Jeffrey M. Gordon

Jeffrey M. Gordon is an Israeli university professor and scientist who has produced major advances [1-10] in the fields of solar energy conversion, photovoltaic physics and engineering, solar power in space, nano-material synthesis, advanced optical design, radiative transfer, finite-time thermodynamics, bio-medical sciences and algae bio-technology, as documented in more than 250 journal papers. Several of his breakthroughs have been translated into impactful commercial realities.

Biography

Gordon was born in June 1949 in Brooklyn, NY, USA, and raised there in a traditional Jewish family comprising his mother Goldie, his father Robert, and his maternal grandmother Lilian Watarz. In 1966 he graduated from James Madison High School, as well as the Madison Park Jewish Center Hebrew High School. He translated his youthful Jewish ideology into action by moving permanently to Israel, starting as a volunteer during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, which also accounts for the hiatus between his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He has dedicated his personal and professional life in Israel to pioneering activities.

His academic venture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev went hand-in-hand with participating in building a vibrant desert township, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, that has attracted hundreds of families from across the country, and has evolved into one of Israeli's most attractive and fastest-growing communities.

Education

Gordon received his B.A. degree in Chemical Physics in 1970 from Columbia University (New York, NY, USA), and simultaneously completed and received his M.A. degree in Chemistry from Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) in 1976, immediately after which he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science's Polymer Department in Rehovot, Israel through 1978, at which point he received a faculty appointment at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in its new faculty of desert sciences at its Sede Boqer Campus, where he has been ever since.

Career

Being a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, in the Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, has comprised Gordon's entire academic career. He joined the university in 1978 as a founding member of its new Faculty of desert sciences at its satellite campus in Sede Boqer, and played a pivotal role in stewarding it to an internationally recognized center of research and graduate education.

Currently (2023), Gordon is professor emeritus, as academically active as ever in research and pedagogy, including major collaborations with professorial colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the University of Western Australia, the University of Rome, the University of Perpignan, and Pennsylvania State University.

Gordon has held visiting-scholar appointments at Columbia University, the University of California, the University of Colorado, the University of Western Australia, Nanyang Technological University, the University of Perpignan, and the National University of Singapore. He also developed new university curricula in subjects that span solar energy science and engineering, non-imaging optics, radiative transfer, and the physics of life. Over the years, he has served as the thesis supervisor for dozens of MSc and PhD students as well as post-docs.

Books

• J.M. Gordon, K.C. Ng (2000) Cool Thermodynamics, Cambridge Int. Sci. Publ. (Cambridge, UK).
• J.M. Gordon (Ed.) (2001) Solar Energy: The State of the Art, James & James (London, UK).

Several recent representative works

• C.J. Ruud, J.M. Gordon, N.C. Giebink (2023) "Microcell concentrating photovoltaics for space"[1]. Joule 7, 1093-1098.
• H. Zhang, J. He, W. Zhang, I.E. Castelli M. Saunders, J.M. Gordon, H.T. Chua (2023) "Rapid, one-pot, non-toxic and scalable synthesis of boron nitride nano-onions via lamp ablation"[2]. Materials Today 67, pp. 13-22.
• J.M. Gordon (2022) "Uninterrupted photovoltaic power for lunar colonization without the need for storage"[3]. Renewable Energy 187, 987-994.
• Y. Zarmi, J.M. Gordon, A. Mahulkar, A.R. Khopkar, S.D. Patil, A. Banerjee, B.G. Reddy, T.P. Griffin, A. Sapre (2020) "Enhanced algal photosynthetic photon efficiency by pulsed light"[4]. iScience 23, 101115.
• H. Mashaal, D. Feuermann, J.M. Gordon (2019) "The expansive scope of aplanatic concentrators and collimators"[5]. Applied Optics 58, F14-F20.
• E.A. Katz, I. Visoly-Fisher, D. Feuermann, R. Tenne, J.M. Gordon (2018) "Concentrated sunlight for materials synthesis and diagnostics"[6]. Advanced Materials 1800444.
• W.L. Leong, Z.E. Ooi, D. Sabba, C. Yi, S.M. Zakeeruddin, M. Graetzel, J.M. Gordon, E.A. Katz, N. Mathews (2016) "Identifying fundamental limitations in halide perovskite solar cells"[7]. Advanced Materials 28, 2439-2445.
• A. Braun, E.A. Katz, D. Feuermann, B.M. Keyes, J.M. Gordon (2013) "Photovoltaic performance enhancement by external recycling of photon emission"[8]. Energy & Environmental Science 6, 1499-1503.
• P. Kotsidas, V. Modi, J.M. Gordon (2011) "Gradient-index lenses for near-ideal imaging and concentration with realistic materials"[9]. Optics Express 19, 15584-15595.
• A. Albu-Yaron, M. Levy, R. Tenne, R. Popovitz-Biro, M. Weidenbach, M. Bar-Sadan, L. Houben, A.N. Enyashin, G. Seifert, D. Feuermann, E.A. Katz, J.M. Gordon (2011) "MoS2 hybrid nanostructures: from octahedral to quasi-spherical shells within individual nanoparticles"[10]. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50, 1810-1814.

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