Ilan Ben-Zvi
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Office: Brookhaven National Laboratory, C-AD, MS-911B
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Biography:
Ilan Ben-Zvi is an Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University. He got his Ph.D. from
the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1970, where he also served as
a Tenured Senior Scientist from 1975 to 1988. His BA in Mathematics and Physics is
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1965. He was Visiting Research Associate
at Stanford University from 1970 to 1975. He has been on the faculty at Stony Brook
starting as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1980-1982, came back as a Visiting Professor
in 1988 and has since been associated with the Physics and Astronomy Department in
various roles until now.
Research Statement:
Ilan Ben-Zvi’s expertise encompasses conventional and superconducting RF linear accelerators
for accelerating particles ranging from electrons to heavy ions, particle sources,
cryogenics, electron-hadron colliders and advanced accelerator concepts. Currently
he is engaged in R&D at CERN on Ferroelectric Fast Reactive Tuners and Stony Brook
University Diamond Amplified Photocathodes.
Ben-Zvi has over 650 scientific publications, see ORCID ID 0000-0001-5583-0106.