Daniel Ariad

Currently, I am a postdoc in the McCoy lab at Johns Hopkins University. I'm a physicist by training, with research experience in condensed matter and astrophysics. I'm interested in adapting theory and analytical approaches from these fields to the study of human genomics and evolution. I received my Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and subsequently worked as postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington.

• Contact Information
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
  • Department of Biology, McCoy Laboratory
  • 3400 N. Charles Street,
  • Baltimore, MD 21218
  • E-Mail: daniel@ariad.org

• Education:
  • B.Sc. (2007-2009), Physics, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  • M.Sc. (2010-2012), Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  • PhD (2013-2018), Topological quantum computation, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

• Awards:
  • The Negev-Zin scholarship for outstanding doctoral students. (2014)
  • Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students by the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology. Declined due to Negev-Zin Regulations. (2014)
  • Short-term post-doctoral fellowship supported by the Kreitman School for Advanced Research Studies. (2018)

• Employment History:
  • Teaching Assistant of Physics 1-2-3 (2010-2018).
  • Labs Instructor for third year undergraduates physics (2014-2018)
  • Teaching Assistant of Solid State Physics 1 for Physics (Fall Semester of 2015,and 2016)
  • Postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington (2019-2020)

• Volunteering History:
  • Council member of the BGU Student Association (2009).
  • Member of the Physics Class Committee (2008-2009).
  • The Perach Tutorial Project (2009)
  • Council member of the BGU Junior Faculty Staff Association (2010)
  • BGU Kindergarten Committee (2016)
  • Events and Fairs of the BGU physics department (2013-2017)
  • Wikipedia Contributor (I write new articles and expand existing articles) (2013-
  • Undergraduate project advisor at BGU (2015-2018)

• Journal Referee:
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review B