Past members

Graduate Students

  • Esther Zemel, graduation: 2000. MSc Thesis: “Using Organic Monomolecular Films for the Study of Photocatalysis”.
  • Arit Sheinman-Avraham, graduation: 2001.  MSc thesis: “Water Treatment by Photocatalysis, Utilizing Combined Structures of Titanium Dioxide”.
  • Hossam Haick, graduation: 2002.  PhD thesis: “Photo-induced Phenomena in Monomolecular Films Chemisorbed on Micro-Domains at the Vicinity of Titanium Dioxide”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=10505
  • Eli Harush, graduation: 2002. MSc thesis: “Photoelectrochemical Phenomena in Gallium Nitride”,(Co-advisor: Prof. Yossef Salzmann EE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=13192
  • Mark Shcvartzman, graduation: 2002. MSc thesis: “Surface Modification of Semiconductors by Organic Self- Assembled Monolayers”, (Co-advisor:  Prof. Dan Ritter, EE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=14341
  • Vered Grimberg, graduation: 2002. MSc. thesis: “Degradation of Volatile Contaminants by an Integrated Photocatalytic – Adsorptive Approach”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=13422
  • Oded Dassa, graduation: 2003. MSc. thesis: “The Effect of the Lattice Planes in III-V semiconductors on their Passivation by Organic Self-Assembled Monolayers”, (Co-advisor:  Prof. Dan Ritter, EE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=12907
  • Yelena Sagatelian, graduation: 2004. MSc. thesis: “Selective Photocatalysis Based on Molecular Recognition Sites Located at the Vicinity of Titanium Dioxide Substrates”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=14662
  • Guy Shemer, graduation: 2004. MSc. thesis: “Enhanced Photocatalysis based on biasing of interdigitated microelectrodes made of titanium dioxide”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=13973
  • Shahar Kedem, graduation: 2005. MSc. thesis: “Composite Nano-Fibers for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity ” (Co-advisor: Prof. Yachin Cohen, ChE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=13277
  • Dovrat Sharabi, graduation: 2007. MSc. thesis: “Preferential Photodegradation of Contaminants by Molecular Imprinting on a Photocatalytic substrate”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=23383
  • Inna Shehter, graduation: 2007.  MSc. thesis: “Molecular aspects of Co-solvent effects on volume phase transition in poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions” (Co-advisor: Prof. Yoav Livney, BFE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=19097
  • Elena Malkes, graduation: 2007.  MSc. thesis: Passivation of III-V devices by Organic Self-Assembled Monolayers (Co-advisor: Prof. Dan Ritter, EE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=23462
  • Nehemja Yaron, graduation: 2008.  MSc. thesis: “SPM studies on the adsorption of self-assembled monolayers on silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=23380
  • Meni Batzon, graduation: 2008.  MSc. thesis: “Blind separation of Infra- Red spectroscopy signals” (Co-advisor: Prof. Yehoshua Zeevi, EE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=24446
  • Yana Milyutin, Graduation: 2012. MSc. thesis: “Flourescence Resonance energy Transfer (FRET) between Adsorbed Molecules as a means to Study Surface Contact Lines in Composite Particles”, (Co-advisor: Prof. Sima Yaron, BFE, Technion).
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=26717
  • Dana Katz, Graduation: 2013. MSc. thesis: “Composite particles as catalytic substrates for Non- enzymatic Synthesis of Nucleotides from Prebiotic Reactants”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=27337
  • Nijme Abbas, Graduation: 2013. MSc. thesis: “Cementitious Photocatalytic Surfaces for Self- cleaning and Air Purification”.
    http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/Theses/Abstracts.asp?Id=27166
  • Milka Nussbaum.  Graduation: 2013. PhD. thesis: “Surface Modification of Photocatalysts”.
  • Ms. Malka Rohkind. Graduation: 2016. Title: “Visible Light Activity of Bismuth Oxide Photocatalysts”.
  • Ms. Limor Pasternak. Graduation: 2017. Title: “Low-temperature direct bonding of silicon nitride to glass”.
  • Mr. Itamar Benisti. Graduation: 2017. Title: “Orientation Dependent Surface Phenomena in Bismuth Oxides Photocatalysts”.
  • Dr. Yelena Kaminski. Graduation: 2015. Title: “The Effect of Interfaces on Carrier Collection Efficiency in Silicon Photodiodes” (together with Dr. Eitan Shauli, Tower-Jazz Ltd).
  • Dr. Sagi Pasternak. Graduation: 2016. Title: “Novel Materials for Photocatalytic Splitting of Water”.
  • Mr. Itamar Benisti, 2017. Title: “The effect of faceting on the photocatalytic activity of bismuth oxides”.
  • Ms. Shoval Gilboa, Graduation: 2018. Title: “Formation of Nucleic Bases, Sugars and Nucleotides from Prebiotic Substances Using Heterogeneous Catalysis”.
  • Mr. Alon Ben-Refael, Graduation: 2018. Title: “Transient Phenomena in the IR spectra of graphitic carbon nitride systems”.
  • Mr. Yizhak Tzvi, Graduation: 2019. Title: “Removal of H2S from water by Advanced Oxidation Processes”.
  • Dr. Zach Shidlovsky, Graduation: 2019. Title: “Developing water treatment unit, based on advanced oxidation processes and bacterial techniques, while utilizing bacteria as a part of a control loop” (Co-supervisor: Prof. Sima Yaron, Dept. of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion).

Post-doctoral researchers and visiting professors hosted by us

  • Dr. Sudeshna Ghosh- Mukerji, September 2001- September 2002. Subject: Selective Photocatalysis
  • Professor Jingfei Luan of Nanjing University, China. 2009 (co-hosting with Prof. Carlos Dosoretz, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion).
  • MSc Ethan Holt, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, FL, USA (2010-2012).
  • Dr. Manjula Pandiri, November 2014 – March 2016.
  • Dr. Niranjan Biswal, March 2015- October 2016.
  • Dr. Andraz Suligoj, June 2019-