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Sidney Cohen is a Senior Research Fellow and head of the Surface Analysis Laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann in 1988 and then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center where he began working with the scanning probe microscope (SPM). Since returning to the Weizmann in 1990, he has specialized in SPM applications in various aspects of nanoscience.

He has published widely in the peer-reviewed literature in varied fields, including nanomechanics, photovoltaics, nanoelectronics, nanolithography, and nanoeducation, including several book chapters and invited reviews on related topics. Sidney was selected as AVS Fellow in 2020 for sustained innovations in the application of atomic force microscopy.