Webinar Gregory Falkovich

Gregory Falkovich graduated in Physics at Novosibirsk State University in 1981. He defendend his Ph.D. in Physics in 1984 at Nuclear Physics Inst.,Novosibir. He joined the Weizmann Institute of Science as Senior Scientist in 1992, in 1996 he became Associate Professor and since 2002 he is Full Professor at WIS. From 2004 to 2010 he served the Weizmann Institute of Science as Head of the Department of Physics of Complex Systems. Gregory Falkovich has also been appointed as Head of Scientists Union at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Deputy chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Novosibirsk State University and Divisional Editor of Phys. Rev. Lett. Among the several awards, he received the Excellence Prize of the USSR Ac. Sci. in 1983, the Award of the USSR Ac. Sci. Siberian Division in 1984, the Guastalla Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute in 1992, the Walter and Elise Hass Career Development Chair in 1994, and the Levinson Prize in Physics, Weizmann Institute in 1996. In 2005 he has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London and in 2009 as an outstanding referee of APS. His research interests range over the domains of Theoretical Physics, Statistical Physics, Fluid Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Cloud Phys ics and Geophysics.