Israeli Quantum Psychics Prof. Selected For $30M Research Fund

Ben-Gurion University’s Prof. Ron Folman has been selected as one of 11 researchers who will share a collective fund of $30 million, for their research projects. 

The projects of Folman and the other 10 researchers were selected from a large number of proposals that aim to expand the understanding of fundamental physics. 

Folman will personally receive a grant of $2.6 million from the fund, with which he aims to develop a device that will help find the missing link between quantum psychics and Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. 

“These two pillars have been tested by numerous experiments throughout the last century and have been found to be accurate,” said Folman, who has spent the last two decades trying to find the connection between the two. 

“The problem now is that in order to have a true understanding of nature, we need to understand how these two pillars work together,” he said. 

At BGU, Folman is the head of the Atom Chip Laboratory; the Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy Chair in Quantum Physics and Nanotechnology; and founder of the Weiss Family Laboratory for Nanoscale Systems. 

“Prof. Folman’s selection as part of such an esteemed fund is testament to Ben-Gurion University’s renowned multi-disciplinary research efforts which fuel Israeli innovation and enhance our understanding of the world — and in this case the universe — as we know it,” said Doug Seserman, CEO of Americans for Ben-Gurion University.