, 1975-1980
  • Education
    • Sc, Mathematics and Physics, Graduated with honors, Tel-Aviv U. 1978-1982.
    • Sc., theoretical physics, with honors, Tel-Aviv U. 1982-1984, supervisor: Prof. L. P. Horowitz
    • D., theoretical physics, Tel-Aviv U. 1984-1988, supervisor: Prof. S. Yankielowicz
  • Positions held
    • 1988 – 1991: Post-doctoral fellow, U. of Texas at Austin
    • 1991 – 1993: Post-doctoral fellow, U. of Pennsylvania
    • 1993 – 1995: Fellow, CERN, TH Division
    • 1995 – present: Assistant Prof. –> Professor, Dept. of Physics, BGU
    • 2006 – 2010: Dean, Kreitman Graduate School, BGU
    • 2015 – 2018: Chair, Department of Physics, BGU
    • 2016 – present: Albert Einstein Chair in Theoretical Physics, BGU
  • Visitor positions
    • 7/97 – 10/97, 7/99 – 10/99, 10/01 – 11/01, 9/10-9/11, 10/14, 10/17, 10/18-9/19, Scientific associate, CERN, TH Division, Geneva
    • 10/11 – present, Visiting scientist, CERN, TH Division, Geneva
    • 8/03–12/03, Superstring Cosmology Program, KITP, UC Santa Barbara
    • 9/06–10/06, Superstring Phenomenology Program, KITP, UC Santa Barbara
    • 10/11–3/12, 9/13 – 10/13: Fellow, CAS, Ludwig Maximilian U., Munich
    • 3/12–5/12, Bits, Branes, Black Holes Program, KITP, UC Santa Barbara
    • 10/12–11/12, 9/17: Visiting Professor, CCPP, NYU, New York
    • 9/15-10/15, Visiting Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge,, Cambridge.
    • 9/17, Visiting member, Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute, New York.
    • 10/17 Short term member, Institute for Advanced study, Princeton, New Jersey.
  • Lectures at international schools
    • Third international school on field theory and gravitation, Vitoria, ES, Brazil, 2003.
      • Title: Quantum entanglement, thermodynamics and area
    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics school on Strings and Fundamental physics , Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2014.
      • Title: Black hole paradoxes: The clash of quantum mechanics and gravity
  • Awards and honors
    • Lavi memorial prize, Tel Aviv Univ., 1985
    • Abraham Weinberg graduate scholarship, Tel Aviv Univ., 1986
    • Wolf Foundation graduate scholarship, Tel Aviv Univ., 1987
    • Buchman graduate scholarship, Tel Aviv Univ., 1988
    • Alon fellowship, Israel’s council for higher education, 1994-1997
    • Toman academic excellence prize, BGU, 1997
    • Highly cited paper award, Science Citation Index, 2005
    • Excellent Teaching award, BGU, 2007
    • Excellent Teaching award, BGU, 2008
    • Excellent Researcher award, BGU, 2011
    • Albert Einstein Chair in Theoretical Physics, BGU, 2016 –
    • Public lectures
      • The accelerated expansion of the universe, Science and Imagination Conference, Sde-Boker, Israel
      • Is the expansion of the universe accelerated by dark energy ? Shomo Shamayim lecture series, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel
      • Creation of the Universe, Origin of Life workshop, The Ilan Ramon Lecture, BGU and Dead Sea Works annual executive meeting
      • CERN – The new Babel, CAS Ludwig Maximilians U. Munich, Germany, cutting edge lectures
      • The Higgs boson – The discovery of the God particle in the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, The Ilan Ramon Lecture, BGU
      • Gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein, The Ilan Ramon Lecture, BGU and Basic Notions Seminar, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
      • Black holes: beyond the horizon into the quantum twilight zone, public lecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.