Post doc: Department of chemistry and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, U. C. Berkeley (1993-1995).

PhD: Theoretical Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 1993.

BSc: Chemistry, Hebrew university of Jerusalem, 1989.

Theory and simulations of quantum dynamics:

Molecular electronics

Open quantum systems

Driven quantum systems

Electronic dynamics in nanostructures.

Quantum charge and energy transport in bio-systems.

Numerical methods for multidimensional wave equations:

Global solutions for Helmholtz/Schroedinger/Poisson equations with scattering boundary conditions.

A Langevin-Schroedinger formulation of quantum dissipation.

Reduced density matrix approaches for quantum dynamics.

Green’s functions and wave propagators.

• Ariel D. Levine, Michael Iv and Uri Peskin, “Formulation of long-range transport rates through molecular bridges: From unfurling to hopping”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 4139−4145 (2018).

• David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Michael Thoss, and Uri Peskin, “High-voltage assisted mechanical stabilization of single-molecule junctions”, Nano Letters 18, 8, 4727 (2018).

• Rainer Haertle, Christian Schinabeck, Manas Kulkarni, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Michael Thoss and Uri Peskin, “Cooling by heating in nonequilibrium nanosystems”, Phys. Rev. B. Rapid communication 98, 081404(R) (2018).

• Ariel D. Levine and Uri Peskin, “Contact Interference in Molecular Junctions”, Molecular Physics 117, 2097-2107 (2019).

• E-Dean Fung, David Gelbwaser, Jeffrey Taylor, Jonathan Low, Jianlong Xia, Fadi Jradi, Iryna Davydenko, Luis M. Campos, Seth Marder, Uri Peskin and Latha Venkataraman, “Breaking down resonance: non-linear transport and the breakdown of coherent tunneling models in single molecule junctions”, Nano Letters 19, 2555−2561 (2019). • Uri Peskin, “Quantum transport in the presence of contact vibrations”, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 024108 (2019). • Michael Iv and Uri Peskin, “Ballistic transport and quantum unfurling in molecular junctions via minimal representations of quantum master equations”, J. Chem. Phys. 184112-184121(2020).

• Yoni Eshel, Uri Peskin and Nadav Amdursky, “Coherence-assisted electron diffusion across the multi-heme protein-based bacterial nanowire”, Nanotechnology 31, 314002-314012 (2020). • Maayan Kuperman, Linoy Nagar and Uri Peskin, “Mechanical stabilization of nano-scale conductors by plasmon oscillations”, Nano Letters 20, 5531-5537 (2020).

• Erpenbeck, Y. Ke, U. Peskin, and M. Thoss, “Current-induced dissociation in molecular junctions beyond the paradigm of vibrational heating: The role of antibonding electronic states”, Phys. Rev. B. 102, 195421 (2020).

• Yuval Agam, Ramesh Nandi, Alexander Kaushansky, Uri Peskin and Nadav Amdursky, “The porphyrin ring rather than the metal center dictates long-range electron transport across proteins” , PNAS 117, 32260-32266 (2020).

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