Chief Scientific Advisor and co-discoverer of the inorganic fullerenes

Prof. Reshef Tenne leads the Nanomaterials Synthesis group that discovered and studied the inorganic fullerene-like nanospheres and nanotubes, generally termed IF nanoparticles, representing a new class of nanomaterials. Professor Tenne is a member of the Department of Materials and Interfaces of the Weizmann Institute of Science and is the Director of the Helen and Milton Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science since 2003.  He holds The Drake Family Chair in Nanotechnology since 2004.

Prof Tenne also headed the G. Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Architecture from 2000-2007, concurrently  as Head of the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He served as visiting professor at the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, the University of Tokyo, the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, CNRS- Meudon in France, and the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. Prof. Tenne has received a multitude of awards: the International Battelle Memorial Fellowship (1976-8); The Mordechai (Moma) Glickson Annual Research Prize (1985); Fellow of the Israeli Vacuum society (1996); Fellow of the World Technology Network (www.wtn.net) (2002);  The Kolthoff Prize in Chemistry of the Technion, Haifa (2005); Materials Research Society Medal, Boston (2005); Rafael Scientific Research Excellence Prize of the Israel Vacuum Society, Tel-Aviv (2005); Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais in Nanotechnology, Tel-Aviv (2006); MRS Fellow (2008, inaugural class of fellows); The Israel Chemical Society Excellence Prize (2008).

Professor Tenne served as the President of the Israeli Vacuum Society, was a Board member of the Israel Chemical Society, and was a Chairman of the Materials Committee of the Israeli Science Foundation. He was also member of the scientific advisory boards of France-Israel, India-Israel, and Japan-Israel research and development foundations. He is a member of the editorial board of: Solid State Sciences Journal, Microscopy, Microanalysis, Microstructures Journal, and Advanced Functional Materials Journal. Professor Tenne has published more than 250 scientific articles and holds over 20 patents. He did his Post-doctorial studies  in Theoretical Chemistry at the  Battelle Institute in Geneva.  He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry, an M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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