Short CV of Ramy Brustein Personal Born July, 4 1957 in Kibbuz Metzer Raised and educated in Kfar-Saba Married to Esther (Lauf) 1982 Son Dror, born in 1984, daughter Michal born in 1989 Officer in the IDF intelligence unit 8200, 1975-1980 Education B. Sc, Mathematics and Physics, Graduated with honors Tel-Aviv university 1978-1982. M. Sc., theoretical physics, Graduated with honors Tel-Aviv university 1982-1984, supervisor: Prof. L. P. Horowitz Ph. D., theoretical physics Tel-Aviv university 1984-1988, supervisor: Prof. S. Yankielowicz Awards and honors Y. Lavi memorial prize, Tel Aviv Univ., 1985 Abraham Weinberg graduate scholarship, Tel Aviv Univ., 1986 Wolf Foundation graduate scholarship, Tel Aviv Univ., 1987 Buchman graduate scholarship, Tel Aviv Univ., 1988 Alon fellowship, Israel's council for higher education, 1994-1997 Toman academic excellence prize, BGU, 1997 Highly cited paper award, Science Citation Index, 2005 Excellent Teaching award, BGU, 2007 Excellent Teaching award, BGU, 2008 Excellent Researcher award, BGU, 2011 Positions held 1988 – 1991: Post-doctoral fellow, U. of Texas at Austin 1991 – 1993: Post-doctoral fellow, U. of Pennsylvania 1993 – 1995: Fellow, CERN, TH Division 1995 – present: Assistant Prof. à Professor, Dept. of Physics, BGU 2006 – 2010: Dean, Kreitman Graduate School, BGU

Visitor positions 7/97 – 10/97, 7/99 – 10/99, 10/01 – 11/01, 9/10-9/11, Scientific associate, CERN, TH Division 08/03-12/03: Superstring Cosmology Program KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara 09/06-10/06: Superstring Phenomenology Program KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara 10/11-3/12: , CAS, Ludwig Maximilian U., Munich Lectures Lectures at the third international school on field theory and gravitation, Vitoria, ES, Brazil, 2003. Physics Colloquia University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel University of Roma II ``Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Technion, Haifa, Israel University of Paris XI, LPTHE, Orsay, France McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Tel Aviv University, Israel Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Public lectures The accelerated expansion of the universe, Science and Imagination Conference, Sde-Boker, Israel Is the expansion of the universe accelerated by dark energy ? Shomo Shamayim lecture series, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Israel Creation of the Universe, Origin of Life workshop and The Ilan Ramon Lecture, BGU and Dead Sea Works annual executive meeting, Beer-Sheva, Israel.