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Efrat Lifshitz

Efrat Lifshitz (Hebrew: אפרת ליפשיץ) is an Israeli chemist at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Solid-State Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Technion-IIT). Lifshitz's research is known for pioneering advances in developing and studying low-dimensional semiconductors by exploring the relationship between their optical properties and magnetism.[1][2][3]

Efrat Lifshitz
Efrat Lifshitz, Technion
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Haifa, Israel
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Michigan
Known forThe pioneering work on low-dimensional semiconductors, exploring the interface between magnetism and their optical properties
Scientific career
FieldsSemiconductors, Nanoscience, Colloidal Chemistry, Magneto-optics, Spintronics
InstitutionsTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorAnthony Francis (University of Michigan)

Biography

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Lifshitz was born in 1956 in Haifa, Israel. She obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1979 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in Physical Chemistry from the University of Michigan, U.S.A, working under the supervision of Prof. A. Francis.[4] After receiving her Ph.D., Efrat spent one year (1984-85) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Lifshitz was a research associate at the University of Michigan from 1986 to 1990, immediately after which she joined the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion-IIT as an assistant professor. Lifshitz has been a full professor since 2005, leading a semiconductors research laboratory. Since 2009, She is also the Matwei Gunsbuourgh Academic Chair at the Technion-IIT.[1][2][3] Since January 2024, Efrat Lifshitz has been the Dean of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion-IIT.[5]

Efrat Lifshitz is married, lives in Haifa, and have three children and four grandchildren.

Research and publications

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Lifshitz's research focuses on developing the colloidal nanostructures[6] of II-VI and IV-VI families of semiconductor metal chalcogenides,[7] various van der Waals materials (layered semiconductor materials) of transition metal dichalcogenides, iodides and phosphor-tri-chalcogenides,[8] and two- and three-dimensional perovskite materials, while exploring their magneto-optical properties using state-of-the-art, homemade methodologies, thereby uncovering their size-dependent fundamental features.[9] Lifshitz's expertise in methodologies such as Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR),[10] magneto-optical confocal microscopy, and circularly polarized photoluminescence has enabled a notable contribution in the detection of Rashba effects due to spin-orbit coupling and symmetry breaking, Zeeman interactions, Coulomb and exchange interactions, and Landé g-factors in nanomaterials.[11] Current research interests include investigating the role of surface-interface centers of core-shell nanocrystals in suppressing the interband Auger decay,[12] developing and characterizing branched nanostructures,[13] proving anisotropies in perovskite materials,[14] and exposing the correlation between long-range magnetic order and optical properties of van der Waals materials.[8] Lifshitz is also involved in corroborating her experimental research with theoretical modeling via Density Functional Theory (DFT) and effective mass approximation method.[11]

Efrat has over 260 scientific publications in the form of several original research articles, invited reviews, and book chapters.[15] She also serves on the editorial board of many peer-reviewed journals. Lifshitz has been a fellow of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg in 2015.[16] She has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Lyon1, the University of Hamburg, and the University of California, Berkeley.[17]

