ILAN BEN-ZVI
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
ilan.ben-zvi@stonybrook.edu | Brookhaven National Laboratory, C-AD, MS-911B
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Biography
Ilan Ben-Zvi is an Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University. He got his Ph.D. from the Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1970, where he also served as a Tenured Senior Scientist from
1975 to 1988. His BA in Mathematics and Physics is from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1965.
He was Visiting Research Associate at Stanford University from 1970 to 1975. He has been on the
faculty at Stony Brook starting as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1980-1982, came back as a Visiting
Professor in 1988 and has since been associated with the Physics and Astronomy Department in various
roles until now.

Research Statement
Ilan Ben-Zvi’s expertise encompasses conventional and superconducting RF linear accelerators for
accelerating particles ranging from electrons to heavy ions, particle sources, cryogenics, electron-hadron
colliders and advanced accelerator concepts. Currently he is engaged in R&D at CERN on Ferroelectric
Fast Reactive Tuners and Stony Brook University Diamond Amplified Photocathodes.
Ben-Zvi has over 650 scientific publications, see ORCID ID 0000-0001-5583-0106.