CURRICULUM VITAE
Victor Steinberg
Professor of Physics Department
of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
76100, Israel
AREA OF EXPERTISE: Soft Matter Hydrodynamics: polymer solutions, suspension of vesicles, capsules, red blood cells, etc.; Dynamics of soft micro-objects in various flows; Convective and hydrodynamic turbulence; Hydrodynamic instabilities, pattern formation and dynamics in nonequilibrium systems, defect dynamics; Hydrodynamics of fluid near the gas-liquid critical point; Superfluidity and superfluid hydrodynamics; Dynamics and hydrodynamics of complex plasma.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
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1962 |
Kharkov Polytechnical Institute, USSR. |
M.A. Mechanical Engineering |
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1966 |
Kharkov State University, USSR. |
M.A.Physics |
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1971 |
Scientific Research Institute of Physico-Technical Measurements, Moscow, USSR. |
Ph.D. Physics |
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
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2009 (October-November) |
University of Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan |
Visiting Professor, JSPS |
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2006 (February-April) |
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany |
Humboldt Professor |
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2004 (June-August) |
ICTP, Trieste, Italy |
Visiting Professor |
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2000-2002 (February-March) |
University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France |
Visiting Distinguished Professor |
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1998-1999 |
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany. |
Humboldt Professor |
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1994 (Summer) |
University of Bayreuth, Germany. |
Humboldt Professor |
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1993-1994 |
Ecole Normale Superieure, Labor.de Physique, Lyon, France. |
Visiting Professor |
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1992-present |
The Harry De Jur Professorial Chair in Applied Physics, WIS, Israel. |
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1989-present |
Weizmann Institute of Science,Israel. |
Professor |
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1987-1988 |
Los Alamos Nat. Lab.Univ. of California, NM, U.S.A. |
Ulam Distinguished Visiting Scholar, CNLS, LANL |
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1983-1989 |
Weizmann Institute of Science,Israel. |
Assoc. Professor |
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1980-1983 |
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. |
Res. Assoc. |
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1975-1980 |
Tel-Aviv University, Israel. |
Sr. Lecturer and Sr. Res. Fellow |
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1971-1974 |
Scientific Research Inst. of Iron and Steel Metallurgy, Kharkov, USSR. |
Sr. Res. Fellow |
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1968-1971 |
Scientific Research Inst. of Physico-Technical Measurements, Moscow, USSR. |
Research Fellow |
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1964-1968 |
Scientific Research Inst. of Iron and Steel Metallurgy, Kharkov, USSR. |
Research Fellow |
AWARDS:
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1987 |
Ulam Distinguished Scholar LANL, USA |
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1993 |
Lise Meitner-Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for the Scientific Cooperation between Israel and Germany |
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2000-2003 |
Municipal Professorial Chair of the University of Joseph Fourier supported by the town Grenoble, University of Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. |
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2009 October-November |
JSPS Fellow, Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan |
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2009-2010 |
C.N. Yang, Visiting Professorship, The Cinese University of Hong Kong |
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PUBLICATIONS:
over 170 publications in the
leading international journals and 5 patents