Education and professional experience

2002 - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UCSD

2000-2002
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Applied Physics, Caltech

1996-2000
Ph.D. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Thesis: Dynamics of dilute polymer solutions in complex flows

1994
Visiting student at the Department of Physics, Bayreuth University, Germany

1991-1993
M.Sc. in Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Thesis: Experiments on the Couette-Taylor flow with dilute polymer solutions

1990-1991
Visiting student at the Department of Genetics, Regensburg University, Germany

1987-1990
B. A. in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

Honors and awards:

2003 Bergman memorial award of Binational Science Foundation
2000 Kennedy distinction prize of the Feinberg Graduate School
2000 Rothshild fellowship for post-doctoral scholars
1998 Haim Holtzmann distinction prize of the Feinberg Graduate School
1997 Feinberg Graduate School fellowship of distinction

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