Gershon Kurizki#
| Membership Number: | 6487 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - present Professor, Theoretical Quantum Optics Chair, Chemical & Biological Physics Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel
- 2017 - 2022 Visiting Professor, Shanghai University, Center for Artificial Quantum Intelligence
- 1991 - 1997 Associate Professor (Tenured), Chemical Physics Department, WIS, Israel
- 1985 - 1991 Tenure Track Position at Chemical Physics Department, WIS, Israel
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum optical solitons
- Coherent control in semiconductors
- Quantum measurements for state engineering
- Superluminal light propagation
- Control of quantum thermodynamics
- Control of open quantum systems and decoherence
- Engineering of quantum field-matter interactions and dispersion forces in confined media
Honours and Awards
- 2009 The Humboldt-Meitner Award, Germany: "In recognition of his exceptional achievements in quantum optics, his ground-breaking contributions to the control of decoherence and his pioneering investigations of the Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in quantum open systems."
- 2008 The Lamb Award in Laser Physics and Quantum Optics, Physics of Quantum Electronics, USA: "For his discovery of the anti-Zeno effect and his pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum measurements and decoherence control in quantum open systems "
- 2004 Elected Fellow, British Institute of Physics
- 2002 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society "For discovering innovative approaches to the control of the quantum properties of fields interacting with matter"
- 1999 Elected Fellow, Optical Society of America
