News & research highlights
Awards, appointments, items in the press and recent publications from across the department. Every entry links to the page it was published on.
2026 Update New preprint on the non-Hermitian skin effect Joint preprint (arXiv:2608.02746) with Prof. Ching-Hua Lee's group at the National University of Singapore. 2026 People Liya Tabouch joins the group via the Young Weizmann Scholar programme She explained why the two radial trap frequencies could not be tuned to the same value, identifying the trap asymmetries responsible. 2026 People New MSc student Hagay Wechsler joins the group 2026 Award Dr. Aaron Liberman awarded the Israeli Physical Society Outstanding PhD Prize Awarded the IPS Outstanding PhD Prize and delivered an invited talk at IPS71. 2026 Update MSc degrees for Orr, Tom and Evgenii 2026 In the press 'Probing Flying-Focus Wakefields' featured in Physics World Magazine The group's recent work was featured in Physics World Magazine. 2026 Award Dr. Aaron Liberman awarded the Dostrovsky Excellence Prize Awarded the Dostrovsky Excellence Prize for his PhD and selected as the Weizmann graduation speaker. 2026 Award Dr. Anda-Maria Talposi receives the Faculty Postdoctoral Excellence Fellowship 2026 Update 'Klein tunneling for lasers' preprint with the Nir Davidson lab A theoretical preprint on laser synchronization and complex band engineering, predicting enhanced synchronization of two laser arrays separated by a barrier. 2026 Award Congratulations to Anabel Yongjie Chen — Optica 2026 Update Prof. Malka speaks at the Korea-Israel Workshop Presented at the Korea-Israel Workshop, opening new collaboration opportunities. 2026 Publication Extremal events dictate population growth rate inference GrandPre T., Levien E. & Amir A. · PLoS Computational Biology 2026 Publication Quantum Computational Unpredictability Entropy and Quantum Leakage Resilience Avidan N. & Arnon R. · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2026 Publication Percolation with coupled lasers: effect of non-linearities on the phase transition Mahler S., Stroev N., Abu Rmilah M., Friesem A. & Davidson N. · Reports on Progress in Physics 2026 Publication A cosmological “big storm scenario” following the QCD phase transition Shuryak E. & Falkovich G. · Journal of Subatomic Particles and Cosmology 2026 Publication Collective ant transport outperforms gravity-based solvers on complex puzzles Dreyer T., Fonio E. & Feinerman O. · Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 2026 Publication Long-range blockade between counter-propagating photons Das B. C., Harkavi A., Prakash A., Nakav A., Drori L. & Firstenberg O. · Optica 2026 Publication Effects of shock on laser wakefield electron acceleration and betatron radiation Levine E. Y., Ta Phuoc K., Tata S., Hager T., Kroupp E. & Malka V. · Matter and Radiation at Extremes 2026 Publication A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation Bluvstein D. et al. · Nature 2026 Publication Ensemble inequivalence in long-range quantum spin systems Arrufat-Vicente D., Mukamel D., Ruffo S. & Defenu N. · Physical Review Research 2026 Publication A Quantum Interface Between Neutral-Atoms and Trapped-Ions Quantum Registers Ayelet Hasson, Gal Dekel, Ehud Shahar, Nitzan Akerman, Roee Ozeri · arXiv:2607.20998 2026 Publication No oscillating subradiant correlations in a strongly driven quantum emitter array Shi J., Leppenen N., Tessler R. & Poddubny A. N. · Physical Review A 2026 Publication Interaction between Rayleigh-Bénard and nonequilibrium electroconvective instabilities in concentration polarization: Linear stability analysis Rubinstein I., Himmelhoch G., Steinberg V. & Zaltzman B. · Physical Review Fluids 2025 Update Gadi Horovitz defends his MSc thesis 2025 Award Idan Hochner receives the CHE/PBC Fellowship for PhD training in Quantum Science and Technology 2025 2025 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Firstenberg — Optica 2025 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ariel Amir — APS fellow 2025 Update Minicourse on 'Collective light-matter interactions' A minicourse covering light scattering on emitter arrays, superradiance and subradiance, non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and bound states in the continuum. 2025 Award Congratulations to Dr. Tom Manovitz — The Sir Charles Clore Prize 2025 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ariel Amir — The Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation 2025 Award Former group member Dr. Yang Wan wins the 2025 ECPD Prize 2025 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ariel Amir — Israel Young Academy 2025 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ariel Amir — Tel Aviv University Prize in Biophysics 2025 Award Aaron Liberman awarded a 2025 SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship and Best Student Paper Awarded both a 2025 SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship and Best Student Paper at the SPIE Optics Conference. 