Scholarship and Biography

My research focuses on patterns in time and space, primarily in chemical (reaction-diffusion) systems, though the systems I study cross disciplinary lines into such areas as biology, physics, mathematics, engineering and the social sciences.

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Honors

Marshall Scholar
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, 1966 - 1967
Fellow
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (United States, Princeton), 1966-1968
Teacher-Scholar
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (United States, New York), 1973 - 1978
Fellowship
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (United States, New York) - HFG, 1977
Fellowship
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany, Bonn), 1977
Founding chair, Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Oscillations
Gordon Research Conferences (United States, Kingston) - GRC, 1982
Fellowship
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (United States, New York) - HFG, 1987-1988
Helena Rubinstein Chair in Chemistry
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1989 - 1994
Associate Editor, Chaos
American Institute of Physics (United States, College Park) - AIP, 1990 - 2005
Board of Directors
New England Complex Systems Institute (United States, Cambridge) - NECSI, 1996 - 2005
Chair, NSF Workshop on "Models of Thought Processes"
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2004-2005
Henry F. Fischbach Chair in Chemistry
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2006
Professorship
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States, Chevy Chase) - HHMI, 2006 - 2010
Honorary Professor
China University of Mining and Technology (China, Xuzhou) - CUMT, 2009
Grass Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2010-2011
Fellow
Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, 2012
Fellow
American Association For The Advancement of Science (United States, Washington D.C.) - AAAS, 2017

Organizational Affiliations

University Professor and Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Neuroscience Program, Brandeis University

Education

Harvard University
Ph.D.
Harvard University
M.A.
Harvard University
B.A.