Efrat Lifshitz has won awards for her scientific contributions, including the Henry Taub Prizes for Academic Excellence,[18] the 2016 Israel Vacuum Society Excellence Award for Research, and the Tenne Family Prize in 2015,[19] which was awarded by the Israel Chemical Society in recognition of her pioneering work in the development of novel magneto-optical methodologies to study the properties of materials at the nanoscale, and UK-Israel Lectureship Award at Oxford University in 2015.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b Prof. Efrat Lifshitz - Technion
  2. ^ a b Prof. Efrat Lifshitz - Homepage
  3. ^ a b ORCID - Efrat Lifshitz
  4. ^ Anthony Francis, University of Michigan
  5. ^ Dean, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
  6. ^ Kagan, Cherie R.; Lifshitz, Efrat; Sargent, Edward H.; Talapin, Dmitri V. (2016). "Building devices from colloidal quantum dots". Science. 353 (6302): 885. doi:10.1126/science.aac5523. JSTOR 44710463. PMID 27563099. S2CID 35833653.
  7. ^ Jang, Youngjin; Shapiro, Arthur; Isarov, Maya; Rubin-Brusilovski, Anna; Safran, Aron; Budniak, Adam K.; Horani, Faris; Dehnel, Joanna; Sashchiuk, Aldona; Lifshitz, Efrat (2017). "Interface control of electronic and optical properties in IV–VI and II–VI core/shell colloidal quantum dots: a review". Chemical Communications. 53 (6): 1002–1024. doi:10.1039/C6CC08742F. eISSN 1364-548X. ISSN 1359-7345. PMID 27995231.
  8. ^ a b Budniak, Adam K.; Zelewski, Szymon J.; Birowska, Magdalena; Woźniak, Tomasz; Bendikov, Tatyana; Kauffmann, Yaron; Amouyal, Yaron; Kudrawiec, Robert; Lifshitz, Efrat (12 February 2022). "Spectroscopy and Structural Investigation of Iron Phosphorus Trisulfide—FePS3". Advanced Optical Materials. 10 (7): 2102489. arXiv:2108.01742. doi:10.1002/adom.202102489. eISSN 2195-1071. ISSN 2195-1071. S2CID 236912783.
  9. ^ UNSW School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering Magneto-optical properties of colloidal quantum dots - Lecture, 2015
  10. ^ Harchol, Adi; Barak, Yahel; Hughes, Kira E.; Hartstein, Kimberly H.; Jöbsis, Huygen j.; Prins, P. Tim; de Mello Donegá, Celso; Gamelin, Daniel R.; Lifshitz, Efrat (1 August 2022). "Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Cu-Doped CdSe/CdS and CuInS2 Colloidal Quantum Dots". ACS Nano. 16 (8): 12866–12877. doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c05130. eISSN 1936-086X. hdl:1874/426193. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 35913892. S2CID 251222261.
  11. ^ a b Isarov, Maya; Tan, Liang Z.; Bodnarchuk, Maryna I.; Kovalenko, Maksym V.; Rappe, Andrew M.; Lifshitz, Efrat (5 July 2017). "Rashba Effect in a Single Colloidal CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystal Detected by Magneto-Optical Measurements". Nano Letters. 17 (8): 5020–5026. Bibcode:2017NanoL..17.5020I. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02248. eISSN 1530-6992. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 28657325.
  12. ^ Rabouw, Freddy T.; Vaxenburg, Roman; Bakulin, Artem A.; van Dijk-Moes, Relinde J. A.; Bakker, Huib J.; Rodina, Anna; Lifshitz, Efrat; Efros, Alexander L.; Koenderink, A. Femius; Vanmaekelbergh, Daniël (28 September 2015). "Dynamics of Intraband and Interband Auger Processes in Colloidal Core–Shell Quantum Dots". ACS Nano. 9 (10): 10366–10376. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b04491. eISSN 1936-086X. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 26389562.
  13. ^ Researchers Working To Turn Any Sunglasses Into Night-Vision Goggles! NoCamels (Technology News) - February 24, 2014
  14. ^ Kostadinov-Mutzafi, Alyssa; Tilchin, Jenya; Shapiro, Arthur; Dirin, Dmitry N.; Kovalenko, Maksym V.; Tan, Liang Z.; Lifshitz, Efrat (8 July 2022). "Impact of anisotropy in spin-orbit coupling on the magneto-optical properties of bulk lead halide perovskites". Physical Review B. 106 (3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.035303. eISSN 2469-9969. ISSN 2469-9950. S2CID 250403425.
  15. ^ Efrat Lifshitz - Google Scholar
  16. ^ Efrat Lifshitz - Freiburg Fellow
  17. ^ a b Efrat Lifshitz (website)
  18. ^ Awards & Prizes At Technion Board of Governors (2019)
  19. ^ Tenne Family Prize
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