Rafi Bistritzer | |
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רפי ביסטריצר | |
| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) |
| Education | Tel Aviv University |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Rafi Bistritzer (Hebrew:רפי ביסטריצר; born 1974 inIsrael) is an Israeli physicist, and manager of an algorithms group atApplied Materials. He is the winner of the 2020Wolf Prize inPhysics, together withPablo Jarillo-Herrero andAllan MacDonald, for "pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene."[1]
Bistritzer received a bachelor's degree in physics fromTel Aviv University in 2000. He received an MSc in physics in 2003, and a PhD in physics in 2007, both from theWeizmann Institute of Science. He moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Texas at Austin, under the supervision ofAlan H. MacDonald, where he studied the theoretical physics ofbilayer graphene, and specifically twisted bilayer graphene. Their calculations predicted that two parallel graphene sheets twisted at an angle of 1.1 degrees relative to each other (an angle known as the "magic angle") would host flat moiré bands and thus possibly correlated states.[2]
MacDonald's and Bistritzer's work served as the basis for later experimental research by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero atMIT, whose group validated the correctness of the calculations in 2018.[3] The result was a breakthrough in the field oftwistronics. For their work, Bistritzer, MacDonald, and Jarillo-Herrero were jointly awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in physics.
In March 2011 Bistritzer returned to Israel and joined Aspect Imaging, where he worked as a physicist and led a research and developmentrheology team. In 2013 he moved toMedtronic as the manager of the physics group. Since December 2015, he has been working atApplied Materials as the director of an algorithms group that focuses on computer vision and machine learning. In 2020 he was appointed as an associate professor[4] in Tel Aviv University.
Bistritzer currently lives inPetah Tikva, Israel.[5]
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