Dr. Amikam Levy obtained his BSc and MSc from the physics department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2017 he received his PhD from the chemistry department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working with Professor Ronnie Kosloff. During his PhD he worked on thermodynamics in the quantum regime, studying the interplay between thermodynamic principles and quantum phenomena.

Amikam completed a one-year postdoc at the Hebrew University, where his research focused on developing new quantum control theories for open quantum systems. At the end of 2017, he moved to California and joined Professor Eran Rabani’s group at the University of California, Berkeley and held a joint postdoctoral fellowship at Tel Aviv University. During this time, he worked on topics related to nonequilibrium quantum dynamics, including quasi-classical maps of interacting fermions, fluctuation theorems in the quantum regime, and quantum transport.

Education:

2012-2016:      PhD in physical chemistry, Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University

of Jerusalem (awarded April 5th 2017).

2009-2011:      MSc in physics, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2005-2008:      BSc in physics, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Position:

2020-present:  Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University.

2018-2020:      Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and Tel Aviv University.

2017-2018:      Postdoctoral Researcher, Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.