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Prof. Shlomo Havlin Department of Physics Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel

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Name:	Shlomo Havlin	short cv (pdf)
Date of birth:	July 21,1942
Birthplace:	Jerusalem, Israel
Marital Status:	Married and father of four children
Education:	Ph.D., with Highest Distinction, Bar Ilan University, 1972

Academic Positions:

• Dean, Faculty of Exact Sciences, 1999 - 2001
• Chairman, Department of Physics , 1984 - 1988
• Professor, Bar-Ilan University, 1984 - present
• Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University, 1982 - 1984
• Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, 1977 - 1982
• Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, 1973 - 1977
• Research Associate, Bar-Ilan University 1972 - 1973

Editorial Board:

• Europhys. Letters (2008- )
• New Journal of Physics (2004-2011 )
• Physica A, (1991-)
• Journal of Statistical Physics, (1991 - 1994)
• International Journal of Fractals, (1991- )
• Research letters in physics (2007- )

Sabbatical Positions:

• Royal Society Visiting Fellow, University of Edinburgh, 1978 - 1979
• Visiting Scientist, Physical Sciences Laboratory, DCRT, NIH, 1983 - 1984
• Visiting Professor, Boston University, 1984 - 1985
• Visiting Scientist, Physical Sciences Laboratory, DCRT, NIH, 1989 - 1991
• Visiting Professor, Boston University, 1991 - 1992

Academic Prizes and Fellowships:

• Ehrenfest Colloquium, Leiden University, Netherlands (2012)
• Lilienfeld Prize for a most outstanding contribution to physics, APS, USA (2010)
• Chaim Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences,(2009)
• Nicholson Medal, American Physical Society (2006)
• Excellence Center Award for Networks, Israel Science Foundation (2003)
• Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China (2000)
• Fellow, Institute of Physics, England (1999)
• President, Israel Physical Society (1996 - 1999)
• Fellow, American Physical Society (1997)
• Director, Gonda-Goldschmied Medical Diagnostic Research Center (1995)
• Director, Science Education Project (1994)
• Minerva Center Award (1993)
• Senior Humboldt Award, Germany (1992)
• Landau Prize for Outstanding Research (1988)
• Top 100 Most-Cited Articles of 1984 (Havlin and Nossal, J. Phys. A17,L24 (1984))
• Prize for Best Teacher, Faculty of Natural Sciences (1980)
• Royal Society Fellowship (1979)
• Lord Marks Fellowship (1979)
• Rothschild Fellowship (1971)

Major Research Interests:

Statistical mechanics, phase transitions, percolation, optimization, diffusion in random systems,
statistical properties of polymer chains, physics of disordered systems and fractals, chemical reactions,
statistical physics of biological and medical systems, granular media, traffic flow,
atmospheric physics,earthquakes, econophysics, epidemics and immunization strategies,
complex networks, networks of networks, climate networks.
Over 650 papers (2012), H-index 72, 50 papers with more than 100 citations, more than 2000 citations per year
Over 200 plenary and invited talks at international conferences.