Brief CV
Arik Yochelis, PI
Assoc. Prof. 


 

·         Education 

Ph.D.
Advisor:
Thesis:

  1999-2003, Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University
  Prof. Ehud Meron
  Pattern formation in periodically forced oscillatory systems
  | Abstract (in Hebrew) | Thesis |
 

M.Sc.
Advisor:
Thesis:

  1996-1998, Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University
  Prof. Solange Akselrod  (r.i.p.)
  Approximation method for reconstruction of a phase response curve and investigation of the dynamical behavior of pacemaker
  cells as coupled oscillators
 

B.Sc.

  1993-1996, Physics, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University.
 

 

·         Employment History

2012-present 

Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR),  
and Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev

  

BGU

2009-12

R&D Physicist, Alternative Energy Systems, Landa Labs, Rehovot, Israel;
Charge generation and transport in complex fluids (theory & experiments)

2008-09

Postdoc – Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology;
Patterns in exothermic reaction-diffusion-advection systems, with Prof. Moshe Sheintuch

2006-08

Postdoc – Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA);
Stem cell patterning and cardiac dynamics via activator-inhibitor approach, with Prof. Alan Garfinkel

2005-06

Postdoc – Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley;
Theory of spatially localized oscillations, with Prof. Edgar Knobloch

2004-05

Postdoc – Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology;
Modeling of wetting and droplet motion on distinct surfaces, with Prof. Len Pismen

1999-03

Teaching assistant – Mechanics, EM, Modern Physics for undergraduates, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University

1999

Instructor – Matlab Laboratory, Life Science Faculty, Tel-Aviv University

1996-98

Instructor – Physics Laboratory for undergraduates, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University

Selected recent publications [full list]

  1. Origin of jumping oscillons in an excitable reaction-diffusion system,
    E. Knobloch, H. Uecker, and A. Yochelis, Phys. Rev. E 104, L062201 (2021)
  2. The nonlinear initiation of side-branching by activator-inhibitor-substrate (Turing) morphogenesis,
    A. Yochelis, Chaos 31, 051102 (2021)
  3. Pattern formation aspects of electrically charged tri-stable media with implications to bulk heterojunction in organic photovoltaics,
    A.Z. Shapira, N. Gavish and A. Yochelis, Europhys. Lett. 125, 38001 (2019)
  4. Two site H2O2 photo-oxidation on haematite photoanodes,
    Y.Y. Avital, H. Dotan, D. Klotz, D.A. Grave, A. Tsyganok, B. Gupta, S. Kolusheva, I. Visoly-Fisher, A. Rothschild, and A. Yochelis, 
    Nat. Commun. 9, 4060 (2018)
  5. Molding the asymmetry of localized frequency-locking waves by a generalized forcing: Implications to the inner ear,
    Y. Edri, D. Bozovic, E. Meron, and A. Yochelis, Phys. Rev. E 98, 020202(R) (2018)
  6. From solvent free to dilute electrolytes: Essential componenets for a continuum theory,
    N. Gavish, D. Elad, and A. Yochelis, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 36 (2017)
  7. Fronts and waves of actin polymerization in a bistable-based mechanism of circular dorsal ruffles,
    E. Bernitt, H.-G. Döbereiner, N. S. Gov, and A. Yochelis, Nature Commun. 8, 15863 (2017)