Obtained the B.Sc. (Summa cum laude, 1967), M.Sc. (1970) and D.Sc. (1972) degrees at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1973 [professor since 1982, incumbent, Abronson Family Chair of Chemistry, since 1989]. Served as Head of the Physical Chemistry Division (19841986) and as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (1989-1991), as well as on many Technion committees and at the Technion Faculty Union.
Electronic structure: Excited atoms, confined atoms, quantum dots, atoms embedded in plasmas.
Applications of q-analysis: q-bosons, q-Stirling numbers, the q-BCH formula.
Representation theory of the symmetric group. Partition identities.
