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Ilan Ben-Zvi, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow. The IEEE originally represented electrical and electronics engineers, but it has expanded its scope and today is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE Fellowship is one of the organization’s most prestigious honors.
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Ilan Ben-Zvi is a Senior Scientist with tenure, Associate Chair for Accelerator R&D at BNL’s Collider-Accelerator Department and head of the Accelerator R&D Division, and Brookhaven Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University. He has been at Brookhaven since 1988. Ben-Zvi served as the Director of the Brookhaven Accelerator Test Facility for 15 years, where he worked on advanced accelerator concepts, free-electron lasers and high-brightness laser-photocathode RF guns. He is past chair the BNL Council
  
Ben-Zvi was recognized “for leadership in superconducting accelerators, high brightness electron sources and free electron lasers.
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Ben-Zvi earned B.Sc. in mathematics and Physics, 1965, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, 1970, from the Weizmann Institute of science. Research Associate, Stanford University 1970-1975, Senior Scientist Weizmann Institute 1975-1980, Visiting Associate Professor Stony Brook University 1980-1982, Senior Research Fellow, Weizmann Institute 1983-1988, Visiting Professor Stony Brook University 1988-1990.
  
Ben-Zvi is head of the superconducting accelerator and electron cooling group at Brookhaven Lab’s Collider-Accelerator Department, where he develops state-of-the-art superconducting radio frequency accelerator elements and high-current, high-brightness electron beams. As director of Brookhaven Lab’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) for 15 years, Ben-Zvi saw to its development as the premiere advanced accelerator physics facility in the world. Working at the ATF, Ben-Zvi developed devices and techniques for improving free electron lasers, instruments used to study a wide variety of materials and chemical reactions; and devices for more efficiently operating accelerators for physics research.
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Ben-Zvi’s current research interests are RF superconductivity, electron cooling, high-brightness, high-power electron sources, Energy Recovery Linacs and high-power Free Electron Lasers, areas in which he acquired extensive experience over 40 years. He led the development of superconducting accelerator elements such as an ERL 703.75 MHz 5-cell cavity, photocathode injector based on SRF technology, SRF storage cavity for RHIC and compact crab cavity for the LHC luminosity upgrade. His research team is constructing the highest current ERL, aiming at 0.3 ampere. He also initiated and led the R&D on the diamond-amplified photocathode and other high-current photocathodes.
  
After earning a Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1970, Ben-Zvi went to Stanford University, where he helped develop superconducting linear accelerators. In 1975, he returned to Weizmann and founded a cryogenic technology laboratory. From 1980-1982, Ben-Zvi was a visiting associate professor of physics at Stony Brook University. He helped to establish an accelerator at Stony Brook, and he invented and developed accelerator systems now used throughout the world.
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Ben-Zvi was honored extensively by his peers: Elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected in 2007 as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2009 as a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the 1999 IEEE/NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award, the 2001 BNL Science and Technology Award, the 2007 Free-Electron Laser Prize and the 2008 IEEE/NPSS Merit Award.
  
Ben-Zvi joined Brookhaven Lab as a visiting physicist in 1988 and rose through the ranks to become a senior physicist in 1997. He served as head of Brookhaven’s Accelerator Test Facility from 1992 to 2007, and he is currently the associate chair for superconducting accelerator R&D at Brookhaven’s Collider-Accelerator Department as well as an adjunct professor of physics at Stony Brook.
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He served leading roles in various meetings and panels, including the HEPAP Subpanel on Advanced Accelerator R&D (AKA the Marx Panel) and was selected to serve on the National Academies Committee for the Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for Naval Applications. His public service roles include past Secretary-Treasurer of APS/DPB, past Chair of the IEEE/NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Committee and service on the editorial board of PRST-AB. Currently he is a Division Associate Editor of Physics Review Letters, member of HEPAP and ACOT. He initiated the joint accelerator conferences web site now known as JACoW. He is the author or co-author of over five hundred publications.
 
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Ben-Zvi is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Accelerator Science and Technology Award in 1999 and the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award in 2008. He received Brookhaven Lab’s Science and Technology Award in 2001 and the Free Electron Laser Prize in 2007, sponsored by the International Free Electron Laser Conference. He has served in leading roles in many international scientific meetings and distinguished scientific panels, including a National Academy of Sciences’ committee. He is the author or coauthor of over 375 publications.
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Ilan Ben-Zvi

Ilan Ben-Zvi is a Senior Scientist with tenure, Associate Chair for Accelerator R&D at BNL’s Collider-Accelerator Department and head of the Accelerator R&D Division, and Brookhaven Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University. He has been at Brookhaven since 1988. Ben-Zvi served as the Director of the Brookhaven Accelerator Test Facility for 15 years, where he worked on advanced accelerator concepts, free-electron lasers and high-brightness laser-photocathode RF guns. He is past chair the BNL Council

Ben-Zvi earned B.Sc. in mathematics and Physics, 1965, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, 1970, from the Weizmann Institute of science. Research Associate, Stanford University 1970-1975, Senior Scientist Weizmann Institute 1975-1980, Visiting Associate Professor Stony Brook University 1980-1982, Senior Research Fellow, Weizmann Institute 1983-1988, Visiting Professor Stony Brook University 1988-1990.

Ben-Zvi’s current research interests are RF superconductivity, electron cooling, high-brightness, high-power electron sources, Energy Recovery Linacs and high-power Free Electron Lasers, areas in which he acquired extensive experience over 40 years. He led the development of superconducting accelerator elements such as an ERL 703.75 MHz 5-cell cavity, photocathode injector based on SRF technology, SRF storage cavity for RHIC and compact crab cavity for the LHC luminosity upgrade. His research team is constructing the highest current ERL, aiming at 0.3 ampere. He also initiated and led the R&D on the diamond-amplified photocathode and other high-current photocathodes.

Ben-Zvi was honored extensively by his peers: Elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected in 2007 as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2009 as a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the 1999 IEEE/NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award, the 2001 BNL Science and Technology Award, the 2007 Free-Electron Laser Prize and the 2008 IEEE/NPSS Merit Award.

He served leading roles in various meetings and panels, including the HEPAP Subpanel on Advanced Accelerator R&D (AKA the Marx Panel) and was selected to serve on the National Academies Committee for the Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for Naval Applications. His public service roles include past Secretary-Treasurer of APS/DPB, past Chair of the IEEE/NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Committee and service on the editorial board of PRST-AB. Currently he is a Division Associate Editor of Physics Review Letters, member of HEPAP and ACOT. He initiated the joint accelerator conferences web site now known as JACoW. He is the author or co-author of over five hundred publications.