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Curriculum vitae
David Margulies, Ph.D.
Incumbent of the Judith and Martin Freedman Career Development Chair
Department of Organic Chemistry,
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 972-8-9432668 (work) 972-54-9215154 (mobile)
URL: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/Organic_Chemistry/Margulies/
A: Personal details
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Place of Birth: Rehovot, Israel
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Nationality: Israeli
B: Education
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Post-doctoral Associate, Yale University – USA
2006–2009, Department of Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Andrew Hamilton).
Research topic: Design of Synthetic Protein Surface Receptors that can Bind,
Detect, and Regulate their Functions
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Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science – Israel
2001-2006, Department of Organic Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Abraham Shanzer).
Field: Chemistry. Thesis title: “Logic Operations at the Molecular Scale: Molecular Switches,
Logic Gates and Calculators”
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M.Sc., Weizmann Institute of Science – Israel
1998-2001, Department of Organic Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Abraham Shanzer).
Field: Chemistry. Thesis title: “Chromophoric Metal Complexes: Toward Molecular-Based
Electroluminescent Devices”
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B.Sc., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Israel
1995-1998, Field: Chemistry
C: Employment History
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Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science – Israel
Sept. 2009- present, Department of Organic Chemistry.
D: International Recognition
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Among the 16 pretenure professors selected to present at the Young Academic Investigators Symposium of
the American Chemical Society meeting, Fall 2016 (among the few young investigators outside the US)
The Israeli representative at the EuChem workshop (Spain 2016; this workshop “aims at promoting and
recognizing academic excellence in Organic Chemistry within Europe”)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University Honorarium (Workshop on “Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery”,
PolyU’s State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, 2015)
ERC starting grant recipient (2013)
The International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Career Development Award (2010)
Gruber Young Scientist Award, the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation (2010)
The International Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral (HFSP) Fellowship (2006-2009)
John F. Kennedy Memorial Prize for outstanding research work. The Weizmann Institute of Science (2006,
the highest prize at the Weizmann Institute)
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006, awarded, but declined)
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006, awarded, but declined)
Member of the Israeli student delegation to attend the Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany (2006)
The Feinberg Graduate School distinguished fellowship for academic and
scientific achievements, the Weizmann Institute of Science (2003)
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