Ph.D. Student at Prof. Ilana Bar's MDLS group Department of physics, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel Email itamarma@bgu.ac.il Phone (Office) +972-8-64-72582 Phone (Lab) +972-8-64-72588/9 Fax +972-8-64-72588 Office Building 54/ -117 Lab Building 54/ -108

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• Ph.D. Physics, Electro-Optics, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. 2011.
  
  Research Field: "The link between spectral signatures and the shapes of biomolecules"
  
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  (Research proposal for Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew)
  
  Advisor: Prof. Ilana Bar
  
  
  
• M.Sc Physics, Electro-Optics, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. 2006-2008.
  
  Thesis Title: "Spectral Signatures of Biomolecules"
  
  The structure of biomolecules plays an important role in determining their selectivity and functionality. Molecular shapes and conformations of gas phase biomolecules are mostly investigated by coupling infrared (IR) excitation of fundamental vibrational modes with resonant two photon ionization (R2PI) in the ultraviolet (UV). However, due to the lack of tunable laser sources in the entire IR region, spectral features can be monitored only in a limited range. Therefore, we develop and employ, for the first time, a method combining Stimulated Raman Excitation (SRE) with ion dip spectroscopy (IDS) to investigate and map conformations of small biomolecules. Our results show the great potential of the ILSRS technique, for obtaining the spectral signatures of biomolecules, while using available laser sources.
  
  (M.Sc. thesis, Hebrew)
  
  Advisor: Prof. Ilana Bar
  
  
  
• B.A Natural Science, Department of Natural Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel. (2003-2007).
  
  Project I:

03.06.2008 "Spectral Signatures of Biomolecules", lecture on M.Sc thesis work in Lasers seminar.

Publications related to research

• A. Golan, N. Mayorkas, S. Rosenwaks and I. Bar. Raman spectral signatures as conformational probes of gas phase flexible molecules, J.Chem.Phys, 131, 024305, 2009.

• A. Golan, N. Mayorkas, S. Rosenwaks and I. Bar, A new method for determining absorption cross sections out of initially excited vibrational states, J.Chem.Phys, 130, 054303, 2009.

Publications in PC Magazine

• "Grid Computing, The next big FLOP, Computing for the 21st century", PC Magazine, 157, 2006. (Hebrew)

• 2009, Advanced Physics Lab Instructor, X-Ray Lab and NMR Lab

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