06/08/2025
Name: Jonathan (Yoni) Toker
Born in 1978, in Jerusalem
Address: Haem 31/12 Ramat Gan 5225232, Israel
Phones: 0544-735402 (mobile)
E-Mail Address: jonathan.toker@biu.ac.il yonitoker@gmail.com1q
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-7659
Education and Employment
1/04/2020-Present: Associate Professor, at the Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University.
1/10/2013-1/04/2020: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University.
1/11/2012-1/10/2013: Senior Intern at the Department of Particle Physics, the Weizmann Institute of Science.
1/10/2009–1/10/2012: Post-Doctoral research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, under the supervision of Prof. Lars H. Andersen.
- Photo-electron and photo-fragmentation studies of gas phase bio-chromophores.
- Heat capacity measurements of bio-molecules.
16/1/2005–15/10/2009: Ph.D. student in Physics at the Department of Particle Physics, the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Zajfman.
- Title: ‘Cooling and heating of small clusters as measured using statistical dissociation’.
1/10/2002–16/1/2005: M.Sc. in Physics at the Department of Particle Physics, the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Zajfman.
- Title: ‘Measurement of the Appearance of Delayed Electron Emission for Small Aluminum Clusters’.
1/10/1999–01/10/2002: B.Sc. in physics and mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1996: High school matriculation with emphasis on physics, mathematics and French, René Cassin High School, Jerusalem. Performed a matriculation thesis under the supervision of Prof. Robert Aumann.
Military Service
1996-1999: Soldier in the combat engineers corp.
Awarded Grants
- Israeli Science Foundation -"Implementation of perfect velocity map imaging at the Cryogenic Storage Ring: toward complete measurements of thermionic emission" Individual research grant no. 77/23, (30/09/2024 - 01/10/2027 amount 300K Shekels per year).
- Co-director of the Minerva center for “Making Bonds by Fragmentation” (2023-present)
- Israeli Science Foundation -"Ultrafast photoisomerization of isolated retinal chromophore ions" Individual research grant no. 1506/15, (1/10/2015 - 30/9/2019 amount 300K Shekels per year), and new faculty equipment grant no. 2047/15 (1/10/2015 amount 1.1M Shekels).
- Young GIF, grant No. I-2370-303.7/2014, “Excited state dynamics of cold isolated biochromophore ions” (1/1/2015 - 31/12/2015, amount 28,000 Euro for one year)
Student Supervision
● Students who completed their Ph.D in my group: Lihi Musbat, Maria Nihamkin.
● Students who completed their Msc. in my group: Maria Nihamkin, Shirel Assis, Adva Ben-Yakov, Michal Kahana, Stav Knafo, Ori Licht, Michar Rot, Mirit Anabi, Adeliya Kurbanov
● Currently I am supervising 4 Ph. Students: Ori Licht, Michal Rot, Yehuda Ben Shabo and Stav Knafo (Jointly with Daniel Zajfman from WIS).
● Lihi Musbat was awarded the 2016 Shulamit Aloni Scholarship for the promotion of women in science (250,000 shekels for 36 months) for her work in my group.
Conference Organization
2023: Co-chair of the 68th annual meeting of the Israeli Physics Society (IPS 2023).
2023: Co-chair of the “9th conference on electrostatic storage devices”
2017: Co-chair of the conference “From Ultrafast to Ultraslow dynamics in Molecules and Clusters”.
Scientific and Administrative Activities
2024-present: Member of the steering committee for advancement of students in the Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
2024-present: Member of the steering committee of the ‘Resilience’ center (מרכז חוסן) in Bar-Ilan University.
2024-present: Member of the scientific committee of the Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
2019-present: Scientific supervisor of the 'Odyssey' program in Bar-Ilan University. Odyssey is a program which allows brilliant high-school students to fast track their career by attending for a span of four years starting from their 9th grade.
2023: Took part in the “Bar-Ilan Leadrship” program (קורס מובילים בבר-אילן).
2019: Management Committee member in representation of Israel in COST Action CA18212 “Molecular Dynamics in the GAS phase”.
2017: Was granted an AIANI fellowship, which includes a month of stay in Innsbruck University where I worked in the group of Prof. Paul Schier, and taught a course ‘introduction to action spectroscopy’.
2016: Chair of the committee for the promotion of Dr. Yuval Ganot from Sapir College to senior lecturer.
2014-2017: Management Committee member in representation of Israel at COST Action CM1204, XUV/X-ray light and fast ions for ultrafast chemistry (XLIC).
2014: Organizer (together with Dr. Moti Fridman) of the second Physiwiki competition - a competition for writing articles about Physics and Engineering for the Hebrew Wikipedia.
2009: Organizer (together with Dr. Moti Fridman) of the first Physiwiki competition - a competition for writing articles about Physics for the Hebrew Wikipedia.
eaching Experience
● 2022-2023: "Waves for physics students".
● 2022-2023: "Introduction to quantum technologies" (course for Odyssey students);
● 2019-2023: “Waves” (summer course for Odyssey students)
● 2021-2023: “Electronics” and “Laboratory in Electronics” (2nd year undergraduate course for physics students)
● 2018-2019: “Physical chemistry” (86317) (third year select course for physics students).
● 2017-2023: “Modern optics and Laser for optometers (82330)” (third year course for optometry students)
● 2017-2019: “Electronic circuits (86108) (first year undergraduate course of physics students)
● 2014-2017: “General Optics part B” (7682110) (first year undergraduate course for students of optometry).
● 2015: “Introduction to Action Spectroscopy” (7586776) (Graduate level course for physics students)
● 2015, 2020-21 - Physics Colloquium (coordinator).
● 2015-2016: “General Physics Part A” (7580111) (first year undergraduate course for biotechnology students)
● 2016 - Biophysics Colloquium (coordinator).
● 2016: “Student seminar” (meant for third year undergraduate physics students)