Yonathan Shapir

Biographical Sketch: Prof. Shapir received his B.S. in Physics (1971) and his Ph.D. in Physics (1981), both from Tel-Aviv University. After positions as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Illinois (1981-83) and as Assistant Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1983-85), Prof. Shapir joined the University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1985. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991 and to Professor in 2000. Prof. Shapir also holds a joint appointment as Prof. of Chemical Engineering. Prof. Shapir has been the recipient of the Fulbright Award (1981), the Bourse Joliot-Curie (1982), and the Visiting Compton Fellowship at the Technion (1989-90).

Research: Prof. Shapir's research interests are within the fields of theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and statistical mechanics, including: critical phenomena in ordered and disordered systems such as spin-glasses and random-field systems, classical and quantum transport in dirty metals and the metal-insulator transition, statistical properties of different polymer configurations, fractal properties of percolation and other clusters, kinetic models of growth and aggregation.