Professor of Chemistry, University of
Pennsylvania
Professor (emeritus) of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
TEL:
University of Pennsylvania:
+1-215-8982516 Tel
Aviv University +972-3-6408904 FAX:
UPenn: +1-215-5733044
TAU:
+972-3-6423765 email:
anitzan@sas.upenn.edu
nitzan@post.tau.ac.il ADDRESS: Department of Chemistry ,
University of Pennsylvania, 231 s 34th St. Philadelphia, PA
19104, USA School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University,
69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
RESEARCH
SUBJECTS
Theoretical studies of activation,
relaxation and energy transfer processes in molecular
systems.
Transport phenomena in condensed
phases and on surfaces.
Theory of chemical reaction rates
in condensed phases.
Ionic diffusion and conductivity in
solid ionic conductors, in polymers and in confined systems.
Electromagnetic and electronic
interactions in small particles and clusters
Theoretical investigations of
charge transfer and charge separation phenomena in condensed
phases, at interfaces and in nano-junctions.
Molecular electronics.
Numerical simulations of relaxation
and transport processes.
Numerical simulations of quantum
mechanical processes.
Prizes,
Fellowships and distinctions:
Fellow, American Physical Society,
1990
Riwka (nee Schechter) and Iser Kodesz
Chair of Chemical Dynamics, 1992
Humboldt Award, 1995
Kolthoff Prize, 1995
Israel Chemical Society Prize, 2002
Fellow, American Association for the
Advances of Science, 2004
Manchot Award, 2004
Foreign Honorary Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
John Morrow Visiting Fellow, Duke
University, 2007
ERC Advanced Grant, European Research
Council, 2008
Schulich visiting lecturer, Technion,
Israel
Hush Lecture, University of Sydney, 2009
Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, 2009
Israel Prize in Chemistry, 2010
Honorary
Doctorate (Dr. Honoris Causa), University of Konstanz, 2010
Thomson Reuterslist of top 100 chemists
over the period 2000-2010 as ranked by the impact of their published research
Mulliken
Lecture & medal, University of Chicago, 2011
Emet Prize in Chemistry, 2012
Hirschmann Visiting Professor, University of
Pennsylvania, 2014
Kaufman Lecturer, University of Pittsburg,
2014
Mercator Visiting Professor, Free University
of Berlin, 2014-15
Israel Chemical Society Medal, 2015
Foreign Associate, US
National Academy of Sciences, 2015
Pitzer Lecture, University of
California, Berkeley, 2015
Hirschfelder Prize in
Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 2017
Earle K. Plyler Prize for
Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics, American Physical
Society, 2019
ACS
Award
in Theoretical Chemistry, 2020NSF 22-606: Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary
Research Programs: No Deadline Pilot | NSF - National
Science Foundation
NSF 22-606: Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research
Programs: No Deadline Pilot | NSF - National Science Foundation Past
Visiting Positions
Northwestern
University
AT&T
Bell
Laboratories
Lab.
Photophys. Moleculaire, CNRS
University
of
California, Santa Barbara
Georgia
Tech
University
of
Konstanz
KFA
Juelich
MPI for
Astrophysik, Garching
Pohang
University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
