B.S., 1979, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., 1984, U.C. Berkeley. Postdoctoral member of Technical Staff, ATT Bell Laboratories, 1984-86; Member, Technical Staff, ATT Bell Laboratories, 1986-88. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1988-93; Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1993-2001; Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2001-present. Visiting professor, Universität Tübingen, 1994-95. William L. McMillan Prize, 1988; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1989-92; Presidential Young Investigator, 1989-94; David and Lucille Packard Fellow, 1989-94; Guggenheim Fellow, 1994-95; Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1994-95; Erskine Fellow 2010. Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics, 2015.
Liu, Qingkun, Wei Wang, Michael F. Reynolds, Michael C. Cao, Marc Z. Miskin, Tomas A. Arias, David A. Muller, Paul L. McEuen, and Itai Cohen. "Micrometer-sized electrically programmable shape-memory actuators for low-power microrobotics." Science Robotics 6 no. 52 (2021).
Miskin, M.Z., Cortese, A.J., Dorsey, K., Esposito, E.P., Reynolds, M.F., Liu, Q., Cao, M., Muller, D.A., McEuen, P.L. and Cohen, I., 2020. Electronically integrated, mass-manufactured, microscopic robots. Nature, 584(7822), pp.557-561.
Niu, Ran, Meera Ramaswamy, Christopher Ness, Abhishek Shetty, and Itai Cohen. "Tunable solidification of cornstarch under impact: How to make someone walking on cornstarch sink." Science Advances 6, no. 19 (2020): eaay6661.
Cohen, Itai, and Melanie Dreyer-Lude. Finding Your Research Voice: Story Telling and Theatre Skills for Bringing Your Presentation to Life. Springer Nature, 2020.
Niu, Ran, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Edward Esposito, Jakin Ng, Michael P. Brenner, Paul L. McEuen, and Itai Cohen. "Magnetic handshake materials as a scale-invariant platform for programmed self-assembly." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 49 (2019): 24402-24407.
Miskin, Marc Z., Kyle J. Dorsey, Baris Bircan, Yimo Han, David A. Muller, Paul L. McEuen, and Itai Cohen. "Graphene-based bimorphs for micron-sized, autonomous origami machines." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 3 (2018): 466-470.
Pikul, J. H., S. Li, H. Bai, R. T. Hanlon, I. Cohen, and R. F. Shepherd. "Stretchable surfaces with programmable 3D texture morphing for synthetic camouflaging skins." Science 358, no. 6360 (2017): 210-214.
Lin, Neil YC, Matthew Bierbaum, Peter Schall, James P. Sethna, and Itai Cohen. "Measuring nonlinear stresses generated by defects in 3D colloidal crystals." Nature Materials (2016).
Tunable Shear Thickening Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016).
Silverberg, Jesse L., Aliyah R. Barrett, Moumita Das, Poul B. Petersen, Lawrence J. Bonassar, and Itai Cohen. "Structure-function relations and rigidity percolation in the shear properties of articular cartilage." Biophysical journal 107, no. 7 (2014): 1721-1730.
Silverberg, Jesse L., Arthur A. Evans, Lauren McLeod, Ryan C. Hayward, Thomas Hull, Christian D. Santangelo, and Itai Cohen. "Using origami design principles to fold reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials." Science 345, no. 6197 (2014): 647-650.
Cheng, Xiang, Jonathan H. McCoy, Jacob N. Israelachvili, and Itai Cohen. "Imaging the microscopic structure of shear thinning and thickening colloidal suspensions." Science 333, no. 6047 (2011): 1276-1279.
Ristroph, Leif, Attila J. Bergou, Gunnar Ristroph, Katherine Coumes, Gordon J. Berman, John Guckenheimer, Z. Jane Wang, and Itai Cohen. "Discovering the flight autostabilizer of fruit flies by inducing aerial stumbles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 11 (2010): 4820-4824.
B.S., Physics, 1995, University of California at Los Angeles. Ph.D., Physics, 2001, University of Chicago. Post-doctoral Associate, Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, 2001-2005. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2005–2011. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2011– 2017. Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2017 - present.
Vordiplom, Physics, 1982, University of Bayreuth. Diplom, 1985, Physics, University of Bayreuth. Dr. rer nat., 1989, Physics, University of Bayreuth. Research Associate, University of Bayreuth, 1987-1989. Postdoctoral Associate, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1989-92. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell, 1992-1998. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell, 1998-2004. Professor, Physics, Cornell, 2003-2005. Director, Max Plank Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization 2005-present. Adjunct Professor, Physics, Cornell, 2005-present. Adjunct Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell, 2005-present. Professor of Physics University of Göttingen, 2007-present. Visiting appointments at: University of California at San Diego; Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara. Awards: Doctor honorois causa, ENS Lyon, Stanley Corrsin Award (APS), HonarFellowships and service: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1993-1995, Fellow of APS, Fellow of EUROMEC, Cottrell Scholar, 1995, Editor in Chief New Journal of Physics (2005-2016), Past Director of the Materials Research Society, Member of the Advisory Board of arXiv, Past Member of the Steering Committee of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, Past Chair of the Chemistry Physics and Technology Section of the Max Planck Society (2014-2017), Vice Chair Chemistry Physics and Technology Section of the Max Planck Society. Chair Professor Tsinghua University (2017 -).