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Professor Jorge Berger is a faculty member of the Department of Physics and Optical Engineering at Ort Braude College. He was the head of the department during 2006-2010 and 2015-2018. He has co-edited a book entitled "Connectivity and Superconductivity" (Springer). He is an editor of volume 468/4 of Physica C (devoted to fluctuations and phase transitions in superconductors) and the author of a textbook entitled Lecture Notes in Mechanics (in Hebrew). He is a member of Kibbutz Evron. He classifies himself as an optimist.

Favorite Publications The publications selected below are neither the most recent, nor the most frequently quoted, nor the most prestigious. What they probably have in common is that they use elementary ingredients and tools and aim at qualitative or thought provoking conclusions.

• Szilard's demon revisited, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 29 (1990) 985-995
• The fight against the second law of thermodynamics, Physics Essays 7 (1994) 281-296
• Flux-induced vortex in mesoscopic superconducting loops, Phys. Rev. B 59 (1999) 8896-8901
• Noise rectification by a superconducting loop with two weak links, Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 024524 (6 pp)
• Ginzburg-Landau equations with consistent Langevin terms for nonuniform wires, Phys. Rev. B 75 (2007) 184522 (18 pp)
• Location of flux-induced vortex, Physica C 468 (2008) 848–851.
• Flux-induced Nernst effect in a superconducting loop, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 28 (2015) 065008 (9pp).
• Stationary nano-SQUID: theoretical investigation and feasibility analysis, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29 (2017) 29LT01 (6pp).