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
Affiliate faculty, Institute of Advanced Computational Studies
Affiliate faculty, Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation
Stony Brook University
Joint Appointment
Senior Chemist
Chemistry Division 555A
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Phone: (631) 344-3013
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BNL research group: Structure and Dynamics of Applied Nanomaterials
Group phone: (631) 344-3494
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
- Professor, Stony Brook University, 2016-present
- Professor, Yeshiva University, 2007-2016
- Associate Professor, Yeshiva University, 2001-2007
- Research Scientist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-2001
- Research Associate, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995-1996
- Research Assistant, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1990-1995
- Research Engineer, Institute of Acoustics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1987-1990
Sabbatical Appointments
- Guest scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Mar 3-Jun 30, 2024
- Guest scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland, Feb 2-28, 2024
- Guest scientist, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany, Jan 2-30, 2024
- Visiting scientist, BNL, 2009
Honors & Awards
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017
- Weston Visiting Professor Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2015-2017, 2019-2021 and 2022-2025
- Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Yeshiva University, 2003
Synergistic Activities
- Member, SUNY-AMAT Science Advisory Council, 2019-present
- Spokesperson and founding co-principal investigator, Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium (SCC) at BNL, 2004-present
- Founding principal investigator, Defense Synchrotron Consortium (DSC) at BNL, 2021-present
- Chair, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Yeshiva University, 2008-2012
- Chair, Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, 2001-2016
- Organizer, instructor: short courses on X-ray absorption spectroscopy in US (BNL), Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland: 2002-present