Robert is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion of the Negev. His research interests are: organic and inorganic stereochemistry; molecular modeling; computer assisted drug design; structure determination via NMR spectroscopic techniques; solid-state 13C CP-MAS NMR studies on polymorphism of drugs; hormone/receptor and drug/receptor interactions; conformational/configurational ambiguity in pharmacologically-active molecules; multinuclear NMR, 2D-NMR techniques.