Dr. Danny Porath
Physical Chemistry Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 91904
and
Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978
phone: +972-58-518827 ; fax: +972-2-5660425
email: porath@chem.ch.huji.ac.il
homepage: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~porath/

Academic Background

1985-1988     B.Sc., Physics, Mathematics and Electronics, Hebrew University.

1990-1993     M.Sc., Physics, Hebrew University.
                       “Observations Related to Hydrogen in Powder and Single Crystal Samples of YBa2Cu3O7-d“,
                       under the supervision of N. Kaplan.

1993-1997     Ph.D., Physics, Hebrew University.
                       “Level Spectroscopy of a C60 Molecule and Annealing Studies of Thin Gold Films, Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”,
                       under the supervision of O. Millo and Y. Goldstein.

1997-2000     Postdoctoral work, Physics, Delft University of Technology.
                       “Electrical transport measurements through DNA chains and small metal clusters”,
                       under the supervision of C. Dekker.

2000-2001     Researcher, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
                       "DNA-Based Nanoelectronics" - A group leader.

2001-             Lecturer, Physical Chemistry Department, Hebrew University.
                       "DNA-Based Nanoelectronics" - A group leader
 

Previous Research Interests

• NMR of hydrogen in YBCO
• Surface morphology evolution of thin gold films upon annealing
• Mesoscopic physics
• Discrete level spectroscopy of C₆₀

• DNA, molecular biophysics
• Molecular electronics, single molecular wires and switches
• Mesoscopic physics, quantum transport
• Scanning probe microscopy
• Nanoscience and nanotechnology

Last modification of this homepage: December 15th, 2001 Copyrighted.

Danny Porath, porath@chem.ch.huji.ac.il