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Daniel Hexner

Assistant Professor
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+972-77-8871672
Office: 420, DK

Education

  • 2015 - Ph.D., Physics, Technion, Israel
  • 2009 - M.Sc., Physics, Technion, Israel
  • 2006 - B.A., Physics, Technion, Israel

Guest Appointments

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago & the physics department, University of Pennsylvania 2015-2019.

Honors and Awards

  • Graduated B.A. Summa Cum Laude (2006).
  • BSF Travel Grant for Young Scientists (2012).

  • N. Pashine, D. Hexner, A.J. Liu and S.R. Nagel “Nature’s greed, memory and directed aging” Science Advances (2019), In press.
  • D. Hexner, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel “Two diverging length scales in the structure of jammed packings” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 115501 (2018)
  • D. Hexner, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel "Linking microscopic and macroscopic response in disordered solids" Phys. Rev. E 97, 063001 (2018)
  • D. Hexner, P. M. Chaikin, and D. Levine “Enhanced hyperuniformity from random reorganization”, PNAS 114 4294-4299 (2017)
  • D. Hexner and D. Levine “Noise, Diffusion, and Hyperuniformity”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 020601 (2017)
  • D. Hexner and D. Levine “Hyperuniformity of critical absorbing states” Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 110602 (2015)

  • Trainable materials.
  • Analogs of machine learning in mechanical systems.
  • Disordered metamaterials.
  • Hyperuniformity and exotic orderings.
  • Amorphous packings and jamming.
  • Elasticity in disordered materials.