| Ilan
Ben-Zvi is a Senior Scientist with tenure and Associate Chair for
Superconducting Accelerator R&D at BNL's Collider-Accelerator
Department (at Brookhaven since 1988) and Adjunct Professor of Physics
at Stony Brook University (since 1991).
Ben-Zvi's current research interests are RF superconductivity, electron
cooling, high-brightness beams, Energy Recovery Linacs (ERL) and
high-power Free Electron Lasers. He has extensive experience over
38 years in the development of superconducting linear accelerators,
free-electron lasers and high-brightness RF electron guns. At BNL
he initiated the ERL-based electron ion collider eRHIC and the ERL-based
electron cooler for RHIC - two applications that require ampere-class
superconducting RF ERL with a high-brightness. He led the development
of superconducting accelerator elements for ampere-class ERL such
as a 703.75 MHz 5-cell cavity and an injector based on SRF technology.
His research team is constructing the highest current ERL, aiming
at 0.5 ampere.
Ben-Zvi earned B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Physics, 1965, from
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics,
1970, from the Weizmann Institute of Science; Research Associate,
Stanford University 1970-1975; Senior Scientist Weizmann Institute
1975-1980; Visiting Associate Professor Stony Brook University 1980-1982;
Senior Research Fellow, Weizmann Institute 1983-1988; Visiting Professor,
Stony Brook University 1988-1990.
Ben-Zvi has been honored repeatedly by his peers: Elected in 1994
as a Fellow of the American Physical Society “For contributions
to the development of superconducting quarter wave resonator structures
and superconducting radio frequency quadrupoles for the acceleration
of heavy ion beams and for contributions to the development of the
Accelerator Test Facility at BNL.” Elected in 2007 as Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for
distinguished scientific and technical contributions to the field
of accelerator physics and service to the physics community.”
Senior Member of IEEE since 2003. Received the 1999 IEEE/NPSS Particle
Accelerator Science and Technology Award "For contributions
to high-brightness electron beam technology and superconducting
RF technology and for his leadership of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s
Accelerator Test Facility.” Received the 2001 BNL Science
and Technology Award. Received the 2007 Free-Electron Laser Prize
“in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Free Electron
Laser Science and Technology.”
Ben-Zvi served as the Director of the Brookhaven Accelerator Test
Facility for 15 years, where he worked on advanced accelerator concepts,
free-electron lasers and high-brightness laser-photocathode RF guns.
He is past chair the BNL Council. He served leading roles in various
meetings and panels, including the HEPAP Subpanel on Advanced Accelerator
R&D (AKA the Marx Panel) and was selected to serve on the National
Academies Committee for the Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron
Laser Technology for Naval Applications. He served as co-chair of
the international Free-Electron Laser Conference FEL’95, Program
chair of PAC’99 and FEL’01, Chair 1993 of Towards Short
Wavelength FEL Workshop, 2004 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
and many other scientific meetings. His public service roles include
past Secretary-Treasurer of APS/DPB and Chair of the IEEE/NPSS Particle
Accelerator Science and Technology Committee and service on the
editorial board of PRST-AB, initiated the joint accelerator conferences
web site JACoW. He is the author or co-author of over three hundred
and sixty publications.
Citation: For outstanding contributions to
the fields of high energy physics accelerators and free electron
lasers.
Ilan Ben-Zvi can be reached at Brookhaven National Lab, PO Box
5000, Upton, NY 11973-5000; Phone: +1 631 344 5143; Fax: +1 631
344 5954; E-mail: benzvi@bnl.gov.
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