Gilad Haran#
Photo: Ohad Herches, Weizmann Institute of Science
| Membership Number: | 6492 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.weizmann.ac.il/chembiophys/cfharan |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1837-9779 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - 2018 Dean, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2012 Head, Promotions Committee of the Chemistry Faculty, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2011 Full professor, Chemical and Biological Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 2008 - 2010 Director, Dwek School of Chemical Research, Weizmann Institute
- 2005 - 2011 Associate professor, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 1998 - 2005 Senior scientist, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 1994 - 1998 Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Robin M. Hochstrasser, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
- 1988 - 1993 Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science. Instructors: Prof. Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir and Prof. Elisha Haas
- 1986 - 1987 Research assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Yehezkel Barenholz, Hebrew University Medical School
Fields of Scholarship
- Nanophotonics
- Protein folding
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Single-particle and Quantum Plasmonics
- Single-molecule biophysics
- Single-molecule spectroscopy
- Protein dynamics
Honours and Awards
- 2023 American Chemical Society Nakanishi Prize
- 2022 Breakthrough Grant of the Israel Science Foundation
- 2021 Fellow of the Roysal Society of Chemistry
- 2019 American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Division Award for Experimental Physical Chemistry
- 2019 Fellow of the Biophysical Society
- 2017 Weizmann Prize for the Exact Sciences, awarded by the Tel-Aviv municipality
- 2017 European Research Council Advanced Grant (Smallostery)
- 2010 Incubment of the Hilda Pomeraniec Memorial Professorial Chair
- 1999 Incumbent of the Benjamin H. Swig and Jack D. Weiler Career Development Chair
- 1999 Friedenberg Foundation Prize, awarded by the Israel Science Foundation
- 1987 Fellow of the Foulkes Foundation of the Israel Academy of Sciences
