Resume of Prof. Itamar Willner

Current: Chairman of the institute of chemistry, Hebrew University

       清华大学 化学系 客座教授

Education:

Born: 1947, Bucharest;

Ph.D. 1978 Hebrew University;

Senior Lecturer 1981;

Associate Professor 1983;

Professor 1986;

Awards and Honors:

以色列科学院院士

欧洲科学与艺术院院士

1997年美国 AAAS Fellow

1998年德国马普协会国际合作奖

2002年以色列化学奖

International Scientific Activities

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board : Journal of the American Chemical Society; Langmuir

Representative of Israel in the Commission on Photochemistry of IUPAC

Representative of Israel in the European Photochemistry Association

Research Topics:

Bioelectronics: Electronic transduction of biological events, bioelectrocatalysis, biosensors related to enzyme sensors, immunosensors and DNA sensors. Transduction of recognition processes by means of amperometric, potentiometric, impedance, piezoelectric, field effect transistor and surface plasmon resonance signals. Application of the systems for the development of analytical, clinical, environmental and forensic diagnosis. Development of biofuel cells.

Molecular electronics and molecular machinery: Integration of molecular assemblies with electronic transducers to yield unique electronic and sensoric functions such as molecular rectifiers or molecular diodes. Design of molecular shuttles, molecular beads and molecular rotors.

Nanoparticle superstructures on surfaces. Development of methodologies for the assembly of layered three-dimensional nanoparticle-molecular crosslinked arrays onto electrodes, and their use for the selective electrochemical sensing, photoelectrochemistry and electrocatalysis. Application of molecular receptors, oligonucleotide-DNA, donor-acceptors and host-guests as crosslinking elements.

Molecular optoelectronics and optobioelectronics: Designing of molecular photoswitches, electronic and photonic transduction of photoswitchable chemical functionalities. Photoswitching of biological functions such as biocatalytic transformations of binding interactions. Photochemical switching of molecular redox functions and magnetic functions. Use of the photoactive molecular or biomolecular assemblies as information storage systems, capable of photonic recording and electronic transduction.

DNA-based electronic and photonic systems: Photonic and electronic DNA-sensors, assembly of DNA-chips and DNA-based computers. Electronic transduction and amplification of DNA-sensing. Photoelectrochemical transduction of oligonucleotide-DNA interactions. Photonic transduction of DNA-sensing using photoactive vesicle-fusion, surface plasmon resonance, fluorescence methods.

Photoinduced electron transfer and artificial photosynthesis: Photochemistry in organized media and microheterogeneous environments. Photochemical transformations in supramolecular assemblies. Vectorial electron transfer and photochemical switches. Biomimetic photosynthetic transformations and artificial photosynthesis, CO2-fixation, photolysis of water, nitrogen fixation. Semisynthetic photoenzymes, photoinduced electron transfer in proteins.