Anatoly I. Frenkel, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Affiliate faculty
– Department of Chemistry
– Institute of Advanced Computational Studies
– Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation
Stony Brook University
Joint Appointment
Senior Chemist
Chemistry Division
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973
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BNL research group: Structure and Dynamics of Applied Nanomaterials
Research Interests
- Physico-chemical properties and mechanistic studies of functional nanomaterials
- Heterogeneous and photo-catalysis with nanoparticles, clusters and “single atoms”
- Multimodal methodologies for materials’ characterization
- Machine Learning methods for materials research and discovery
- Development of synchrotron-based techniques and data analysis methods
Education
- Post-Doctoral Fellow (Physics), University of Washington, Seattle. 1995-1996 (advisor: E. A. Stern)
- Ph.D. (Physics) Tel Aviv University, Israel: 1995 (advisor: A. V. Voronel)
- M.Sc. (Physics) St. Petersburg University, Russia: 1987 (advisor: L. N. Labzovsky)
Appointments
- Deputy Chair, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 2025-present
- Professor, Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 2016-present
- Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, 2007-2016
- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, 2001-2007
- Research Scientist, F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-2001
- Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995-1996
- Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1990-1995
- Research Engineer, Institute of Acoustics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1987-1990
Sabbatical Appointments
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, March-June, 2024
- Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland, February, 2024
- Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany, January, 2024
- Visiting scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2009
Honors & Awards
- American Ceramic Society Ross Coffin Purdy Award, 2025
- Schulich Visiting Professor Lectureship award, Technion, Israel, 2025
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017
- Selected for “Top-10 Discoveries and Scientific Achievements” at BNL, 2017 and 2018
- Fellow, Empire Innovation Program, New York State, 2017
- Weston Visiting Professor Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2015-2027
- Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Yeshiva University, 2003
Synergistic Activities
- Member, SUNY-AMAT Science Advisory Council, 2019-2024
- Spokesperson and founding co-principal investigator, Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium (SCC) at BNL, 2004-2025
- Founding principal investigator, Defense Synchrotron Consortium (DSC) at BNL, 2021-2023
- Chair, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Yeshiva University, 2008-2012
- Organizer, instructor: short courses on X-ray absorption spectroscopy in USA, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland: 2002-present