Curriculum Vitae: Goren Gordon

Education:

• Ph. D. Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, June 2009-Present.
  Thesis: Autonomous Active Learning in the Rat’s Vibrissa System. Advisor: Prof. Ehud Ahissar.

• Ph. D. Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, April 2009.
  Thesis: Quantum Information Processing and Its Protection Against Decoherence. Advisor: Prof. Gershon Kurizki.

• Masters of Business Administration, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Tel-Aviv University Israel, August 2005.

• M. Sc., Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, March 2004.
  Thesis: Rough surface scattering using the Gaussian beam summation method. Advisors: Prof. Ehud Heyman, Prof. Reuven Mazar

• B. A., Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, May 2001.

• Bachelor of Medical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, April 2000.

Honors

• Dean Excellence, Tel-Aviv University, 2000.
• Dean Excellence Award, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2006.
• Otto Schwarz Memorial Graduate Scholarship, 2006.
• Dean Excellence Award, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2007.
• Wolf Foundation Ph.D. Student Excellence Scholarship, 2007.
• Clore Israel Foundation Scholarship, 2007.
• Otto Schwarz Memorial Graduate Scholarship, 2007.
• Israel Chemical Society, Outstanding Student Award, 2008.
• Delegate, Lindau Nobel Winners Meeting, 2009.
• Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize, 2009.

Research Experience

• Ph.D. Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 11/2005-6/2009
  Development of analytical tools for dynamical decoherence control of quantum information processing systems and new quantum communication protocols. Prof. Gershon Kurizki, Department of Chemical Physics.

• Masters Research, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 10/2002-3/2004.
  Development of analytical and numerical simulations of wave propagation and scattering theory. Prof. Ehud Heyman, Department of Physical Electronics.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant. Weizmann Institute of Science, Spring 2011
  Active Sensing course at the Feinberg Graduate School.

• Lecturer. Weizmann Institute of Science, Fall 2010
  Open Quantum Systems course at the Feinberg Graduate School.

• Instructor and program developer, Young Researchers, Davidson institute of
  science education, Weizmann institute of Science, 2009-2010.

• Teaching Assistant. Weizmann Institute of Science, Fall 2008
  Open Quantum Systems course at the Feinberg Graduate School.

• Instructor. Israeli Navy, 8/2001-8/2004
  Lectured on and demonstrated acoustical theory and implementation in naval vessels.

Military Service

Lieutenant, Israeli Navy, 12/2000-9/2005.

Languages

• Hebrew, fluent.

• English, fluent.

Technical Skills

Computers: Programming in Visual C++, C#, MATLAB, JAVA script

Contact information:

Address:

25 Dubnov Street, Rishon Le-Zion, 75215, Israel

Tel.

+972-525-374-429

Emails:

goren at gorengordon dot com

gorengordon at gmail dot com