CURRICULUM VITÆ

Benjamin Svetitsky

BORN:

• September 11, 1955
  Jerusalem, Israel
  (U. S. and Israeli citizenship)

EDUCATION:

• Bronx High School of Science, New York City
• Graduated June 1971
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• S.B. degree in physics 1974
• Princeton University
• M.A. degree in physics 1976
• Ph.D. research conducted at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1976–79
• Ph.D. degree in physics 1980

POSITIONS HELD:

• Theoretical Physics Group, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
• Research Assistant 1976–79
• Research Associate 1979–80
• Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Research Associate 1980–81
• Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University
• Research Associate 1981–83
• IBM Postdoctoral Fellow 1983–84
• Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Research Scientist 1984–88
• School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
• Teaching Associate with rank of Senior Lecturer 1988–90
• Senior Lecturer 1990–92
• Associate Professor 1992–2006
• Chairman, Department of Nuclear Physics 1998–2000; 2002–2005
• Professor, 2006–2023
• Chairman, Institute of Theoretical Physics, 2022–2023
• Professor Emeritus, 2023–

VISITING POSITIONS:

• Department of Nuclear Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Visiting Senior Scientist 1987–88
• Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Collaborator 1989–
• Service de Physique Théorique, Centre d'Études de Saclay
• Foreign Collaborator 1992
• Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Visiting Associate Professor 1993–94, Visitor 2010
• Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Visiting Scientist 2000–01
• Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
• Visiting Scientist 2001
• Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
• Long-term visitor 2014
• Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
• Visiting Professor 2014–15

OTHER:

• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Physics Curriculum Committee, Israel Ministry of Education 1998–2005
• Member of the Israel Physical Society since 1991
• Member of the CECAM Israel node since 2013