Yitzhak Apeloig, Curriculum Vitae Personal Data Address and Telephone: Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel Tel. and Fax: (972-4) 8293721 Fax: (972-4) 8233735 E-Mail: apeloig@technion.ac.il Place and Date of Birth: Buchara, Russia - 1.9.1944 Immigration to Israel: 1.9.1947 Family Status: Married to Zipora Zaltzberg + 2 children: Shai (1971) and Noa (1975). Present Employment President of the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology 2001- Professor of Chemistry and incumbent of a Chair in Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Co-Director, Lise Meitner - Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry. At the Technion since 1976, Professor of Chemistry since 1988, Chair in Chemistry since 1993. Chairman of the Faculty of Chemistry 1995 - 1999. Education B.Sc. - Chemistry and Physics (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 1964-1967 M.Sc. - Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Mentor: Zvi Rappoport 1967-1969 Ph.D. - Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Mentor: Zvi Rappoport 1969-1974 Post Doctoral - With Paul v. Ragu? Schleyer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Close collaboration with John A. Pople, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 1974-1976 Sabbatical - With Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 1983-1984 Academic Appointments Research Associate, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 1967-1973 Instructor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 1973-1974 Research Fellow, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1976-1977 Lecturer, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1977-1979 Senior Lecturer, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1979-1983 Associate Professor, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1983-1988 Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel 1986 Professor, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1988-present Chair in Chemistry, Technion, Haifa, Israel 1993-present Visiting Academic Appointments Research Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA 1974-1976 Visiting DAAD Fellow Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Erlangen, W. Germany Summers 1979, 1985, 1992 Visiting Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Spring 1983 Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 1983-1984 Visiting DAAD Professor, Technische Universit?t Berlin Summers 1985, 1991 Visiting JSPS Professor, Kyushu University, Japan Summer 1991 Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Technische Universit?t Berlin 3-9/1994, Summer 1997 Visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Universit?t Ulm Summer 1997 Visiting JSPS Professor, Sendai University, Japan Spring 1999 Visiting Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Summer 2000 Prizes, Awards, Honors and Research Fellowships Annual Prize for Distinction in Chemistry Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 1965-1967 The Prize for Distinguished Student of the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 1971 The Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis 1974 Bat-Sheba de Rothschild Fellow 1977-1978 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship 1979 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Visiting Professor 1985, 1991 The Louis Klein Visiting Professorship in Australian Universities 1986 Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association 1986, 1993, 1997 Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion (The New England Prize) 1988 The Henri Gutwirth Prize for Excellence in Research,Technion 1991, 1993 Included in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", Beginning Second Edition 1993 Included in the "International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement", Beginning Third Edition 1993 Incumbent of a Chair in Chemistry 1993 Israel-Italy National Council for Research and Development, Senior Scientist Exchange Fellow 1993 Alexander von Humboldt - Lise Meitner Senior Research Award 1994-1999 Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry 1996 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award 1991, 1999 C. A Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, USA 2002 The Israel Chemical Society Prize 2002 Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 2006 The Wacker Prize 2007 Honorary Member, Academia de Ciencias, Mexico 2008 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2009 American Chemical Society Fredric Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry 2010 Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2010 Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences 1. 170th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 25-29, 1975. 2. International Symposium on "Organic Reaction Mechanisms. New Concepts and Prospects", Fukuoka, Japan, August 18-21, 1982. 3. The 8th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan, August 24-29, 1986. 4. Kyushu Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, "Zen" on Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Kyushu University, Japan, September 1-3, 1986. 5. The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan,October 28-29, 1986. 6. Swedish-Israeli Symposium on "New Trends in Organic Chemistry", The Weizmann Institute of Science, March 15-19, 1987. 7. 5th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel, August 30-September 3, 1987. 8. 1st Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on "Influence of Steric and Electronic Effects on Molecular Crystalline Structure," Florence, Italy, October 21-23, 1987. 9. Workshop on "The Structure of Small Molecules and Ions", Jerusalem, Israel, December 13-18, 1987. 10. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva,February 9-10, 1988. 11. Symposium on "Carbocations and Other Reactive Intermediates", T?bingen, Federal Republic of Germany, August 17-19, 1988. 12. Symposium on "Strain and its Implications in Organic Chemistry", Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, August 28 - September 2, 1988. 13. Second International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, July 17-22, 1989. 14. Second European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR II), Padova, Italy, August 27 - September 1, 1989. 15. Symposium in Memory of Professor David Ginsburg, Haifa, Israel, September 19-20, 1989. 16. Symposium Honoring the 60th Birthday of Professor Paul v. Ragu? Schleyer, April 25-27, 1990. 