Roles and responsibilities
Senior Research Officer and Team Leader, Frequency and Time (F&T) group, NRC.
Current research and/or projects
F&T Group at NRC is responsible for realising the second, an SI unit of time, and for maintaining and disseminating the official time for Canada, UTC(NRC).
Education
Ph. D., Physics, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2009
M. Sc., Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 1997
B. Sc., Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 1994
Professional activities/interests
Systema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM):
- Deputy Technical Committee Chair
- member of the Working Group (WG) on Time and Frequency. 2018-2020 Vice Chair
Consultative Committee on Time and Frequency (CCTF):
- Chair of the WG on International Atomic Time
- Co-Chair of the Task Force on the Redefinition of the SI Second sub-group A, Impact on Stakeholders and Liaisons
- Co-Chair of the Sub-Group on Education
- member of WGs on Mutual recognition Agreement, on GNSS, on Advanced Frequency and Time transfer
Union of Radio-Scientists International (URSI)
- Commission A (Electromagnetic Metrology) representative for Canadian National Committee
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Canadian delegate at the International Telecommunication Union Study Group 7 (ITU-R SG7)
Fellow of NRC-uOttawa JCEP collaboration centre
member of IEEE UFFC-S Frequency Control Standing committee
Affiliations
Adjunct Professor - University of Ottawa, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics
Awards
The NRC Outstanding Achievement Award for Research and Technology Breakthrough 2021