Updated 28 February 2024
Education
| 1979 | Ph.D., Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota |
| 1975 | M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
| 1969 | B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Technion |
Professional Experience (major appointments only)
| 2023 – | Chairman, The Samuel Neaman Institute |
| 2015 – | Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion |
| 2010-2012 | Director, The Technion Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) |
| 2000-2005 | Chairman, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion |
| 1991-2015 | Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion |
| 1985-1991 | Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion |
| 1982-1985 | Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion |
| 1979-1982 | Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion |
Research Interests
Self-aggregation in complex liquids. Interfacial and colloidal phenomena. Nanoparticle systems. Electron microscopy of nanostructured liquid systems and biological systems. Cryo-electron microscopy: theory and development. Applications of electron microscopy in chemical engineering, biophysics, food and drug technology, and polymer science.
Honors and Awards
| 1966 | Outstanding Student Award, Technion |
| 1967 | Outstanding Student Award, Technion |
| 1968 | Outstanding Student Award, Technion |
| 1975 | Fulbright Travel Fellowship |
| 1978 | Electron Microscopy Society of America Presidential Scholarship |
| 1984 | EMBO Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, FRG |
| 1985 | “The Henry Gutwirth Fund for Promotion of Research” Award |
| 1989 | “The [Technion] New England Academic Award” |
| 1993 | “The Ernst Ruska Award” of the German Society for Electron Microscopy, for “exceptional work in the field of electron microscopy”. |
| 1997 | The “George T. Piercy Distinguished Visiting Professor” Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota. |
| 2001-15 | The Wolfson Chair in Chemical Engineering |
| 2003 | The Meitner-von Humboldt Research Award |
| 2004 | The “George T. Piercy Distinguished Visiting Professor” Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota. |
| 2005 | The Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research |
| 2006 | The Japan Research Institute of Material Technology Lectureship Award |
| 2010 | South Texas Section AIChE’s 2009 Best Applied Paper Award |
| 2011 | Honorary Fellow, The Israel Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) |
| 2014 | South Texas Section AIChE’s 2013 Best Applied Paper Award |
| 2015 | University of Alberta D.B. Robinson Distinguished Speaker |
| 2015 | Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of Lund, Sweden |
| 2016 | Honorary Fellow, The Israel Society for Microscopy (ISM) |
| 2019 | The Overbeek Gold Medal of the European Colloid and Surface Society (ECIS) |
| 2021 | Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
Publications & students
Author of over 360 refereed full papers and book chapters, cited over 21,700 times in the scientific literature, h-index = 84 (Google Scholar). 63 graduate students and post-docs supervised.
Synergistic Activities
Member of the Board, The Samuel Neaman Institute for national Policy 2023-; Member of the Haifa University Strategic Team 2020-21; Member of the Board, The Wolfson Foundation, Israel, 2019-; Member of the Israel National “Committee for Planning and Budgeting” (“VATAT”) of the Council for Higher Education (“MALAG”), 2013-9; Member of the Board, United States-Israel Educational Foundation, 2013-9; Member of the Council and Member of the Academic Board, Israel Science Foundation 2013-9; Director, the Technion Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), 2010-2. Member of the Board, The Technion Research and Development Foundation (TRDF) 2008-13, and Member of the Board, The Samuel Neaman Institute 2008-14. Department of Chemical Engineering Chairman 2000-2005; founder and Head 1997-2005, Technion Project on Complex Fluids, Microstructure and Macromolecules; Member of the Editorial Board, J. of Colloid and Interface Science 1995-2014; past chairman of the Israel Microscopy Society; past Member of the Board, Israel Institute of Chemical Engineers; past Member of the Board, FIRST (Bikura) program of the Israel Science Foundation; Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC), Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), 2006-2009.