17. The annual meeting of the Japanese Chemical Society, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan,September 22-25, 1991. 18. Symposium on "Interfacing theory and experiment in the study of organic processes", Okazaki, Japan, September 30-October 2, 1991. 19. Kyushu International Symposium on "Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC-4)", Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, October 4-8, 1991. 20. 2nd Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on "Electronic Effects on Molecular Structure", Herzelia, Israel, February 3-4, 1992. 21. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Technion, Haifa, February 12-13, 1992. 22. Special Symposium organized by the Israel Chemical Society honoring John A. Pople, 1992 Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 18 May 1992. Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences (cont'd) . 23. Toronto International Conference on Organic Reactive Intermediates, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, August 2-7, 1992. 24. The 11th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA, August 2-7, 1992. 25. The 5th Conference on Carbene and Carbene Analogues Chemistry, University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia, September 16-18, 1992. 26. The Third World Congress of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC '93), Toyohashi, Japan, July 18-24, 1993. 27. The 10th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Poznan, Poland,August 15-20, 1993. 28. Organosilicon Polymers, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland, August 22-24, 1993. 29. Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, October 4-7, 1993. 30. The 59th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, January 31 - February 1, 1994 31. 1st Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on Physical Organic Chemistry, Algehro, Sardinia, Italy,June 26-30, 1994. 32. The 3rd Munich Silicondays Conference, Munich, Germany, August 1-2, 1994. 33. The 2nd Swedish-Israeli Symposium on New Trends in Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden, August 14-18, 1994. 34. The 12th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Padova, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 1994. 35. The 60th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, February 7-8, 1995. 36. Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC-VI), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, July 25-28, 1995. 37. The Tsukuba Conference on New Aspects in the Chemistry of Reactive Intermediates, Tsukuba University, Japan, August 21-23, 1996. 38. The 13th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Inchon, Korea, August 25-29, 1996. 39. The 11th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, September 1-6, 1996. 40. The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, February 3-5, 1997. 41. The 30th Organosilicon Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada,May 30-31, 1997. 42. The 9th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Emory University Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 9-14, 1997. 43. The 2nd Israeli-Czech Meeting on Molecular Dynamics, Jerusalem, Israel, May 3-5, 1998. Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences (cont'd) 44. Symposium on the Interplay Between Theory and Experiment, Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium, June 5-6, 1998. 45. Symposium on Synergism of Experimental and Theoretical Chemistry, Mexico City, Mexico, August 13-14, 1998. 46. The 1999 Frontiers in Biomedical Research Symposium, Palm Springs, California, USA, February 7-10, 1999. 47. The 1999 Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, Yokahama, Japan, March 28 - April 1, 1999. 48. The 12th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Sendai, Japan, May 23-28, 1999. 49. The 12th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Post-Symposium in Kyoto, Japan, May 29-31, 1999. 50. The 11th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 11), G?teborg, Sweden, July 23-28, 1999. 51. The 7th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR), University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, August 22-27, 1999. 52. The 65th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, February 8-9, 2000. 53. 15th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, G?teborg, Sweden, July 8-13, 2000. 54. International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (ISRIUM), Nara, Japan, September 8-13, 2001. 55. The Coulson Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, February, 26, 2002. 56. The 16th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 16), San Diego, USA, August 4-9, 2002. 57. XIII International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry (ISOS XIII), Guanajuato, Mexico, August 25-30, 2002 58. Minerva School on Computational Quantum Chemistry, Blankensee, Germany, September 25-28, 2002 59. The 68th meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. 60. European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Oslo, Norway. 61. Theory and Application of Computational Chemistry (TACC), Gyeongju, Korea. 62. Heron Island Conference on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (Heron 3), Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. 63. The 70th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. 64. Symposium honoring Paul Schleyer's 75th Birthday, University of Georgia, USA. 65. American Chemical Society 229th National Meeting, John Pople Memorial Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA. 66. The 14th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, W?rzburg, Germany. 67. International Symposium on Dynamic Complexes, Sendai, Japan. 68. Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Silicon Chemistry, Hiroshima, Japan. In addition more than 100 invited seminars worldwide in universities, research institutes and industry. Professional Activities (including Committees and Administrative Duties) a. International Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Commission on "Guidelines for the Presentation of Quantum Mechanical and Computation Data in Organic Chemistry" 1986 - 1990 Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 10th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, held at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, August 1990 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Joint Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Israel Chemical Society, Durham, England. 