Experience:

Research Assistant
BIU, Israel 1998-2004

Teaching Assistant
BIU, Israel 1998-2004

Lecturer
BIU, Israel 2001-2006

Postdoc
Dep. of Physical Elec. Tel Aviv, Israel 2004-2006

Postdoc
CNLD, UT, Austin TX, 2007


Education:

B.Sc. (Cum Laude)
Dep. of Physics, Bar Ilan Univ. Israel 1997

M.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude)
Dep. of Physics, Bar Ilan Univ. Israel 2000

Ph.D.
Dep. of Physics, Bar Ilan Univ. Israel 2004



Honors:

Lev Margulis Award of Merit in Microscopy
Israel, 2003

Excellence in Teaching
Israel, 2000-2005

Eshkol Fellowships, Israeli Ministry of Science
2005-2006

 

 

 

abeer at chaos.utexas.edu
Tel: (512) 4710619
Office: RLM 14.316

 

Research Interests:

• Interface Growth
• Reactive-Wetting Processes
• Spreading Droplets
• Instability of Nanoparticles
• Complex Biological Systems
• Microscopic Techniques

 

Current Research:

We study experimentally the latent time development of growth patterns formed by Paenibacillus type-T bacteria in poor media. We perform quantitative experimental investigations by analyzing growing complex structures. In particular, we go beyond the studies of individual colonies and explore colony-colony interactions (see image below) in order to elucidate long distance signaling and communication effects.

 

Affiliations:

• Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
• Department of Physics