David Andelman (physicist)
David Andelman (Hebrew: דוד אנדלמן) is an Israeli theoretical physicist known for his work in soft matter and biophysics. He was born on 17 October 1955 in Bucharest, Romania, and is the Moyses Nussenzveig Professor of Statistical Physics at Tel Aviv University.
He earned his PhD in physics from MIT in 1984, with a thesis on multi-critical phenomena in systems with impurities. He then spent a year as a Joliot Curie Fellow at Collège de France with Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Exxon Research. He joined Tel Aviv University in 1987 and led the School of Physics and Astronomy from 2011 to 2015.
Andelman uses physics to study soft condensed matter and biological systems at the molecular scale. His research focuses on electrostatic effects in soft and biological matter, including electrolytes, polyelectrolytes, and charged biomembranes, as well as the directed self-assembly of block copolymers for nanolithography.
He has served on editorial boards for several journals and is a co-editor of book series on Soft and Biological Matter. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His awards include the Bourke Award (2003) from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Humboldt Prize (2002), and the Paris-Sciences Chair (2005) at ESPCI ParisTech. He has held multiple fellowships in France and Japan.
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