Boris D. Fainberg
Professor of Chemical Physics
Holon Institute of Technology
Israel
Research Interests

Non-Markovian effects in four-photon spectroscopy, coherent optical control, molecular electronics, graphene, nanophotonics, plasmonics and polaritonics.

Work Experience

Period (dates)

Name of Institution

(city, country )

Department

Rank/Function

 

 

 

 

 

 

1969-71

S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

 

Spectrometry

Research-probationer

 

1971-87

S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

 

Spectroscopy

Junior Research Associate

 

1987-90

S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

 

Spectroscopy

Senior Research Associate

 

1989-90

S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

 

Spectroscopy

Associate Professor

 

1991-98

Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Chemistry

Senior Scientist

 

 

2000-present

Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Chemistry

Visiting Professor

 

2016

ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

 

International Laboratory of Nonlinear Optical Informatics

 

Research Professor

 

1994-present

HIT - Holon Institute of

Technology, Holon, Israel  

 

 

                             Rank

Faculty of Sciences/

Dept. of Sciences

 

 

 

1994-97                Adjunct Lecturer

1998-10.2003      Associate Professor

 

 

 

10.2003               Full Professor

                             (with tenure)

 

                             Function

 

 

 

1999-2001            Dean of Research

 

 

             

 

Education

A. EDUCATION

 

Period of Study (dates)

Name of University

(including city and country if not in Israel)

Subject

Degree or Professional Licence

Date of Award

 

 

 

 

 

1963-69

Leningrad Institute of Precise Mechanics and Optics, Leningrad, USSR

 

Quantum Electronics,

Electrooptics

M.Sc.

1969

1971-75

S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR

 

Nonlinear Optics

Ph.D.

1977

 

Title of Master’s Thesis:                      Q-switch modulator for investigations of pulse ruby laser

 

Name of Supervisors:                           Prof. S.F. Sharlay

 

Title of Doctoral Dissertation:             Theoretical studies of the effects of relaxation interactions

                                                              on the absorption and emission of quantum systems

                                                    in strong electromagnetic field

 

Names of Supervisors:                          Prof. P.P. Pavinsky

Honors & Awards

Year

Name of Institution (city, country )

Occasion

1991-94

Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel

Grant – principal investigator

“Laser induced grating spectroscopy

of high-temperature superconductors”

1992-94

Inter University Commission, Israel),

Tel-Aviv University

 

Grant of the Wolfson Foundation

“Ultrafast solvation dynamics”

 

 2001-02

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israel Ministry of Science

Grant of the French-Israeli Scientific and Technical Cooperation Program Arc-EN-Ciel-Keshet - principal investigator

“Study of wave packet motion in molecules coupled with a dissipative environment: Experimental and theoretical investigation with ultrashort laser pulses”

2000-04

The Israel Science Foundation (Academy of Science)

Grant – principal investigator (4 years)

“Theoretical and experimental study of the interaction of intense ultrashort chirped pulses with molecules in solution”

2007

The Cluster "Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)", Germany

The German Excellence Initiative

 

 

 2008-2010

Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Grant – principal investigator

"Nanosolitons in molecular J-aggregates offering promise for information recording and processing"

2009-2014

United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)

Grant – principal investigator

"Optical response of current carrying molecular junctions based on many-body description"

 

2014

 

Israel Ministry of Absorption

 

Award for leadership in science

7-8/2017

 

COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology

 

Short term scientific mission grant

2018-2021

 

Israel Ministry of Science & Technology

 

Grant - PI "Multifunctional light theranostic nanoprobe devices" (2,500,000 NIS)