2025 In the press IMPALA named one of Optics and Photonics News' '30 breakthroughs in optics in 2024' The group's new spatio-spectral measurement device IMPALA was selected by Optics and Photonics News. 2024 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ariel Amir — Elected as a member of EMBO 2024 Award Congratulations to Dr. Rotem Arnon-Friedman — Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics 2024 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Firstenberg — Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. 2024 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Elected as an Israel Physical Society (IPS) fellow 2024 Award Dr. Anton Golovanov receives the Faculty Postdoctoral Excellence Fellowship 2024 Award Congratulations to Dror Berechya — Recipient of the Chaim Mida Prize in Theoretical Physics 2023 Award Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Poddubny — The Sir Charles Clore Prize 2023 Award Congratulations to Dr. Rinat Goren — Scientific Council Prize for Outstanding Staff Scientists 2023 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Firstenberg — Elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy 2022 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Firstenberg — Shimon and Golde Picker ? Weizmann Annual Grant 2022 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nir Davidson — Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) 2022 Award Congratulations to Lior Faeyrman — Feinberg Graduate School Dean's prize for master's students 2022 Award Congratulations to Prof. Oren Raz — Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics 2022 Award Congratulations to Dr. Nitzan Akerman — Maxine Singer Prize for Outstanding Staff Scientists 2022 Award Congratulations to Prof. Eytan Domany — Elected as an Israel Physical Society (IPS) fellow 2021 Award Congratulations to Dror Berechya — the Chaim Mida Prize in Theoretical Physics 2021 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Recipient of the Weizmann Prize from the Tel-Aviv Municipality 2021 Award Congratulations to Dr. Ziv Meir — Quantum Science and Technology fellowship 2021 Award Congratulations to Prof. David Mukamel — Elected as an Israel Physical Society (IPS) fellow 2021 Award Congratulations to Dr. Rotem Arnon-Friedman — Peter and Patricia Gruber Award 2020 Award Congratulations to Prof. Efi Efrati — Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics 2019 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Malka — Recipient of a Humboldt Research Award by Max-Planck-Institut fur Neurobiology 2019 Award Congratulations to Prof. Eytan Domany — Recipient of the Levi-Montalcini Prize from the Italian government 2019 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Firstenberg — Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research 2019 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Malka — Awarded the Alfven Prize from European Physical Society (EPS) (Jointly with Prof. Toshiki Tajima) 2018 Award Congratulations to Prof. Roee Ozeri — The Rosa and Emilio Segre Research Award 2018 Award Congratulations to Prof. Asher Friesem — Recipient of the Emmett N. Leith Medal from the Optical Society (OSA) 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Malka — Elected as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Feinerman — Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Malka — Awarded the European Physical Society (EPS)/Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) "Applied Aspects" Electronics Prize 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Malka — Awarded the Holweck Prize by the French Physical Society and Institute of Physics 2017 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Malka — Awarded the Julius Springer Prize 2016 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — The Rosa and Emilio Segre Research Award 2016 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society 2016 Award Congratulations to Dr. Evgeny Stambulchik — Scientific Council Prize for Outstanding Staff Scientists 2016 Award Congratulations to Prof. Eytan Domany — Sergio Lombroso Award in Cancer Research 2015 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy 2014 Award Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Firstenberg — The Sir Charles Clore Prize 2013 Award Congratulations to Dr. Eyal Kroupp — Maxine Singer Prize for Outstanding Staff Scientists 2013 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research 2012 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Awarded the IPS Prize for a Young Physicist by the Israel Physical Society 2012 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nirit Dudovich — Awarded the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2012 Award Congratulations to Prof. Roee Ozeri — Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics 2011 Award Congratulations to Prof. Victor Steinberg — Chosen as an Outstanding Referee for the Physical Review and physical Review Letters Journals by the Journal Editors for 2011 2011 Award Congratulations to Prof. Nir Davidson — Elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
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