Eran Rabani

Eran Rabani (Hebrew: ערן רבני) is an Israeli theoretical chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, holding the Glenn T. Seaborg Chair in Physical Chemistry, and at the Tel Aviv University. Rabani serves as the director of The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, and as a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1]

Eran Rabani
Born (1967-04-17) April 17, 1967
Jerusalem, Israel
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forTheory of Nanomaterials
Stochastic Density Functional Theory
Scientific career
InstitutionsTel Aviv University
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisDynamics and Kinetics of Molecular Rydberg States: A Dynamic and Dissipative Approach
Doctoral advisorRaphael David Levine
Websitehttp://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/ergrp/

Education

Rabani received his B.Sc. in chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1991. Under the supervision of Raphael David Levine, Rabani studied molecular Rydberg states, completing his PhD. in 1996.[2] Having completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University in 1999 he joined the faculty of the School of Chemistry at the Tel Aviv University.

Career

Rabani's interest in the theory of nanomaterials rose during his post-doctoral stay in the group of Bruce J. Berne at Columbia University, studying the electronic properties of cadmium selenide nanocrystals. This work included the first application of the filter-diagonalization method for the study of electronic structure, as well as the first quantitative study interactions between nanocrystals.[3] Later early work in Rabani's independent career included further the study of the latter,[4][5] the highlight of which is the theoretical study of drying-induced self-assembly of nanocrystals.[6]

Starting in 2012, Rabani has been working extensively with Roi Baer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Daniel Neuhauser (University of California, Los Angeles) on applying stochastic methods for the study of the electronic structure of large systems, such as nanocrystals, including stochastic formulations of the random-phase approximation,[7] second order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory[8] and density functional theory.[9] Such methods have allowed the calculation of GW self-energies of 10,000 electrons-large systems with linear scaling.[10]

Rabani became a full professor at Tel Aviv University in 2008. In 2014 he joined the faculty of the department of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley and later the faculty of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2015. Rabani has held various positions, including serving as the Vice President for Research and Development at Tel Aviv University, where today he is the director of The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science.[1] In 2015 Rabani joined the editorial board of the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters as an associate editor.[11]

Rabani has an h-index of 47 as of 2020, having published more than 230 papers which were cited more than 8600 times.[12] Among his doctoral students throughout the years is Oded Hod, a faculty member at Tel Aviv University.[13]

Awards[14]
  • Visiting Miller Research Professorship, University of California, Berkeley 2010
  • Marie Curie IOF, 2010 - 2013
  • J.T. Oden Faculty Fellow, University of Texas, Austin 2009
  • Invited Professorship, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris 2008 - 2009
  • The Michael Bruno memorial award, Yad Hanadiv, 2006[15]
  • ICS Prize for Excellent Young Chemists, Israel Chemical Society, 2003[16]
  • The Friedenberg Foundation Award, Israel Science Foundation, 2002
  • The Bergmann Memorial Research Award, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 2000
  • The Yigal Alon Fellowship, The Israeli Council of Higher Education, 1999 - 2002
  • The Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997
  • The Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yad Hanadiv, 1996

Community activity

Rabani served as a council member and the vice mayor of Har Adar between the years 2008-2010.[1]

References
  1. "The Rabani Group". www.cchem.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  2. Rabani, Eran. "Dynamics and Kinetics of Molecular Rydberg States: A Dynamic and Dissipative Approach" (PDF).
  3. Rabani, Eran; Hetényi, Balázs; Berne, B. J.; Brus, L. E. (1999-03-15). "Electronic properties of CdSe nanocrystals in the absence and presence of a dielectric medium". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 110 (11): 5355–5369. Bibcode:1999JChPh.110.5355R. doi:10.1063/1.478431. ISSN 0021-9606.
  4. Rabani, Eran; Egorov, S. A. (2001-08-22). "Interactions between passivated nanoparticles in solutions: Beyond the continuum model". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 115 (8): 3437–3440. Bibcode:2001JChPh.115.3437R. doi:10.1063/1.1395627. ISSN 0021-9606.
  5. Rabani, Eran; Egorov, S. A. (January 2002). "Solvophobic and Solvophilic Effects on the Potential of Mean Force between Two Nanoparticles in Binary Mixtures". Nano Letters. 2 (1): 69–72. Bibcode:2002NanoL...2...69R. doi:10.1021/nl015645r. ISSN 1530-6984.
  6. Rabani, Eran; Reichman, David R.; Geissler, Phillip L.; Brus, Louis E. (November 2003). "Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles". Nature. 426 (6964): 271–274. Bibcode:2003Natur.426..271R. doi:10.1038/nature02087. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 14628047. S2CID 4413931.
  7. Neuhauser, Daniel; Rabani, Eran; Baer, Roi (2013-04-04). "Expeditious Stochastic Calculation of Random-Phase Approximation Energies for Thousands of Electrons in Three Dimensions". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 4 (7): 1172–1176. doi:10.1021/jz3021606. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26282038. S2CID 32261457.
  8. Neuhauser, Daniel; Rabani, Eran; Baer, Roi (2013-01-08). "Expeditious Stochastic Approach for MP2 Energies in Large Electronic Systems". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 9 (1): 24–27. doi:10.1021/ct300946j. ISSN 1549-9618. PMID 26589007. S2CID 5166692.
  9. Baer, Roi; Neuhauser, Daniel; Rabani, Eran (2013-09-04). "Self-Averaging Stochastic Kohn-Sham Density-Functional Theory". Physical Review Letters. 111 (10): 106402. arXiv:1304.4053. Bibcode:2013PhRvL.111j6402B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.106402. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 25166686. S2CID 270673.
  10. Vlček, Vojtěch; Li, Wenfei; Baer, Roi; Rabani, Eran; Neuhauser, Daniel (2018-08-06). "Swift G W beyond 10,000 electrons using sparse stochastic compression". Physical Review B. 98 (7): 075107. arXiv:1805.10554. Bibcode:2018PhRvB..98g5107V. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.075107. ISSN 2469-9950. S2CID 51686049.
  11. "Editorial Board". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  12. "Eran Rabani - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  13. "The Group". Rabani Group. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  14. "Prof. Eran Rabani". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  15. "Bruno Laureates". iias.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  16. "Outstanding Young Scientist". ics-website. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
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