Research Groups

Professor Noam Agmon

Noam Agmon

  • Excited-state proton transfer in green fluorescence protein
  • Proton solvation and proton mobility
  • Ligand binding to heme proteins
  • Kinetics of bimolecular reactions in solution

 

Professor Roi Baer

Roi Baer (Director)

  • Density functional theory and quantum chemistry 
  • Electronic structure of nanosystems: quasiparticles, strongly correlated systems
  • Stochastic approaches to density functional and many body perturbation theory
  • Molecular junctions as electronic devices

     

Professor Avinoam Ben-Shaul

Avinoam Ben-Shaul

  • Cell-Cell Adhesion
  • Membranes, Macromolecules and their Interactions
  • Viruses: Assembly, Structure and Energetics
  • Self--Assembling Complex Fluid
     
Professor Robert B Gerber

Robert B. Gerber

  • Atmospheric and environmental chemistry
  • Physical chemistry and chemical physics
  • Theoretical and Computational chemistr

 

Professor Eberhard K. U. Gross

Eberhard K. U. Gross

  • Ab-initio theory of superconductivity
  • Optical properties of solids
  • Analysis and control of electron dynamics
  • Quantum transport
  • Correlated electron-nuclear motion
  • Development of functional theories for static and time-dependent quantum systems
  • ELK code development
  • Ab-initio theory of strongly-correlated systems
  • Oxidic surfaces and interfaces
  • Magnetic nanostructures
  • Magnons in complex materials
Professor Daniel Harries

Daniel Harries

  • Molecular crowding and osmotic effects on peptide folding and aggregation
  • Membrane interactions and properties of lipid bilayers
  • Depletion forces and confinement effects in vibrofluidized granular materials
Professor Raphael D. Levine

Raphael D. Levine

  • Attophoto Chemistry
  • Molecular Logic
  • Surprisal Analysis
  • Systems Biology
Professor Ronnie Kosloff

Ronnie Kosloff

  • Open Quantum Systems: Surrogate Hamiltonian
  • Public Safety: Energetic materials
  • Quantum Coherent Conrol
  • Quantum Dynamics Tool Kit
  • Quantum Thermodynamics
Professor Masha Y. Niv

Masha Y. Niv

  • Chemosensation: molecules, receptors and recognition
  • GPCRs: modeling, interactions and activation
  • Protein Kinases: conformational dynamics, molecular recognition, inhibitors design
  • Peptides: structure, function and flexible docking
Dr. Igor Schapiro

Igor Schapiro

  • Computational Photochemistry/-biology
  • Method Development
  • Benchmark of Computational Methods
Dr. Assaf Zemel

Assaf Zemel

  • Cell Matrix Interactions
  • Elastic Interactions of Cells
  • Collective Interactions of Motor Proteins and Filaments in the Cytoskeleton
  • Mechanics of Neuron Growth and Differentiation