Dr. Tamar Goldzak Mizrahi Wins BSF Grant

Dr. Tamar Goldzak Mizrahi won the BSF grant, aimed at promoting research collaboration between Israeli and American researchers. Awarded to her and her research colleague, Dr. Xiao Wang of UC Santa Cruz. This highly prestigious grant aimed at young researchers has a 30% award rate, making it a coveted and competitive achievement. In their research, they predict the properties of two-dimensional materials. "Our goal is to develop innovative and precise numeric methods for solving the Schrödinger equation, which in turn would allow us to predict the structural, mechanical, and optical properties of two-dimensional materials," she says.

Dr. Goldzak Mizrahi met Dr. Wang during her postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. The two specialize in writing complex algorithms for solving the Schrödinger equation, which represent the matter's structure. "Dr. Wang and I both specialize in developing methods for predicting material properties, including electronic and chemical mechanisms of surface reactions. We each specialize in slightly different methods, so we complement each other," explains Dr. Goldzak Mizrahi.

Their collaboration, which formed during her postdoctoral studies, has since borne several articles, including the recently published An Efficient Scaled Opposite-Spin MP2 Method for Periodic Systems, co-authored, among others, by Dr. Idan Haritan, and featured in the prestigious Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.