David Polishook
- CV
Personal:
Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
234 Hertzl St., 122 Sussman Bldg.
Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Office telephone: +972-8-934-2476
david.polishook@weizmann.ac.il
Education:
2005-2010 Ph.D. at the Department of Geophysics & Planetary
Sciences, Tel-Aviv
University. Subject: Asteroid spin evolution - observations and
implications.
Advisors:
Prof. Dina Prialnik, Dr. Noah Brosch.
2002-2005 M.Sc. at the Department of Geophysics & Planetary
Sciences, Tel-Aviv
University. Subject: Photometry of Atens Đ
on the properties of near-Earth objects. Summa cum laude.
Advisors:
Prof. Dina Prialnik, Dr. Noah Brosch.
1999-2002 B.Sc. in Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, and in
General History, Tel-Aviv University. Magna cum laude.
Positions:
2016-2018 Senior Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Earth
and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Host:
Prof. Oded Aharonson.
2014-2016 Ramon Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Earth
and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Host:
Prof. Oded Aharonson.
2011-2014 AXA Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Host:
Prof. Richard P. Binzel.
2010-2011 Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Particle Physics
and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Host:
Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam.
Awards and Fellowships:
2017 Koshland Post-doctoral fellowship for outstanding
fellows for independent research leader positions, Weizmann Institute of
Science.
2014-2016 The Ilan
Ramon post-doctoral fellowship, the Israeli Ministry of
Science.
2011-2014 The AXA post-doctoral fellowship, the AXA research fund, Paris, France.
2008-2010 The Ilan
Ramon scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students in space sciences, the
Israeli Ministry of Science.
2010 The
Hartmann student travel grant, the
Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
2010 Special
prize for excellent Ph.D. students, Faculty of exact sciences, Tel-Aviv
University.
2009 The
annual prize for excellent Ph.D. students, Department of Geophysics and
Planetary Sciences, Tel-Aviv University.
2006 The
Alix de Rothschild scholarship for excellent Ph.D.
students, Tel-Aviv University.
2002 The
Dean of Exact Sciences award for excellent undergraduate students.
2001 The
freshman student award for excellence, Department of Geophysics and Planetary
Sciences, Tel-Aviv University.
International Collaborations:
2014-2017 The Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA)
Space Mission, The Observing Working Group.
2013-2017 The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS).
2011-2017 The MIT-Hawaii Near-Earth
Object Survey (MITHNEOS).
Scientific Community Activities:
2016-2017 Assistant Editor at Minor Planet Bulletin (MPB).
2010-2017 Reviewer for the journals: Astronomy & Astrophysics (AA), the Astronomical Journal (AJ), the
Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Geoscience Letters
(GOSL), Icarus, Meteoritics & Planetary Science (MAPS),
Minor Planet Bulletin (MPB), and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society (MNRAS).
2012-2017 Reviewer and panelist for NASA proposals.
2014 Reviewer
for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
2013 Scientific
Organizing Committee of Asteroid IV
book, summarizing the last decade in asteroid research.
Teaching and Employment Experience:
2016 Educational
video clips in astronomy with the Center for Educational Technologies, Israel.
2015-2017 Guest lecturer of astronomy at WeizmannŐs courses.
2012-2014 Guest lecturer of astronomy at MITŐs courses.
2009-2010 Lecturer of astronomy lab for undergraduate
students, Tel-Aviv University.
2007-2010 Lecturer of astrophysics at the Interdisciplinary
Center Herzliya (IDC).
2005-2008 Lecturer of astrophysics at the Open University,
Israel.
2005-2009 Lecturer at the Science Oriented Youth unit, Tel
Aviv University.
1998-2001 Software engineer, Tecnomatix
Ltd.
Public Outreach Activities:
2015-2017 Lectures, text and activities at Davidson
Institute of Science Education.
2010-2011 Writer for the Galileo popular magazine for
science and thought.
2003-2010 Co-organizer of the Tel-Aviv University astronomy
club public lectures and activities (http://astroclub.tau.ac.il/index_en.html).
2003-2017 Public outreach in astronomy: lectures, education,
media and Internet.
Scientific Meetings:
2017 Lunar
and Planetary Sciences Conference (LPSC) 48th meeting. TX, USA
(talk).
2016 Division
of Planetary Sciences (DPS) 48th meeting. Pasadena, CA, USA (talk).
2016 AXA
Risk Management Forum. NYC, NY, USA (Invited talk).
2016 Binaries
in the Solar System 4rd workshop. Prague, Czech Republic (talk).
2015 Israel
Physical Society (IPS) 61th meeting. Bar-Ilan
Univ. Israel (talk).
