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Email: [email protected], Department of Mathematics, Rice University. Phone: +1-203-214-1088

Website: https://talmalinovitch.notion.site/

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Research interests

Twisted Bilayer Graphene, Spectral Theory, Schrödinger Operators, Scattering Theory, Mathematical Modeling.

Research Experience and Education

Lovett Instructor - Rice University, USA (2023–Present)

Postdoctoral researcher


Ph.D. in Mathematics - Yale University, USA (2018–2023)

Thesis title: “Scattering for Schrödinger Operators with Potentials Concentrated Near a Subspace,” under the supervision of Prof. Wilhelm Schlag.


Head of Reactor Physics Research Group – Nuclear Research Center Negev, Israel (2017–2018)

Point of contact for nuclear reactor physics in the Israeli Research Reactor 2. Developed training programs for other departments in nuclear reactor physics. Tutored new employees and directed research and development in the group.


Researcher – Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, Israel (2011–2017)

Analyzed numerical simulations. Benchmarked the results against codes and experiments. Designed and analyzed experiments. Worked under regulatory and operational constraints.

M.Sc. in Industrial and Implementive Mathematics – Ben Gurion University (2012–2016)

Thesis title: “Multi-Type Time-Continuous Markovian Branching Processes in Sub-Critical Systems”, under the supervision of Prof. Ben-Zion Rubshtein, Dr. Chen Dubi (Nuclear Research Center Negev, Physics Dept.).


**B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics -** Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2008–2011)

"Talpiot" excellence program.

Research Papers

  1. N. Levi, T. Malinovitch, Spectral Multiplicity Bounds for Jacobi Operators on Star-Like Graphs, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2504.11628, 2025, to appear in Journal d'Analyse Mathematique.
  2. A. Black, T. Malinovitch, Scattering for Schrödinger operators with conical decay, Journal of Functional Analysis, page 110831, 2025.