Yitzhak Apeloig#
| Membership Number: | 4348 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://schulich.technion.ac.il/faculty_member.php?id=18 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001- 2009 President of Technion
- 2011- present Distinguished Academic Chair, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- 1996 - present Co-Director, Lise Meitner – Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Technion
- 2011 spring Visiting Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
- 1983 - present Professor of Chemistry, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 2010 spring Visiting JSPS Professor, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
- 2010 summer Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- 1999 spring Visiting JSPS Professor, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
- 1997 summer Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Universität Ulm, Germany
- 1993 - 2011 Chair in Chemistry, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 1983 - 1984 Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 1976 - Initial Academic appointment at the Technion
Fields of Scholarship
- Organosilicon chemistry
- Physical organic chemistry
- Computational chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member of the Intenational Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2011 Order of Merit (First Degree) of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2010 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Honorary Member
- 2010 American Chemical Society Frederic Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry
- 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Fellow
- 2008 Honorary Member, Academia de Ciencias, Mexico
- 2007 Wacker Silicone Award, Germany
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate of Science (Dr. Honoris Causa) Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2002 The Israel Chemical Society Prize
- 2010,1999,1991- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award
- 1996 Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry
- 2010,1994 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award
- 1998 Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion, Israel
- 1997,1993,1986 Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion
- 1991,1985 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Visiting Professor
- 1974- The Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis
