User:Ilan Ben-Zvi/sandbox

Abstract
llan Ben-Zvi is an Israeli born US physicist. His most recent positions are a BNL Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University and Senior Scientist with tenure, Associate Chair for Accelerator R&D at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)’s Collider-Accelerator Department and Chief Scientist of the Brookhaven Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). He has been at Stony Brook and Brookhaven since 1988. Ben-Zvi served as the Director of the ATF for 15 years, where he worked on advanced accelerator concepts, free-electron lasers and high-brightness laser-photocathode RF guns. He is active in R&D on superconducting RF, photocathode injectors, electron-hadron colliders and advanced accelerator concepts.

Early life and education
Ilan Ben-Zvi was born and grew up in Rishon LeZion, and was the great-grandson of Aharon Mordechai Friman, one of the founders of the town. Ben-Zvi earned B.Sc. with Distinction in Mathematics and Physics, 1965, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 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 of Physics Stony Brook University 1988-1990.

Career
Ben-Zvi’s current research interests are RF superconductivity, electron cooling, high-brightness, high-power electron sources, Energy Recovery Linacs, electron-hadron colliders and high-power Free Electron Lasers. He has extensive experience over 40 years in the development of superconducting linear accelerators, free-electron lasers and high-brightness RF electron guns. 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 as well as 56 MHz storage cavity for RHIC, and the Double Quarter Wave Resonator crab cavity for the LHC. He also initiated the R&D on the diamond-amplified photocathode and funneled polarized electron beams.

Ben-Zvi was honored extensively by his peers: Elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected in 2007 as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2009 as a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the 1999 IEEE/NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award, the 2001 BNL Science and Technology Award, the 2007 Free-Electron Laser Prize and the 2008 IEEE/NPSS Merit Award.

He served leading roles in various meetings and panels, including HEPAP, and several HEPAP Subpanels, in particular on Accelerator R&D. He served on the National Academies Committee for the Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for Naval Applications. Currently he is the Divisional Associate Editor of Physics Review Letters, and international committees, such as the Advisory Committee for TRIUMF. He initiated the joint accelerator conferences web site now known as JACoW. He is the author or co-author of over six hundred publications.