Joshua Jortner Distinguished Lectures in Chemistry Endowed by Raymond and Beverly Sackler

Professor Gil Markovich is the coordinator of the Joshua Jortner Distinguished Lectures in Chemistry Endowed by Raymond & Beverly Sackler

Name	Institution	Period of Visit	Host
Academic Year 2022/2023 Lecturers:
Prof. David A. Leigh	Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry School of Chemistry The University of Manchester Manchester United Kingdom Email: david.leigh@manchester.ac.uk	November 5-11, 2022	Prof. Yoram Cohen School of Chemistry Phone: +972-3-640-7232 Email: ycohen@post.tau.ac.il
Prof. Michele Parrinello	Computational Science Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences ETH Zurich, Switzerland Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Computational Sciences The Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano, Switzerland Phone: +41 58-6664801 Email: parrinello@phys.chem.ethz.ch	March 20-24, 2023	Dr. Barak Hirshberg School of Chemistry Phone: +972-3-640-4460 Email: hirshb@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2016/2017 Lecturers:
Prof. Omar Yaghi	James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of ChemistryUniversity of California, Berkeley Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Co-Director, Kavli Energy NanoSciences InstituteCalifornia Research Alliance by BASF Email:yaghi@berkeley.edu	December 11-16, 2016	Prof. Yoram Cohen School of Chemistry Phone: +972-3-640-7232 Email: ycohen@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2015/2016 Lecturers:
Professor Marsha I. Lester	Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA Phone: + 1 (215) 898-4640 Email: milester@sas.upenn.edu	May 18-20, 2016	Host: Prof. Sharly Fleischer School of Chemistry Email: sharlyf@post.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2014/2015 Lecturers:
Professor Bernard L. Feringa	Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences Stratingh Institute for ChemistryFaculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)50 363 8569 Email: j.h.kalter@rug.nl	March 7-12, 2015	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Professor Wilson Ho	Donald Bren Professor of Physics & Astronomy Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry The University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Phone: + 1 (949) 824-5234 Email: wilsonho@uci.edu	April 25-30, 2015	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2013/2014 Lecturers:
Professor Martin Moskovits	Distinguished Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Phone: + 1 (805) 893-5035 Email: moskovits@chem.ucsb.edu	June 8-14, 2014	Host: Dr. Tal Schwartz School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-640-9883 Email: talschwartz@tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2011/2012 Lecturers:
Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski	University Professor J. C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences Director Center for Macromolecular Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Phone: + 1 (412) 268-3209 Email: km3b@andrew.cmu.edu	March 10-17, 2012	Host: Prof. Moshe Kol School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6407392 Email: moshekol@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2010/2011 Lecturers:
Prof. Richard Van Duyne	Morrison Professor of Chemistry Professor of Applied Physics Professor of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Phone: + 1 (847) 491-3516 Email: vanduyne@northwestern.edu	October 31- November 6, 2011	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2009/2010 Lecturers:
Prof. Barry Trost	Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor School of Humanities and Sciences Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Phone: + 1 (650) 723-3385 Email: bmtrost@stanford.edu	November 22-30, 2010	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Prof. Louis Brus	Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Phone: + 1 (212) 854-4041 Email: leb26@columbia.edu	December 27, 2009 - January 2, 2010	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:
Prof. Mark Ratner	Professor Emeritus Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Phone: +1 (847) 491-5652 Mail: ratner@northwestern.edu	March 9-15, 2008	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:
Prof. Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou	Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Chemistry BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Phone: +1 (713) 348-8860 Email: kcn@rice.edu	March 18-22, 2007	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2005/2006 Lecturers:
Prof. Tobin J. Marks	Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Phone: + 1 (847) 491-5658 Email: t-marks@northwestern.edu	June 11-16, 2006	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2004/2005 Lecturers:
Prof. George Whitesides	Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor Co-founder and Director of the Whitesides Research Group Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Phone: +1 (617) 495 9430 Email: gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu	May 12-20, 2005	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2003/2004 Lecturers:
Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	Laboratoire Kastler Brossel Physics Department Paris, France Phone: + 33 (0) 1 47 07 77 83 Email: claude.cohen-tannoudji@lkb.ens.fr	May, 2004	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Academic Year 2001/2002 Lecturers:
Prof. Adrian Parsegian	Emeritus Professor College of Natural Sciences Department of Physics University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA, USA Email: parsegian@physics.umass.edu	May, 2002	Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan School of Chemistry Phone: + 972-3-6408904 Email: nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Name

Institution

Period of Visit

Host

Academic Year 2022/2023 Lecturers:

Prof. David A. Leigh

Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry
School of Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Manchester
United Kingdom

Email: david.leigh@manchester.ac.uk

November 5-11, 2022

Prof. Yoram Cohen
School of Chemistry

Phone: +972-3-640-7232
Email: ycohen@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Michele Parrinello

Computational Science Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Computational Sciences
The Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano, Switzerland

Phone: +41 58-6664801
Email: parrinello@phys.chem.ethz.ch

March 20-24, 2023

Dr. Barak Hirshberg
School of Chemistry

Phone: +972-3-640-4460
Email: hirshb@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2016/2017 Lecturers:

Prof. Omar Yaghi

James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of ChemistryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-Director, Kavli Energy NanoSciences InstituteCalifornia Research Alliance by BASF

Email:yaghi@berkeley.edu

December
11-16,
2016

Prof. Yoram Cohen
School of Chemistry
Phone: +972-3-640-7232

Email:

ycohen@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2015/2016 Lecturers:

Professor Marsha I. Lester

Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Phone: + 1 (215) 898-4640
Email: milester@sas.upenn.edu

May 18-20,
2016

Host: Prof. Sharly Fleischer
School of Chemistry

Email:

sharlyf@post.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2014/2015 Lecturers:

Professor Bernard L. Feringa

Jacobus van 't Hoff Distinguished Professor
of Molecular Sciences
Stratingh Institute for ChemistryFaculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)50 363 8569
Email: j.h.kalter@rug.nl

March 7-12,
2015

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Professor Wilson Ho

Donald Bren Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry
The University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Phone: + 1 (949) 824-5234
Email: wilsonho@uci.edu

April 25-30,
2015

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2013/2014 Lecturers:

Professor Martin Moskovits

Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Phone: + 1 (805) 893-5035
Email:
moskovits@chem.ucsb.edu

June 8-14,
2014

Host: Dr. Tal Schwartz
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-640-9883
Email:
talschwartz@tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2011/2012 Lecturers:

Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

University Professor
J. C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences
Director Center for Macromolecular Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Phone: + 1 (412) 268-3209
Email:
km3b@andrew.cmu.edu

March 10-17,
2012

Host: Prof. Moshe Kol
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6407392
Email:
moshekol@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2010/2011 Lecturers:

Prof. Richard Van Duyne

Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Applied Physics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Phone: + 1 (847) 491-3516
Email:
vanduyne@northwestern.edu

October 31- November 6,
2011

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2009/2010 Lecturers:

Prof. Barry Trost

Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor
School of Humanities and Sciences
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Phone: + 1 (650) 723-3385
Email: bmtrost@stanford.edu

November 22-30,
2010

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Louis Brus

Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Phone: + 1 (212) 854-4041
Email: leb26@columbia.edu

December 27, 2009 - January 2, 2010

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:

Prof. Mark Ratner

Professor Emeritus
Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Phone: +1 (847) 491-5652
Mail: ratner@northwestern.edu

March 9-15,
2008

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2007/2008 Lecturers:

Prof. Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou

Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Chemistry
BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC)
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Phone: +1 (713) 348-8860
Email: kcn@rice.edu

March 18-22,
2007

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2005/2006 Lecturers:

Prof. Tobin J. Marks

Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Phone: + 1 (847) 491-5658
Email: t-marks@northwestern.edu

June 11-16,
2006

Host: Prof. Abraham Nitzan
School of Chemistry

Phone: + 972-3-6408904
Email:
nitzan@tauex.tau.ac.il

Academic Year 2004/2005 Lecturers:

Prof. George Whitesides