1991 - 1992 Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Selected New Trends of Theoretical Organic Chemistry, Anapa, USSR 1991 - 1992 Member of the International Committee of the European Symposia on Organic Chemistry (ESOC) 1988 - 2000 Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Commission on "Terminology for Theoretical Organic Chemistry" 1991 - 1998 Program and Conference Chairman of the 5th International Conference of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, (WATOC), 7-12 July, 1996, Jerusalem, Israel 1996 Member, Scientific Evaluation Committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1996 - 1998 Member of the organizing committee of the Italian-Israeli Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Mahale Hachamisha, Israel June 1998 Chairman of the Symposium on Frontiers in Electronic Structure Calculations, 13-14 December, 1998, held at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. 1998 Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry 1992 - present Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Federation of the European Chemical Societies (FECS) on Computational Chemistry 1996 - present Member of the Scientific Board of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) 1996 - present Co-Director, Lise Meitner - Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry 1996 - present Member of the International Advisory Board of the European Silicon Days Conference 1999 - present Regular referee for international journals such as: JACS, JOC, JPC, Angew. Chemie, J. Computational Chemistry, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, European Journal of Chemistry, etc. Regular referee of grant applications of various national and international agencies. b. National Member of the organizing committee of several meetings of the Israel Chemical Society   Member of the Commission on "Hebrew Terms in Technology and Science"of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1986 - 1996 Executive Committee, Israel Chemical Society 1986 - 2001 Member of the Grants Committee of Israel Science Foundation 1992 - 1994 Member of an advisory committee to the Israel Ministry of Science 1998 - 2000 Member of the Grants Committee of US-Israel Binational Science Foundation 1999 - 2001 c. Technion Chairman of the Organic Chemistry seminar in the Department of Chemistry, Technion. 1977 - 1978 1980 - 1981 Member of the Computer Committee of the Technion 1979 - 1983 Academic Supervisor (Chemistry), The Unit for Preacademic Studies, Technion 1979 - 1983 Representative of the Chemistry Department in the Technion's Senate 1984 - 1988 Head of the Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1986 - 1990 Member of the Committee for Evaluation of the Technion's Administrative and Technical Staff 1988 - 1991 Chairman of a Senate Committee aimed at examining the Senate Structure and Mode of Operation 1989 - 1990 Member of the Technion Committee for the Absorption of the Aliyah from the Soviet Union 1990 - 1991 Chairman of a Special Meeting of the Technion's Senate on the topic: "Where is the Technion Heading To?", held on 22 March 1992 1992 Chairman of the Chemistry Department Colloquium, Technion 1984 - 1985 & 1992 - 1994 Member of the Preparatory Committee of the Senate for the Academic Appointments of Senior Faculty and for Tenure Decisions 1992 - 1994 Member of a Senate Committee for Examining the Possibility of Establishing an Academic School of Nursing (Chairman: Prof. A. Marmur) 1993 Member of the Committee for "Preparing Guidelines for the Development of the Technion in the Year 2000 and Beyond" (Chairman: Prof. P. Singer, Vice-President) 1993 Member, Committee on Prizes for Academic Staff 1995 - 1996 Member, Committee on Guidelines for the Technion Internet Site 1996 Member, Committee for Harvey Prize 1996 Member, Committee on New Guidelines for Academic Promotion and Tenure Decision 1997 Member, Committee for the the selection of the first Technion Provost 1998 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Technion 1995 - 1999 Ad-Hoc Committee for defining the authority of the Vice-President and Vice-Provost for Research 1998 Member, Committee for the Selection of Research Professors 1998 - 2000 Chairman of the 2000 Harvey Prize Committee 2000 Member, Stirring Committee for the Technion Research Authority 1996 - present Member, Steering Committee of the Senate 1999 - present President of the Technion 2001- present Editorship a. Books Editor, Israel Journal of Chemistry, Special Issue on: "Application of Theory to Organic and Organometallic Molecules" (jointly with S.S. Shaik) 1983 Editor, Israel Journal of Chemistry, Special Issue honoring J.A. Pople, 1992 Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (jointly with S.S. Shaik) 1993 Editor of a special Issue on “Theory and Modelling in Chemistry” Journal of Molecular Structure, (jointly with M. Karni), Theochem., Vol. 398-399 (582 pp). 1997 Editor, "The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds. Vol.2", John Wiley, (3 books, 2758 pages, jointly with Z. Rappoport). 1998 Editor, "The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol.3", John Wiley (jointly with Z. Rappoport). due out August 2001 Editor, “The Chemistry of Organic Germanium, Tin and Lead Compounds”, Vol. 2, John Wiley (jointly with Z. Rappoport). Due out March 2002 b. Editorial Boards Israel Journal of Chemistry 1986 - 1990 Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transaction 2. 1993 - present Progress in Physical Organic Chemistry 1997 - present Journal of Computational Chemistry 1998 - present Molecules 1999 - present Theoretical Chemical Accounts 2001 - present Silicon Chemistry 2001 - present Membership in Professional Associations Israel Chemical Society American Chemical Society Royal Society of Chemistry World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC). Research Interests Organosilicon chemistry: multiple bonds to silicon; reactive intermediates such as: silylenes, silyl anions, silyl cations; polysilanes; reaction mechanisms. Computational quantum chemistry: application of theory to organic and bio-organic chemistry; molecular modeling. Physical organic chemistry: organic reaction mechanisms; reactive intermediates, in particular carbenium ions; strained molecules. Current Research Funding 1. Lise Meitner Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry (continuous support for the next 6 years) - about $30,000 / year. 2. Israel Science Foundation (2005-2009) - $4000 / year. 3. US-Israel Binational Science Foundations (2006-2009) - $30,000 / year Average research funding over the last 10 years about $120,000 / year.