Professor

Room 603, Lidow Physics Complex

Ph.D.: Physics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 1980
B.Sc.: Physics and Mathematics, University of Sydney, Australia, 1974
Past - President of the Israel Physical Society

Main Nano Research Field:
Atomistic Simulations of Nanodiamond and Nanotubes

Research Interests
Computational Condensed Matter Physics
Atomistic Simulations and their Visualization
Modeling defects, melting and amorphous structures
Formation of nano-diamond and diffusion in nanotubes

Ph.D.: Chemical Engineering, Technion, 2002

B.Sc.: Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 1998

Main Nano Field:

Nanomaterial-based artificial olfactory systems and (opto)electronic devices.

Research Interests

Ph.D.: Civil  Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1979

M.Sc.: Civil Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1977

B.Sc.: Biology, Tel Aviv University, 1969

Main Nano Field:

Bioreactors for water and wastewater treatment

Immobilization of bacteria in fabricated nanofibers

Research Interests

Ph.D.: Caltech, Pasadena, USA 1986

B.Sc.: U.C. Berkeley, California, USA 1982

Main nano field

 Sol-gel processing of ceramic nanomaterials: xerogels and aerogels, nanosized catalysts, ceramic foams, nanostructured PZT films, coatings.    

Research Interestes

Functional Sol-Gel coatings

Nano structured ceramics

Evolution of porous ceramics

Ph.D.: Ocean Eng, Appl Math - Oregon State University, 1992

M.Sc.: Civil Eng - Technion, 1987

B.Sc.: Civil Eng - Technion 1983

Main Nano field

Nonlinear nano-mechanics: thermo-visco-elastic damping in nano-resonators, stability and control of magnetic resonance force microscopes, non-stationary dynamics in nano-sensor arrays.

Research Interestes

Global bifurcations, complexity and spatio-temporal instabilities in nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS)

Ph.D.: Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1994

B.Sc.: Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1989

Main Nano field

Proteasome structure and function. Ubiquitin as a targeting signal. Use of energy from ATP hydrolysis for protein conformational changes.

Research Interestes

Proteasome mechanism, structure and Function

ATP-dependent conformational changes in protein nanomachines

Diversity of the polyubiquitin chain as a molecular signal

Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 2005

B.Sc.: Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 1994

Nano main fields:

Mechanics of multi-phase biological membranes.

Multi-scale modeling.

Theoretical modeling of the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous nano-structures.

Research Interestes

Mechanics of multi-phase biological membranes

Multi-scale modeling

Theoretical modeling of the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous nano-structures

Ph.D.: Princeton University 1982

M.Sc.: Princeton University 1979

B.Sc.: Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci, Technion 1978

Main Nano field:

Neuroelectronic VLSI systems: Chips that interact with neurons for brain research using large neuronal network and for computer-controlled brain implants to treat neural diseases.

Research Interestes

 Nano-electronic devices for direct interface to neuronal cells and tissues

MD: Faculty of Medicine, Technion, 1977

Nano Main Field: Molecular events leading to skin aging  - will perform RNA-seq (next-generation sequencing) that will enable us to have a better characterization of the molecular events leading to skin aging

Research Interests

M.D:  faculty of Medicine, TAU univesity, 1973

Nano Main Field:

Our major interest would be to decipher the genetic make-up of monogenic diseases using bio-technology methods – homozygosity mapping, linkage analyses and exome sequencing.

Research Interests

Deleniating new and old genetic diseases as regards clinical and molecular aspects.