Krill Prize (2006) [1] Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2009) [2] Eli Barkai (Hebrew: אלי ברקאי) is a professor of physics at Bar-Ilan University, located in Ramat-Gan, Israel.

[3] Barkai studied physics in Tel Aviv University, completing his Ph.D. in 1998.

In particular he helped develop the theory of fractional kinetic equations for anomalous diffusion and relaxation, theory of single molecule spectroscopy, and weak ergodicity breaking.

Among the physical systems he studied are blinking of quantum dots, the diffusion of cold atoms in atomic traps and the diffusion of single molecules within a live cell.

Barkai has received several prizes: the Krill prize (2006, selected by the Wolf foundation),[4] the Michael Bruno Memorial award (2009, selected by Yad Hanadiv)[5] and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research award (2011, selected by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation).