Higher education

1972/76 B.Sc, Moscow Steel and Alloys University, Dept. of Physics and Chemistry.

1976/78 M. Sc - summa cum laude-(1978), Material Science, Moscow Steel and Alloys University and the Institute for Solid State Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow district. Title of the M. Sc. these: The effect of superconducting transition on the nonlinear acoustic attenuation in lead. Supervisor: Prof. Ya.M. Soifer.

1978/83 Ph.D (1983), Solid-State Physics, Institute for Solid State Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow district. Title of the dissertation: Optical damping of dislocations in ionic crystals. Supervisors: Prof. Ya.M. Soifer and Yu.A. Ossipyan.

Appointments at the Hebrew University

1991- Research Laboratory Assistant, the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1988/91 Postdoctoral fellow, the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Host - Prof. Dan Davidov.

Service in other Academic and Research Institutions

1983/85 Research scientist, the Institute for Solid State Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow district.

1988/89 Physicist, Time and Frequency Ltd (TFL), Jerusalem/Holon.

1993 Visiting Scientist, Stanford University.

1994 Visiting Scientist, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

1996 Visiting Scientist, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

2006, 2007 Visiting Professor, Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle, Paris.

Other activities:

Bergman prize (Israeli Academy of Science, 1995)

Kaye innovation award (Hebrew University, 1996)

Senior Member of IEEE (1999)

Refereeing service for international scientific journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, European Journal of Physics, Optics Express, Superconductor Science and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, etc.

Current Research Interests:

· Surface plasmon resonance and biological applications.

· Metamaterials, Negative refraction, Photonic Crystals.

· Near-field microwave imaging, Scanning probes.

· Magnetism, Ferromagnetic resonance,

· Colossal magnetoresistance.

· Citation statistics.