Reshef Tenne

Professor
Material Sciences
Material science
Germany

Professor Materials Science
Biography

Reshef Tenne was the Head of the Department of Materials and Interfaces of the Weizmann Institute and the Director of the Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Architecture (2001-2007), the Director of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science and holds the Drake Family Chair of Nanotechnolgy. He became Fellow of the World Technology Network in 2003 and was awarded the Kolthoff Prize of Chemistry of the Technion (2005); the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal (2005); the Rafael Prize for Excellence in Science of the Israel Vacuum Society (2005); the Landau Prize for nanotechnology by the Israeli Lottery (2006). He was elected as MRS class of (inaugural) Fellows (2008); received the Israel Chemical Society Excellence Award (2008) and the European Research Council Advanced Research Grant (2008). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea in 2011 and received the CNR Rao Prize of the Indian Chemical Research society in 2012 and the Chinese Academy of Sciences-Plenary Speaker award of NanoChina 2011. He has published some 290 original papers and about 40 invited chapters in books and review articles. He delivered more than 220 invited, keynote and plenary talks in international and national conferences and meetings. Reshef Tenne was the Head of the Department of Materials and Interfaces of the Weizmann Institute and the Director of the Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Architecture (2001-2007), the Director of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science and holds the Drake Family Chair of Nanotechnolgy. He became Fellow of the World Technology Network in 2003 and was awarded the Kolthoff Prize of Chemistry of the Technion (2005); the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal (2005); the Rafael Prize for Excellence in Science of the Israel Vacuum Society (2005); the Landau Prize for nanotechnology by the Israeli Lottery (2006). He was elected as MRS class of (inaugural) Fellows (2008); received the Israel Chemical Society Excellence Award (2008) and the European Research Council Advanced Research Grant (2008). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea in 2011 and received the CNR Rao Prize of the Indian Chemical Research society in 2012 and the Chinese Academy of Sciences-Plenary Speaker award of NanoChina 2011. He has published some 290 original papers and about 40 invited chapters in books and review articles. He delivered more than 220 invited, keynote and plenary talks in international and national conferences and meetings.

Research Intrest

Material Sciences