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Gershon Kurizki holds the G.W. Dunne Professorial Chair in Quantum Optics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is a theoretical pioneer of the fields of quantum open-system control, thermodynamics and quantum measurements. He discovered the universal Anti-Zeno Effect (decay speedup) in open quantum systems, found the connection between quantum thermodynamics and the Quantum Zeno (decay slowdown) and Anti-Zeno effects and introduced fundamental models of quantum heat machines. He has also made numerous contributions to the theory of quantum measurements and quantum optics. He won the Lamb Medal (USA) in 2008 and the Humboldt-Meitner Award (Germany) in 2009 for his discovery of the Anti-Zeno Effect and his pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum measurements and decoherence control in open quantum systems. Kurizki is Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America and the British Institute of Physics. He is the author of circa 470 publications and two books: “The Quantum Matrix” (Oxford University Press, 2020) and “Thermodynamics and Control of Open Quantum Systems” (Cambridge University Press, 2022).