Yaron Oz (

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: ירון עוז; born August 10, 1964, in

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) is full

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of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.

Biography

Oz completed summa cum laude his two B.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and physics in 1987, his M.Sc. degree in 1989, and his Ph.D. degree in 1991 in physics at the Technion. He served as a research officer at the

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in the years 1990-1995. After post-doctoral studies at

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during 1996 - 1998, he joined

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

as staff member. In 2001 he joined the School of Physics and Astronomy at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

as Professor. Recipient of the Alon Fellowship, he became incumbent of the Sackler Chair for Young Distinguished Scientists. He served as head of the School from 2006 until 2011, as Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences from 2011 until 2015 and as Rector of Tel Aviv University from 2015 until 2020. His fields of research include high energy particle physics, quantum field theories and supersymmetry, classical and quantum gravity, superstrings, quantum information and computation. Currently, Oz has published more than 160 scientific articles. He is the incumbent of the Yuval Neeman Chair of Physics, won the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Research and headed the Centre for Excellence in Research of the National Science Foundation. He has been the recipient of numerous competitive research funds, and is a member of the high energy I-Core Center. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities and research institutes, such as

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, École normale supérieure of Paris,

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, and Simons institute in USA. Oz was the vice president of the Israel Physics Society in the years 2010-2013 and the president in the years 2013-2016; he is the scientific director of the

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(JHEP) and a scientific editor of the

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(JCAP); he is head of the National Committee of Pure and Applied Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences; and is a member of the National Committee of High Energy Physics. Oz is an external scientific member of the

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(Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam and Hannover) and the

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. He is a member of the

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in Princeton and the head of Tel Aviv university Center for Quantum Science and Technology. Married, with 5 children, he lives in

Ramat Hasharon Ramat HaSharon ( he, רָמַת הַשָּׁרוֹן, ''lit.'' '' Sharon Heights'', ar, رمات هشارون) is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon t ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Oz, Yaron Israeli physicists 1964 births Living people Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University People associated with CERN