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Daniel Ariad

Daniel Ariad is a postdoc in the McCoy lab at Johns Hopkins University. He is a physicist by training, with research experience in condensed matter and astrophysics. He is interested in adapting theory and analytical approaches from these fields to the study of human genomics and evolution. Daniel received his 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