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Anatoly Frenkel

Professor 

Office: 208 Engineering Bldg. Stony Brook, NY
 
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  • 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
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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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