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Israeli physicist
Uri Sivan
(
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)(born 1955), an Israeli
physicist
, is the 17th President of the
Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology
. He is also the holder of the Bertoldo Badler Chair in the Technion's Faculty of Physics.
Biography
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Uri Sivan's parents
immigrated
to
Mandatory Palestine
from Poland in 1936.
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They studied at the
Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology
after being banned from European universities because they were Jewish.
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Sivan served as a pilot in the
Israeli Air Force
.
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Sivan has a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, and an MSc and PhD in Physics from
Tel Aviv University
.
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Sivan lives in
Haifa, Israel
.
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He is married and has three children.
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Academic career
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In 1991, after three years at
IBM
’s
T. J. Watson Research Center
in New York State, Sivan joined the Faculty of Physics at the Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology, and became the holder of the Bertoldo Badler Chair.
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Sivan set up and led the
Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Research Institute
at Technion from 2005 to 2010, and in 2017 he set up the National Advisory Committee for Quantum Science and Technology of the Council for Higher Education's Planning and Budgeting Committee.
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Israel's second astronaut carried the nano-bible, a 0.5 square-millimeter silicon nanochip with 1.2 million letters, created by Uri Sivan into space in 2022.
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In September 2019, Sivan became the 17th President of the Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology, replacing
Peretz Lavie
.
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Awards and recognition
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Sivan was awarded the
Israel Academy of Sciences
Bergmann Prize, the Mifal Hapais Landau Prize for the Sciences and Research, the Rothschild Foundation Bruno Prize, the Technion's Hershel Rich Innovation Award, and the Taub Award for Excellence in Research.
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