Reshef Tenne

Short Bio:

Prof. Tenne studied in the Hebrew University for his BSc, MSc and PhD (1966-1976) and was a post-doc in Battelle Institute in Geneva (1976-1979). He joined the Weizmann Institute in 1979 and was promoted to full professor in 1995. He published 400 original papers and about 80 invited chapters in books and review articles. He served as the head of the Department of Materials and Interfaces of the Weizmann Institute (2000-2007), the founder and Director of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science (2003-2014) and held the (inaugural) Drake Family Chair of Nanotechnolgy (2005-2014). He served in many scientific public organizations and boards.

For the last 40 years his research has focused on the synthesis and the properties of layered compounds (2D-materials), like WS2 (MoS2). In 1992 he discovered that nanoparticles of 2D-materials form inorganic fullerene-like (IF) structures and nanotubes (INT). He studied the synthesis of such nanoparticles and their properties in detail and developed many applications based on IF/INT.

He received many awards and recognitions. He was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences in 2011, Academia Europaea in 2012 and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2021). Among others, he recently received the EMET Prize (2020) in exact sciences from the Prime Minister of Israel, the ACS Award for the Chemistry of Materials (2023) and the Von Hippel Award of the MRS (2023).


Home Page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/tenne/