Past members

Graduated Ex-members (MSc & PhD)

  • Ms. Esther Zemel, graduation: 2000. MSc Thesis: “Using Organic Monomolecular Films for the Study of Photocatalysis”.
  • Ms. Arit Sheinman-Avraham, graduation: 2001.  MSc thesis: “Water Treatment by Photocatalysis, Utilizing Combined Structures of Titanium Dioxide”.
  • Dr. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Mr. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Dr. Milka Nussbaum.  Graduation: 2013. PhD. thesis: “Surface Modification of Photocatalysts”.
  • Dr. Yelena Kaminski. Graduation: 2015. PhD. thesis: “The Effect of Interfaces on Carrier Collection Efficiency in Silicon Photodiodes” (Co-supervision with Dr. Eitan Shauli, Tower-Jazz Ltd).
  • Ms. Malka Rohkind. Graduation: 2016. MSc. thesis: “Visible Light Activity of Bismuth Oxide Photocatalysts”.
  • Dr. Sagi Pasternak. Graduation: 2016. PhD. thesis: “Novel Materials for Photocatalytic Splitting of Water”.
  • Ms. Limor Pasternak. Graduation: 2017. MSc. thesis: “Low-temperature direct bonding of silicon nitride to glass”.
  • Mr. Itamar Benisti. Graduation: 2017. MSc. Thesis: “Orientation Dependent Surface Phenomena in Bismuth Oxides Photocatalysts”.
  • Ms. Shoval Gilboa, Graduation: 2018. MSc. thesis: “Formation of Nucleic Bases, Sugars and Nucleotides from Prebiotic Substances Using Heterogeneous Catalysis”.
  • Mr. Alon Ben-Refael, Graduation: 2018. MSc. thesis: “Transient Phenomena in the IR spectra of graphitic carbon nitride systems”.
  • Mr. Yizhak Tzvi, Graduation: 2019. MSc. thesis: “Removal of H2S from water by Advanced Oxidation Processes”.
  • Dr. Zach Shidlovsky, Graduation: 2019.  PhD. thesis: “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).
  • Dr. Itamar Benisti, Graduation: 2020. PhD. thesis: “Ultrafast FTIR spectroscopy of photoinduced processes”.
  • Mr. Yuejun Yu, Graduation: 2021. MSc. thesis: “Developing and study of an automatic on-line micro-biotoxicity sensing and control unit for wastewater treatment, based on a cell viability assay”.
  • Mr. Omry Toker, Graduation: 2022, MSc. thesis: “Selective photocatalytic degradation of hydrophobic compounds in aqueous medium”.
  • Mr. Eitay Shtainberg, Graduation: 2023. MSc. thesis: “The correlation between the photoactivity of photocatalysts and diffusion directionality of charge carriers within the photocatalysts”.
  • Ms. Dorit Greenberg, Graduation: 2023. MSc. thesis: “Studying charge carriers dynamics in G-C3N4/MOF-Based Photocatalysts using Transient FTIR”.
  • Ms. Lital Felzenshtein, Graduation: 2023. MSc. thesis: “Photocatalytic enantiomeric enrichment of racemic mixtures of drugs”.
  • Dr. Nitai Arbell, Graduation: 2025. PhD. thesis: “Enantioselective photocatalysis – design, synthesis and characterization of a composite photocatalytic system for chiral separation”.
  • Dr. Shoval Gilboa, Graduation: 2025. PhD. thesis: “Synthesis of RNA building-blocks from pre-biotic substances via heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis”.
  • Dr. Yuejun Yu, Graduation: 2025. PhD. thesis: “Developing of a Controlled Hybrid Photocatalytic-Bio Reactor for the Remediation of Wastewater Characterized by Fluctuating Turbidity and Toxicity”, (Co-supervisor: Prof. Sima Yaron, Dept. of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion).
  • Mr. Shakked Regev, Graduation: 2026. MSc. thesis: “Towards enantiomeric separation by combining ALD and molecular imprinting on high surface area substrates”.

Post-doctoral researchers and visiting scholars 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,  2019- 2021
  • Dr. Alexander Vorontsov, 2020-2021
  • Professor Mohammad El-Azzouzi, 2022
  • Dr. Aneek Kuila, 2022-2026