Elliad R. Silcoff, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae (for long version click here)





17 Yeda Am St., Ramat Gan, ISRAEL
Telephone: +(056) 337-300
E-mail: elliott_r_s@yahoo.com
Website: www.geocities.com/elliad_r_silcoff

Born
January 30, 1971

Work Experience
08/2004-present: HP-Indigo Division, senior chemist leading a group of 6 scientists and technicians in ink, electrochemistry and polymer research and development
2/2004-8/2004: Ramot Ltd., contract research chemist involved in synthetic organic chemistry and organometallic chemistry
2002-12/2003: Compugen Ltd., research chemist involved in chemoinformatics and synthetic organic chemistry.
2000-2002: Stanford University, lecturer and research fellow in organic chemistry
2000: Weizmann Institute of Science, postdoctoral studies in material sciences
1998-1999: Israel Police, MAZAP, forensics unit

Technical Experience
Organic (small molecule and polymer), inorganic and organometallic synthetic techniques (large scale and micro), microwave, parallel and combinatorial synthesis. Experience in solid phase synthesis, multi phase reactions and supramolecular complexes.

Medicinal chemistry, including SAR, docking, bioavailability, etc.

Ink research including development of resins, pigments, additives, imaging agents, digital printing methods.

Excited state procedures, photoluminescence, electroluminescence.

Standard and "flash" chromatographic techniques, HPLC, GC and GPC.
NMR (both 1D and 2D techniques), UV and fluorescence spectroscopy, IR, RAMAN, atomic absorption, electrochemical procedures, powder X-ray diffraction.

Vast experience in chemoinformatics and databases (Scifinder, Beilstein, CAS, WOS, DOC, POC, etc.).

Licenced safety officer (OSHA Israel), safety technician: chemical laboratory (OSHA USA, California).

Education
1996-2000: The Hebrew University, Ph.D. studies in Organic Chemistry
1993-1996: The Hebrew University, M.Sc. with excellence in Organic Chemistry
1989-1993: Bar Ilan University, B.Sc. with distinction in Medicinal Chemistry
1988-1989: Vanier College, the Department of Physical Sciences

Research
2000-2002: Enantioselective Aldol Reactions Using Bimetallic Zinc Catalysts, Prof. B. Trost, Stanford University
2000: Preparation of Ordered Organic/Inorganic Matrices, Prof. M. Lahav, The Weizmann Institute.
1996-2000: Synthesis of Polymers with Specific and Tunable Luminescence, Prof. T. Sheradsky, The Hebrew University (as part of a Ph.D.)
1993-1996: Stereospecificity in the Diels-Alder Reaction, Prof. T. Sheradsky, The Hebrew University (as part of an M.Sc.)
1993: RAMAN and UV Studies of Hydride Complexes in Diamond Anvil Cells, Prof. I. Butler, McGill University
1992-1993: Selective Fluorination of Steroids, Prof. Y. Krackover, Bar Ilan University


Presentations Given
"Synthesis of Polymers with Backbone Fluorescein", ICHC-17, Vienna, Austria (August, 1999)
"Synthesis of Polymers with Isolate Thiophene Based Chromophores", ESOC-11, Gothenburg, Sweden (July 1999)
"The Reversible Chemical Doping of Thiophene Containing Polymers. An On/Off Switch for Fluorescence", 63rd Meeting of the Israeli Chemical Society, Tel-Aviv (February, 1998)
"The Enantiospecific Synthesis of 2-Amino-5-Hydroxyhexanoic Acid by Intramolecular Cycloaddition", ECSOC-1 (September 1997)
"The Synthesis of Polymers for Narrow and Tunable Electroluminescence, 62nd Meeting of the Israeli Chemical Society, Haifa (February, 1997)


Society Memberships
The Israel Chemical Society 1996-present
The International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry 1998-2000
The Israeli Society of Polymers and Plastics 1999-2001, 2004-present
The American Chemical Society 2001-2002


Languages
Fluent in both written and spoken English, French and Hebrew. Technical reading ability in German. Good knowledge of Esperanto.

Recommendations and list of publications available upon request.