Anatoly Frenkel

Reserach Interests 

• Physico-chemical properties and mechanistic studies of functional nanomaterials
• Heterogeneous and photo-catalysis with nanoparticles, clusters and “single atoms”
• Multimodal methodologies for materials’ characterization
• Machine Learning methods for materials research and discovery
• Development of synchrotron-based techniques and data analysis methods

 

Honors & Awards

• American Ceramic Society Ross Coffin Purdy Award, 2025
• Schulich Visiting Professor Lectureship award, Technion, Israel, 2025
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017
• Selected for “Top-10 Discoveries and Scientific Achievements” at BNL, 2017 and 2018
• Fellow, Empire Innovation Program, New York State, 2017
• Weston Visiting Professor Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2015-2027
• Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Yeshiva University, 2003

 

Education

• Post-Doctoral Fellow (Physics), University of Washington, Seattle. 1995-1996 (advisor: E. A. Stern)
• Ph.D. (Physics) Tel Aviv University, Israel: 1995 (advisor: A. V. Voronel)
• M.Sc. (Physics) St. Petersburg University, Russia: 1987 (advisor: L. N. Labzovsky)

 

Career

• Professor, Stony Brook University, 2016-present
• Professor, Yeshiva University, 2007-2016
• Associate Professor, Yeshiva University, 2001-2007
• Research Scientist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-2001
• Research Associate, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995-1996
• Research Assistant, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1990-1995
• Research Engineer, Institute of Acoustics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1987-1990

 

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