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Joseph Klafter

Joseph Klafter

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Physics

D-Index
96
Citations
49251
World Ranking
1846
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For advancing the understanding of energy states and transport in ordered, disordered a lowdimensional domains and that of anomalous diffusion, reaction kinetics and molecular dynamics in disordered and confined systems

Overview

Joseph Klafter is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research career includes recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in 2011. Earlier, in 1993, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation highlighting their work on advancing the understanding of energy states and transport in ordered, disordered, and low-dimensional domains, as well as the study of anomalous diffusion, reaction kinetics, and molecular dynamics within disordered and confined systems.

Joseph Klafter's scientific contributions encompass several complex areas of physics and chemistry related to energy transport and molecular behavior. Their work addresses how energy states operate and transfer in various structural contexts, emphasizing systems that are ordered or disordered and those that are confined to low-dimensional spaces. This includes detailed examination of phenomena such as anomalous diffusion, which deviates from classical diffusion behavior, alongside reaction kinetics that describe rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions, and molecular dynamics, which simulates physical movements of atoms and molecules.

The scientist's career does not list recent papers, co-authors, or specific publication venues publicly. Likewise, no particular book publications, main fields, subfields, or main topics of work are documented in available sources beyond the awards and the general research areas addressed in their APS fellowship citation.

Joseph Klafter's academic profile situates them as a figure engaged with the theoretical and applied aspects of physical sciences, focusing on microscopic and mesoscopic transport phenomena. Their acknowledged expertise via prestigious fellowships reflects sustained contributions to these fields over time.

Best Publications

  • The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach

    Ralf Metzler;Joseph Klafter

  • The restaurant at the end of the random walk: recent developments in the description of anomalous transport by fractional dynamics

    Ralf Metzler;Joseph Klafter

  • Beyond Brownian motion

    Joseph Klafter;Michael F. Shlesinger;Gert Zumofen

  • Anomalous Diffusion and Relaxation Close to Thermal Equilibrium: A Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation Approach

    Ralf Metzler;Eli Barkai;Joseph Klafter

  • Lévy dynamics of enhanced diffusion: Application to turbulence.

    M. F. Shlesinger;B. J. West;J. Klafter

  • From continuous time random walks to the fractional fokker-planck equation

    E. Barkai;R. Metzler;J. Klafter

  • Stochastic pathway to anomalous diffusion

    J. Klafter;A. Blumen;M. F. Shlesinger

  • The nonlinear nature of friction

    Michael Urbakh;Joseph Klafter;Delphine Gourdon;Jacob Israelachvili

  • L'evy walks

    V. Zaburdaev;S. Denisov;J. Klafter

  • First steps in random walks : from tools to applications

    J. Klafter;Igor M. Sokolov

  • First-passage times in complex scale-invariant media

    S. Condamin;O. Benichou;V. Tejedor;R. Voituriez

  • Boundary value problems for fractional diffusion equations

    Ralf Metzler;Joseph Klafter

  • On the relationship among three theories of relaxation in disordered systems.

    Joseph Klafter;Michael F. Shlesinger

  • From diffusion to anomalous diffusion: A century after Einstein’s Brownian motion

    I. M. Sokolov;J. Klafter

  • Scale-invariant motion in intermittent chaotic systems

    G. Zumofen;J. Klafter

  • Fractional dynamics : recent advances

    Joseph Klafter;S C Lim;Ralf Metzler

  • Anomalous diffusion spreads its wings

    Joseph Klafter;Igor M Sokolov

  • Random Walks with Infinite Spatial and Temporal Moments

    Michael F. Shlesinger;Michael F. Shlesinger;Joseph Klafter;Y. M. Wong

  • Derivation of the Continuous-Time Random-Walk Equation

    J. Klafter;R. Silbey

  • Fractal behavior in trapping and reaction

    J. Klafter;A. Blumen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Urbakh
Michael Urbakh Tel Aviv University
Ralf Metzler
Ralf Metzler University of Potsdam
Michael F. Shlesinger
Michael F. Shlesinger Office of Naval Research
Igor M. Sokolov
Igor M. Sokolov Tufts University
Joshua Jortner
Joshua Jortner Tel Aviv University
Gleb Oshanin
Gleb Oshanin Sorbonne University
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University
Alan E. Rowan
Alan E. Rowan University of Queensland
Roeland J. M. Nolte
Roeland J. M. Nolte Radboud University

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