Professor Oz completed summa cum laude two B.Sc. degrees, in electrical engineering and physics in 1987, an M.Sc. degree in physics in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1990, at the Technion. He served as a research officer at the IDF in the years 1990-1996. He was a research associate at the University of California in Berkeley during 1996 – 1998, and a faculty member at CERN in Switzerland during 1998-2002.
In 2001 he joined the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University as a professor of physics. Recipient of the Alon Fellowship, he became incumbent of the Sackler Chair for Young Distinguished Scientists. He served as Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy from 2006 until 2011, as Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences from 2011 until 2015, and as the Rector of Tel Aviv University from 2015 until 2020.
His fields of research include high energy particle physics, quantum field theories and supersymmetry, classical and quantum gravity, superstrings, hydrodynamic turbulence, quantum information and computation and machine learning. Currently, Professor Oz has published about 200 scientific articles, and lectured in over 200 international conferences. He is the incumbent of the Yuval Ne’eman Chair of Physics, won the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Research, and headed the Centre for Excellence in Research of the National Science Foundation. He has been the recipient of numerous competitive research funds, and was a member of the high energy I-Core Center.
He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities and research institutes, such as College de France, École normale supérieure of Paris, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Texas at Austin, and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook.
Professor Oz was the vice president of the Israel Physics Society in the years 2010-2013, and the president in the years 2013-2016. He is the Scientific Director of the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), and a scientific editor of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP). He is Head of the National Committee of Pure and Applied Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the National Committee of High Energy Physics. Professor Oz is a Scientific Director in the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam and Hannover), a member of the Max Planck Society, and a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Professor Oz supervised over thirty graduate students, and over a dozen post-doctoral fellows. His students and post-docs have obtained positions in academic institutions and industries all over the world.
Professor Oz is the Chairman of Israel’s national science team of the youth.
