Professor Uriel Levy Named Outstanding Young Researcher

Professor Uriel Levy Named Outstanding Young Researcher

Jerusalem – Prof. Uriel Levy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has received the Hebrew University President’s Prize as the Outstanding Young Researcher for 2010-11. The prize is awarded in memory of Prof. Yoram Ben-Porath, former president and rector of the Hebrew University.

Hebrew University President Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson said that the prize was being awarded to Prof. Levy “for his impressive list of scientific articles, for his creativity, and for his groundbreaking innovations.”

Prof. Levy is a member of the applied physics department at the Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering and is a renowned researcher in nanophotonics. He is a member of the Harvey M. Kruger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University. 

A graduate of the Technion in physics and materials engineering, he subsequently earned a Ph.D. in electro-optics at Tel Aviv University in 2002.  He then was awarded a Rothschild Fellowship for post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Diego, which he completed in 2006.

Prof. Levy has published until now 55 scientific articles and has had a number of his research discoveries patented.