Dr. Helen Eisenberg is a Research Associate working in collaboration with Prof. Tamar Stein and Prof. Roi Baer. She received her Ph.D. in the Physics of Complex Systems from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on the development of methods for performing first-principles quantum-mechanical calculations within the framework of density functional theory (DFT), with a particular emphasis on plane-wave DFT applied to systems with periodic boundary conditions, such as solid-state materials.

Another major area of her work involves applying DFT calculations to experimentally relevant systems which have periodic boundary conditions. Here, she is actively involved in collaborative projects with experimental groups, investigating systems involving interactions of molecules with solid surfaces, which are of particular relevance to catalysis, as well as molecular ices—an area of special interest to the Stein group.