2015 Division
of Planetary Sciences (DPS) 47th meeting. Washington D.C., USA
(talk).
2015 International
Astronomical UnionŐs General Assembly. Hawaii, USA (posters).
2014 Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey
(MANOS) team meeting. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
2014 Asteroids,
Comets, Meteors (ACM). Helsinki, Finland (talk and poster).
2013 Division
of Planetary Sciences (DPS) 45th meeting. Denver, CO, USA (talk).
2013 Binaries
in the Solar System 3rd workshop. Hawaii, USA (talk).
2013 Planetary
Defense Conference. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (Invited talk).
2012 Asteroids,
Comets, Meteors (ACM). Niigata, Japan (talk and posters).
2012 Workshop:
MarcoPolo-R spaceship targets. Meudon
Observatory, France (talk).
2011 Division
of Planetary Sciences (DPS) 43rd meeting. Nantes, France (talk).
2010 Division
of Planetary Sciences (DPS) 42nd meeting. Pasadena, CA, USA
(poster).
2010 Binaries
in the Solar System 2nd workshop. Poznan, Poland (talk).
2009 Israel
Physical Society (IPS) 55th meeting. Bar-Ilan
Univ. Israel (talk).
2008 Israel
Physical Society (IPS) 54th meeting. Ben-Gurion Univ. Israel
(talk).
2008 Asteroids,
Comets, Meteors (ACM). Baltimore, MD, USA (talk and poster).
2008 First
Middle East & Africa Regional IAU Meeting. Cairo, Egypt (poster).
2007 Israel
Physical Society (IPS) 53rd meeting. Weizmann Inst., Israel (talk).
2005 Asteroids,
Comets, Meteors (ACM), IAU symp. #229. Buzios, Brazil (posters).
Seminars and Colloquia:
2017 The
Technion, Astrophysics Group.
2017 The
Weizmann Institute, Center for Astrophysics
2017 The
Hebrew University, the Racah Institute of Physics.
2017 Tel-Aviv
University, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
2016 Open
University, Department of Natural Sciences.
2016 Tel-Aviv
University, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences.
2016 National
Israeli Astronomy Seminar day, Hebrew University.
2016 The
Weizmann Institute, Center for Astrophysics
2016 The
Weizmann Institute, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
2015 Ben-Gurion
University, Astrophysics Group.
2015 The
Technion, Astrophysics Group.
2015 Tel-Aviv
University, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
2015 The
Hebrew University, the Racah Institute of Physics.
2015 Israeli
Society for Astrobiology (ILASOL).
2015 National
Israeli Astronomy Seminar day, Weizmann Institute.
2014 American
Museum of Natural History, NYC, the Department of Astrophysics.
2014 MIT,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
2014 Harvard
University, Center for Astrophysics.
2013 Tel-Aviv
University, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences.
2013 The
Hebrew University, the Racah Institute of Physics.
2013 The
Technion, Astrophysics Group.
2013 The
Weizmann Institute, Center for Planetary Science
2013 The
Weizmann Institute, Center for Astrophysics
2012 Harvard
University, Center for Astrophysics.
2012 MIT,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
2010 Tel-Aviv
University, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences.
2009 CalTech, Department of Astronomy.
2009 UCLA,
Department of Earth and Space
Sciences.
2008 The
Hebrew University, the Racah Institute of Physics.
Observation Experience:
2.8m Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 23.
2015-2016. 6 orbits.
10m Keck I, LRIS, W.M. Keck
Observatory, HI, USA. 2011, 1 night.
6.5m MagellanŐs Baade, FIRE, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. 2013, 6 nights.
6.5m MagellanŐs Clay, LSSD3, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. 2013, 1 night.
5m Hale, Palomar Observatory, CA, USA.
2011, 1 night.
4.1m SOAR, Goodman/SOI, Cerro Pach—n, Chile. 2013-2016, 20 nights.
4.0m Mayall/MOSAIC,
Kitt-Peak National Observatory, AZ USA. 2014-2016, 20
nights.
3m, Infra Red
Telescope Facility (IRTF), Spex/Moris,
HI, USA. 2011-2016, >70 nights.
1.3m CTIO, ANDICAM, Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile. 2014, Queue mode. 7 nights.
1m, PI/FOSC/SITe/Tek, Wise Observatory, Israel. 2003-2016, > 250 nights.
0.71m, FLI, Wise Observatory, Israel.
2014-2016, > 100 nights.
0.46m, SBIG-CCD, Wise Observatory,
Israel. 2004-2015, > 500 nights.