Ely Yissachar Merzbach ( he, עלי יששכר מרצבך; born 11 February 1950) is an Israeli mathematician and emeritus professor at Bar-Ilan University's Department of Mathematics and the Gonda Brain Research Center.

Biography

Ely Merzbach was born in 1950 in Paris, where he attended École Yabné. He immigrated to Israel at the age of 17, studying for a year at Yeshivat Be'er Ya'akov and then enlisting in the

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of the

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. He obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and statistics and an M.Sc. in mathematics from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, and completed his doctoral studies in 1979 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Academic career

After working as a postdoctoral fellow at

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and the École Polytechnique, Merzbach joined the faculty at Bar-Ilan University in 1980, becoming full professor in 1993. His research focuses on point processes theory,

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, stochastic geometry, and applications thereof. He served as head of the Bar-Ilan's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1991, academic head of Ariel University from 1996 to 1997, and was elected dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan in 1997.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Merzbach, Ely 1950 births Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni French emigrants to Israel French Orthodox Jews Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni Israeli mathematicians Israeli Orthodox Jews Living people Probability theorists Academic staff of Ariel University