Prof. Lior Klein

Personal:

Born:               March 18, 1959

Status:             Married + 3 children

Education:

1987-1991:      Ph.D., Physics, Tel-Aviv University

                       "Magnetic Interactions and Disorder – Phase transitions in Dilute Spin-Glasses and High-                         Temperature Superconductors"

                        Supervisor: Prof. Amnon Aharony

1984-1987:      M.Sc., Physics, Tel-Aviv University (with distinction).

                        "Effects of Dzyaloshinski-Moriya Interaction on Magnetic Phase Transitions"

                         Supervisor: Prof. Amnon Aharony

1980-1984:      B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University (with distinction).

Academic  Positions:

2010-present   Professor, Bar-Ilan University

2011-present   Edmond J. Safra Professor of Physics

2003-2010:      Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University

1997-2003:      Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University

1993-1997:      Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University, Stanford

1991-1993:      Postdoctoral fellow, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan

1990-1991:      Instructor in Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv

1984-1990:      Assistant in Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv

Leadership and Management Roles:

2024-today      Coordinator of MultiSpin.AI - a Horizon project (EIC Pathfinder)

2017-2022        Chair of the Department of Physics

2007-2010       Coordinator of  Edmond J. Safra  program to strengthen the group of superconductivity                             and magnetism in the physics department.

2004-2022       Member of the scientific committee and in-charge of the nano-magnetism research                                  center at Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology

Fellowships and Prizes:

1993: Rothschild Fellow

1994: Wolfson Fellow

2000: Olschvang Prize (awarded by Israel Academy of Sciences)

Patents:

Magnetic Memory:

Magnetoelectronic Device Based on Colossal Magnetoresistive Thin Films, US Patent 7,684,147

Multi-state magnetic memory device, US Patent 10,204,678

Magnetic sensors:

Planar Hall effect sensors, US Patent 10,921,389

High resolution planar Hall effect sensors having plural orientations and method of operating the same to measure plural magnetic field component   US Patent 9,606,195

Compensating for an electromagnetic interference induced deviation of an electron beam, US Patent 11,276,545

Organization of conferences and workshops:

Lior Klein – chair of the organizing committee (2001), "The 47^th meeting of the Israel Physica Society", Tel-Aviv, Israel (conference)

Yigal Meir, Ora Entin and Lior Klein (2004), "Current problems in condensed matter physics: phase transitions, disorder and mesoscopics", Eilat, Israel (workshop).

Lior Klein, Guy Deutscher and Gad Koren (2007), "Superconductivity and Magnetism in the Perovskites and other Novel Materials", Ramat-Gan, Israel (workshop)

Albert Fert and Lior Klein (2009): New Frontiers in Spintronics, Jerusalem, Israel (workshop)

Efrat Shimshoni and Lior Klein (2014): The Sixth Indo-Israeli Meeting on Frontiers in condensed matter physics, Jerusalem, Israel (workshop)

Lior Klein and Amos Sharoni (2015): Recent Advances in Spintronics, Safed, Israel (workshop)

Publications:

See Google Scholar

Citations 5157  H-factor 36     (as of 8.6.25)

Public Activity:

In 2008, I was recognized by Ramat Gan's local newspaper as one of the 'Men of the Year' for leading a successful community campaign to preserve "Gan Hakofim", a historic park that was threatened by construction plans (the website of the campaign).