Efrat Lifshitz () is an Israeli
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...
at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Solid-State Institute,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...
(Technion-IIT). Lifshitz's research is known for pioneering advances in developing and studying
low-dimensional semiconductors
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping levels ...
by exploring the relationship between their
optical properties and magnetism.
[Prof. Efrat Lifshitz - Technion]
/ref>[Prof. Efrat Lifshitz - Homepage]
/ref>[ORCID - Efrat Lifshitz]
/ref>
Biography
Lifshitz was born in 1956 in Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
, Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
. She obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
in 1979 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...
. She received her M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in Physical Chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mech ...
from the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
, U.S.A, working under the supervision of Prof. A. Francis.Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...
, Israel. Lifshitz was a research associate at the University of Michigan from 1986 to 1990, immediately after which she joined the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion-IIT as an assistant professor. Lifshitz has been a full professor since 2005, leading a semiconductors research laboratory. Since 2009, She is also the Matwei Gunsbuourgh Academic Chair at the Technion-IIT.[Prof. Efrat Lifshitz - Technion]
/ref>[Prof. Efrat Lifshitz - Homepage]
/ref>[ORCID - Efrat Lifshitz]
/ref> Since January 2024, Efrat Lifshitz has been the Dean of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion-IIT.Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
, and have three children and four grandchildren.
Research and publications
Lifshitz's research focuses on developing the colloidal
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Some definitions specify that the particles must be dispersed in a liquid, while others exten ...
nanostructures
A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structure
A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Ma ...
chalcogenides
: 220px, Cadmium sulfide, a prototypical metal chalcogenide, is used as a yellow pigment.
A chalcogenide is a chemical compound consisting of at least one chalcogen anion and at least one more electropositive element. Although all group 16 elements ...
,transition metal
In chemistry, a transition metal (or transition element) is a chemical element in the d-block of the periodic table (groups 3 to 12), though the elements of group 12 (and less often group 3) are sometimes excluded. The lanthanide and actinid ...
dichalcogenides, iodides
An iodide ion is I−. Compounds with iodine in formal oxidation state −1 are called iodides. In everyday life, iodide is most commonly encountered as a component of iodized salt, which many governments mandate. Worldwide, iodine deficiency a ...
and phosphor-tri-chalcogenides,[UNSW School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering Magneto-optical properties of colloidal quantum dots - Lecture, 2015]
/ref> Lifshitz's expertise in methodologies such as Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR),confocal microscopy
Confocal microscopy, most frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast (vision), contrast of a micrograph by me ...
, and circularly polarized photoluminescence
Photoluminescence (abbreviated as PL) is light emission from any form of matter after the absorption of photons (electromagnetic radiation). It is one of many forms of luminescence (light emission) and is initiated by photoexcitation (i.e. phot ...
has enabled a notable contribution in the detection of Rashba effects due to spin-orbit coupling and symmetry breaking
In physics, symmetry breaking is a phenomenon where a disordered but Symmetry in quantum mechanics, symmetric state collapses into an ordered, but less symmetric state. This collapse is often one of many possible Bifurcation theory, bifurcatio ...
, Zeeman interactions,
Coulomb
The coulomb (symbol: C) is the unit of electric charge in the International System of Units (SI).
It is defined to be equal to the electric charge delivered by a 1 ampere current in 1 second, with the elementary charge ''e'' as a defining c ...
and exchange interactions
In chemistry and physics, the exchange interaction is a quantum mechanical constraint on the states of indistinguishable particles. While sometimes called an exchange force, or, in the case of fermions, Pauli repulsion, its consequences cannot alw ...
, and Landé g-factors in nanomaterials
Nanomaterials describe, in principle, chemical substances or materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale).
Nanomaterials research takes a materials science ...
.[Researchers Working To Turn Any Sunglasses Into Night-Vision Goggles! NoCamels (Technology News) - February 24, 2014]
/ref> proving anisotropies in perovskite materials,Density Functional Theory
Density functional theory (DFT) is a computational quantum mechanical modelling method used in physics, chemistry and materials science to investigate the electronic structure (or nuclear structure) (principally the ground state) of many-body ...
(DFT) and effective mass approximation method.[Efrat Lifshitz - Google Scholar]
/ref> She also serves on the editorial board of many peer-reviewed journals.
Lifshitz has been a fellow of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...
in 2015.[Efrat Lifshitz - Freiburg Fellow]
/ref> She has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
, the University of Lyon1, the University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...
, and the University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university, research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Oakland, the system is co ...
, Berkeley.[Efrat Lifshitz (website)]
/ref>
Efrat Lifshitz has won awards for her scientific contributions, including the Henry Taub Prizes for Academic Excellence,[Awards & Prizes At Technion Board of Governors (2019)]
/ref> the 2016 Israel Vacuum Society Excellence Award for Research, and the Tenne Family Prize in 2015,[Tenne Family Prize]
/ref> which was awarded by the Israel Chemical Society in recognition of her pioneering work in the development of novel magneto-optical methodologies to study the properties of materials at the nanoscale, and UK-Israel Lectureship Award at Oxford University
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...
in 2015.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lifshitz, Efrat
Living people
Israeli women chemists
1956 births
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
University of Michigan alumni