Eshel Ben-Jacob

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Eshel Ben-Jacob is a Professor of Physics and the Maguy-Glass Professor in Physics of Complex Systems. He served as the vice President (1998-2001) and as the President (2001-2004) of the Israel Physical Society. He is an expert in nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation and self-organization and bio-complexity. He pioneered the new studies of bacterial self-organization and discovered the foundations of intelligence and cognition in bacteria. During last decade, he also studies neural networks and the human brain activity. Recently, together with his student, he invented the functional holography analysis method and put forth the holographic principle for bio-computing. Professor Ben Jacob is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the World Institute of Physics.