Gil Markovich is the Alexander and Clara Stransky Chair in Chemistry of Advanced Materials, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University. Formerly also the chairman of the School of Chemistry. He received his B.Sc. (1989) and Ph.D. (1996) from Tel Aviv University and spent two years as a post-doc at UCLA. In 1998 he has established a laboratory for studies of colloidal nanomaterials at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include synthesis and studies of physical properties of colloidal nanocrystals and nanowires, such as nanomagnetism, nanoferroelectricity, and nanoscale chirality and optical activity.