Dr. Michaeli is visiting us from September 02 to September 14, 2018 in the framework of the Dresden Fellowship Programm

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Dr. Karen Michaeli is a young scientist in the Condensed Matter Department (CMD) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, one of the leading basic research scientific institutions in Israel as well as worldwide. She studied Physics and received her BSc from Tel-Aviv University and her MSc and PhD degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the guidance of Prof. Alexander Finkel’stein. She obtained the very prestigious Pappalardo postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at Weizmann Institute of Science in 2013.
During her stay, she worked in the problem of spin-selective transport in helical molecules, a topic discovered few years ago by Prof. Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute, Israel) and Prof. Helmut Zacharias (University of Münster, Germany).