Head of Institute

Prof. Yosef Yeshurun

Telephone
Fax
03-7369599
Email
Yosef.Yeshurun@biu.ac.il
Office
bldg. 202 (physics) room 420
Fields of Interest

Condensed matter physics; Magnetism; Superconductivity

Reception Hours
by appointment
    CV

    CURRICULUM VITAE

     

     

    Name:                                      Yosef Yeshurun

    Educational Background:         B.Sc.    - Physics, Tel-Aviv University, 1971

                                                    M.Sc.   - Physics, Bar-Ilan University,  1974

                                                    Ph.D.   - Physics, Bar-Ilan University,  1978

     

    Faculty Positions at the                        1982 - 1986     Senior Lecturer

    Department of Physics,                        1986 - 1989     Associate Professor

    Bar-Ilan University:                 1989                Professor

                                                    1988 - 1991     Chairman

    Special Appointments              1992 - 2000     Rector's Advisor on Immigrant Absorption

    at Bar-Ilan University:             1994 - 1996    Rector's Advisor on Student Matters

                                                    1995 - 1996                 Dean of the Students

                                                    2000 - 2002     Vice Rector

                                                    2002 - 2006     Rector

    Post-doctoral and

    Sabbatical Positions:                1978 - 1979     Research Associate, Racah Institute of                                                                                                 Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

                                                    1979 - 1981     Research Associate, Department of                                                                                         Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana.

                                                    1987 - 1988     Visiting Scientist, IBM Laboratories,                                                                                        Yorktown Heights, New York.

                                                    2008                  Visiting Scientist

                                                                                          Imperial College, London, UK

    2008-2009        Visiting Scientist

                                                                                         New York University and City College, NY, USA

     

    Special Appointments:             1989 - 1994     Member of the National Steering                                                                                            Committee on Superconductivity

                                                    1993 - 1996    Member of the National Council for                                                                                         Higher Education

                                                    1994 - 1996    Member of the Israeli-French Bi-National

    Foundation (AFIRST)

                                                    1995 - 1998    Member of the National Council for Research

    and Development

                                                    2011                Fellow of the American Physical Society


     

    Research

    Prof. Yosef Yeshurun, Director of the Superconductivity Institute and Head of the Center for Magnetic Measurements, completed his university education in Israel, continued with advanced post-doctoral research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and returned to Bar-Ilan University as a tenured member at the Department of Physics. In this Department he set up a unique laboratory for magnetic measurements, undertaking a range of experimental solid-state research studies in a number of fields, such as one-dimensional organic conductors, spin glasses, amorphous metals and superconductors.

     

    Prof. Yeshurun supervised more than 40 research students and published ~300 articles in peered reviewed journals. He has had close scientific ties with universities and research institutes in Israel and throughout the U.S.A., France, Germany, Denmark, and Japan. He spent sabbatical years at IBM research laboratories at Yorktown Heights, Imperial College, London, New York University (NYU) and City College of New York (CCNY). He also was a visiting professor for shorter period of times at research institutes in Denmark, France, UK and USA, where he was also appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society. Recently, he was also appointed Fellow of the Israel Physical Society.  His research activities in Israel and abroad are sponsored by national and international research foundations.

     

    Prof. Yeshurun has served in many capacities at Bar-Ilan University, including Head of the Department of Physics, Dean of Students, Vice-Rector and Rector of the University. He also served as a Rector of Orot-Israel College in Elkana and was an active member of Israeli national bodies such as  the National Research and Development Council, the National Steering Committee for Superconductivity and the National Steering Committees for the Absorption of Immigrant Scientists. He also was the Chairman of the International Advisory Board (IAB) for Academic Freedom which he established at Bar-Ilan University on April 2005.

    Publications
    Patents

     

    Patents

    Fault current limiters (FCL) with the Cores Saturated by superconducting coils
    European Patent Application No. 05779420.8

    Superconducting hybrid device: electromagnetic energy storage, current limiting and magnetic separation
    Y. Wolfus, A. Friedman, Y. Yeshurun and E. Perel
    Provisional patent application submitted, 2012


    Improved Fault Current Limiter with Saturated Core
    Y. Wolfus, A. Friedman, Y. Yeshurun, V. Rozenshtein and Z.Bar-Haim
    WO PCT application submitted, 2010
    AU2010288086 (A1)


    Fault current limiters (FCL) with the cores saturated by copper coils
    Y. Wolfus, A. Friedman, Y. Yeshurun, V. Rozenshtein and Z.Bar-Haim
    WO PCT application submitted, 2010
    US2009021875 (A1)


    Superconducting coil and a method for its manufacture
    A. Friedman, Y. Wolfus, Y. Yeshurun, Z. Bar-Haim, N. Pundak
    Abandoned
    Patent No. US 20060071747


    A Fault current limiters (FCL) with the cores saturated by superconducting coils
    Y. Wolfus, A. Friedman, Y. Yeshurun, V. Rozenshtein and Z.Bar-Haim
    Patent pending (WO2007/029224)

    US2006158803 (A1)

    Method for manufacturing superconducting coils
    Y. Wolfus, A. Friedman, Y. Yeshurun, V. Rozenshtein and Z.Bar-Haim
    US patent application US2006071747(2005)

    Fault current limiters (FCL) with the cores saturated by superconducting coils
    Y. Wolfus, A Friedman, V. Rozenshtein, Y. Yeshurun, M. Zarudi, N. Shaked
    WO 2004/068670 12/8/2004 (2004).
    Patent No. US 2006/0158803

    A device for measuring the magnetic field vector and a method of fabricating thereof
    Y. Abulafia, Y. Wolfus, A. Shaulov, Y. Yeshurun, D. Majer, Y. Paltiel, H.Shtrikman, and E. Zeldov
    Patent No. US 6,366,085 B1 (1997).

    A method and a converter topology for simultaneous charge/ discharge
    A. Friedman, N. Shaked, E. Perel, M. Sinvani, Y. Wolfus, and Y. Yeshurun
    Patent No. US 6,072,307

    The design and construction of temperature sensors to avoid errors due to self-cooling
    E. Goldratt, A.J. Greenfield and Y. Yeshurun
    Abandoned (1979).

     

    Last Updated Date : 12/03/2024