Bio: Degrees: B. Sc. - Tel-Aviv University, 1969, cum laude M. Sc. - Tel-Aviv University, 1971, summa cum laude Ph.D. - Tel-Aviv University, 1976, summa cum laude Academic Positions: 1969-70 Research and teaching assistant, Tel-Aviv University 1971-73 Officer in the Israeli Army 1974-76 Research and teaching assistant, Tel-Aviv University and lecturer at Soreq Nuclear Research Center,Yavne, Israel 1976-77 Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 1977-78 Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley 1978-79 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 1981-82 Senior Scientist, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 1982-85 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 1985-2000 Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 2000-2003 C. E. Kenneth Mees Professor of Chemistry,University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 2003-2003 Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 2002- Sackler Professor by Special Appointment, Tel Aviv University 2003- Chancellor Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine

Research: Professor Mukamel's interests focus on the modeling of ultrafast dynamics and relaxation processes of large molecules, biological complexes and semiconductors and how they can be probed by novel optical spectroscopic techniques.