Distinguished Professor

James R. Macdonald Laboratory director Itzik Ben-Itzhak has been named a University Distinguished Professor. Itzik joins a long line of Physics professors who have been so honored. Current Distinguished Professors in the Physics department include Brett Esry, CD Lin, Chris Sorenson and Dean Zollman. Retired or otherwise past professors include Lew Cocke, Pat Richard, Talat Rahman and Bill Reay. Clearly, we're doing something right!

Distinguished Professor is a lifetime title that is the highest honor the University bestows on its faculty for demonstrating their commitment to education through their excellence in teaching, research, creative endeavors and service. Four University faculty members were so honored in 2012.

Itzik's research focuses on the interaction of intense ultrashort laser pulses with molecular ions, with the long-term goal of gaining sufficient understanding of these processes so that they may be controlled at the quantum mechanical level. He also studies the physics of atomic and molecular collisions.

Read more about Itzik's honor in the University press releases, or see the photo gallery of the party thrown for him earlier this month.