13 Facts About Joseph Klafter

Joseph Klafter is an Israeli chemical physics professor who is the Heineman Chair of Physical Chemistry at Tel Aviv University, and was the eighth President of Tel Aviv University from 2009 to 2019.

Joseph Klafter won the 2020 Israel Prize in the fields of Chemistry and Physics.

Joseph Klafter was born in Tel Aviv in Mandatory Palestine in 1945 to Slovak immigrant parents who came to Israel illegally in 1939 as part of Aliyah Bet.

Joseph Klafter attended elementary and high school in Rishon LeZion.

Joseph Klafter then engaged in post-doctoral studies in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then worked in research and development at Exxon for eight years.

Joseph Klafter is a professor of chemical physics at Tel Aviv University.

Joseph Klafter joined the Tel Aviv University Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Chemistry in 1987, and became a full professor in 1989.

Joseph Klafter was the Gordon Chair in Chemistry from 1998 to 2003, and was named Heineman Chair of Physical Chemistry in 2003.

Joseph Klafter was the eighth president of Tel Aviv University, for two terms from 2009 to 2019, when he was succeeded by Ariel Porat.

Joseph Klafter is the co-author of First Steps in Random Walks: From Tools to Applications and has published over 400 scientific articles and edited 18 books.

Joseph Klafter is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Joseph Klafter has won the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prize, the Weizmann Prize for Sciences, the Rothschild Prize in Chemistry, and the Israel Chemical Society Prize.

Joseph Klafter won the 2020 Israel Prize in the fields of Chemistry and Physics.