Professor Sason Shaik

Sason Shaik is a Saerree K. and Louis P. Fiedler Professor of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. PhD with N.D. Epiotis (University of Washington), Postdoc with R. Hoffmann (Cornell). His main interests are in bonding, chemical reactivity, metalloenzymes, and electric field effects in chemistry. Alongside computational tools, he uses valence bond theory as a conceptual frame and has developed a number of new paradigms and concepts using this theory. His main recent awards are the Schrödinger Medal (WATOC 2007); the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Medal (the German Chemical Society, 2012); Membership in the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2015); and The Gold Medal of the Israel Chemical Society (2017). He also writes essays on a variety of topics and poetry.