Ben Israeli was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his project titled "Wave Turbulence and Renormalization: Tackling Divergences in the Wave Kinetic Equation" at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in which he will apply tools from quantum field theory to the statistics of turbulent ensembles of waves. This work will provide insights into the limits of validity of models of wave turbulence, and into the onset of strong turbulence in waves in oceanic, atmospheric, and astrophysical systems. 

Ben received a BS in applied physics from Columbia University, and an MA and PhD in plasma physics from Princeton University. At Princeton, he produced a dissertation concerning instabilities and turbulence in astrophysical and laboratory dusty plasmas, as well as results concerning magnetic field topology and its application to photolithography systems.