Researchers

The following TAU faculty members are actively involved in NST research. The list includes core members and "second circle" faculty members sorted according to their affiliation. It includes their NST-related activity and a link to the relevant scientific profile of each researchers.

Physics

• Prof. David Andelman: Polymeric Nano-Templates and Nano-Structures (theory)
• Prof. Roy Beck-Barkai: Experimental Biophysics
• Dr. Moshe Ben Shalom: Layered 2D Heterostructures
• Prof. David Bergman: Nano-plasmonics and other physical properties of composite media in Solid State Physics and Biology
• Prof.Yoram Dagan: Superconductivity and ferro-magnetism in the nanoscale
• Prof. Guy Deutscher: Melting of nano-grains, superconductivity in nano-grain composites
• Prof. Eli Eisenberg: RNA Editing
• Prof. Alexander Gerber: Giant magneto-resistance in nano-composites
• Dr. Moshe Goldstein: Theory of Low-Dimentional Nanoscale Electronic and Photonic Systems
• Dr. Roni Ilan: Quantum Transport Phenomena in Topological and Strongly Correlated Matter
• Prof. Ron Lifshitz: Electro-mechanical properties of nanostructures (theory)
• Prof. Alexander Palevski: E-transport in low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures
• Dr. Eran Sela: Mesoscopic Systems and Topological Phases of Matter
• Dr. Haim Suchowski : Femto-Nano dynamics, Nonlinear Metamaterials, Quantum coherent control

Chemistry

• Dr. Roey Amir: Design and fabrication of nano scale building blocks and their assembly into functional materials
• Prof. Ori Cheshnovsky: Nanoscale optics in STM junctions, electronic properties of clusters
• Dr. Guy Cohen: Computational and theoretical methods for non-equilibrium transport and dynamics in strongly correlated quantum nanosystems
• Prof. Yoram Cohen : NMR Diffusion Measurements in Supramolecular Chemistry
• Prof. Haim Diamant: Theory of complex fluids
• Prof. Yuval Ebenstein: Nano-Bio-Photonics
• Dr. Sharly Fleischer: Ultrafast molecular dynamics and coherent control using ultrashort optical and Terahertz fields
• Dr. Amir Goldbourt: Magic angle spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR of filamentous bacteriophage viruses; Development and theory of MAS NMR for the study of diamagnetic metal-ion-containing compounds – applications to enzymes and materials; Structure and dynamics of macromolecular assemblies by NMR
• Prof. Diana Golodnitsky: Nano Materials and Thin Films for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion
• Prof. Michael Gozin: Preparation, characterization and biomedical applications of fullerene/nanotube protein complexes; novel fullerene-derived amino acids and peptides
• Prof. Oded Hod: Computational Nano-Materials Science: towards electronic, spintronic, and electro-mechanical devices at the nanoscale
• Prof. Joseph Klafter: Single molecule dynamics, nanomotors and nanofriction (theory)
• Prof. Gil Markovich: Synthesis and physical studies of colloidal nanoparticles and their assemblies
• Prof. Abraham Nitzan: Electronic processes at molecular interfaces (theory)
• Prof. Fernando Patolsky: The synthesis and characterization of new nanoscale materials for the development of nanoelectronic, electro-optic and electro-magneto-optical devices and their applications in biology, chemistry and technology
• Prof. Emanuel Peled: Nano materials and thin films for electrochemical energy storage and conversion
• Prof. Moshe Portnoy: Design and investigation of nanoscale composite materials for catalysis and biomedical applications
• Prof. Eran Rabani: Theory of nano-materials (theory)
• Dr. Yael Roichman: Optical assembly of new materials and devices
• Dr. Tal Schwartz: Optical properties of organic molecules coupled to optical devices
• Dr. Yoram Selzer: The physics and chemistry of singles molecule junctions
• Prof. Doron Shabat: Self-Immolative Molecular Systems for: Drug delivery, Diagnostic assays, Signal amplification, NIR imaging
• Dr. Amit Sitt: Programmable and Interactive Materials
• Prof. Michael Urbakh: Nanotribology (theory)

Engineering

• Prof. Ady Arie: Nonlinear photonic crystals, nonlinear plasmonics
• Dr. Alon Bahabad: Physical optics
• Dr. Zahava Barkay: Surface characterization methods based on scanning electron microscopy
• Prof. Amir Boag: Nano antenna
• Prof. Ben Steinberg: Photonic crystals
• Prof. Reuven L. Boxman: Electrical discharge and plasma lab-nano research
• Prof. Shmuel Einav: Biofluid microprocessors; Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics; Biomolecular Motors; Nanosensors
• Dr. Pavel Ginzburg:
• Prof. Ilan Goldfarb: Growth of epitaxial nanostructures, STM
• Prof. Yael Hanein: Microfluidics for Self-Assembly, Naotubes-Neuron Interfaces
• Dr. Ariel Ismach: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of 2D Materials and their Heterostructures
• Prof. Eliezer Kit: Interface between bio-molecules and nano-electronic structures and devices
• Prof. Amit Kohn: Magnetic and Electronic Materials used for Information Storage Devices; Transmission Electron Microscopy; Electron Holography
• Prof. Slava Krylov: Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), micro- and nano sensors and actuators
• Dr. Noa Lachman-Senesh: In Situ Nanoscale Characteristics of Nanocomposites
• Dr. Yossi Lereah: Solid-Liquid Phase Transition in metallic nanoparticles
• Dr. Ayelet Laseman: Biomechanics of Cells and Tissues
• Prof. Hadas Mamane: Reactive Species for Water Treatment
• Dr. Ben M. Maoz: Studying Brain Physiology in Health and Disease Using Organs-on-a-Chip   
• ​Prof. David Mendlovich: Silicon nano-photonic dynamic devices
• Prof. Touvia Miloh: Nano-mechanics, fluid dynamics in nano-channels; elastic nano-fibers (theory)
• Dr. Amir Natan: Multi-scale modeling of properties of novel materials and devices
• Dr. Uri Nevo: Cellular Biophysics and Imaging
• Dr. Brian Rosen: Energy Materials Laboratory 
• Prof. Gil Rosenman: Ferroelectric nanodomain polarization reversal and development of a new generation of nonlinear photonic devices
• Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks: Nano-probing, scanning probe microscopy
• Prof. Shlomo Ruschin: Micro-electrooptics
• Prof. Arie Ruzin: Solid state detectocs and devices laboratory
• Prof. Jacob Scheuer: Integrated nano-photonics, slow light and polymer optics
• Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand: Nano-chemical processes for microelectronics and integration of biological material on chip for acute toxicity detection
• Prof. Natan Shaked: Interferometry, microscopy and nanoscopy in biological cells and tisues
• Dr. Tamir Tuller: Predictive computational modeling, simulation, and systems biology analysis of intracellular biophysical processes.
• Prof. Shachar Richter: Molecular Electronics of Self Assembly Layers
• Prof. Yair Shokef: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter
• Prof. Meital Zilberman: Polymeric biomaterials and implants, controlled drug release, tissue engineering
• Dr. Tal Ellenbogen: Nanoscale Elctro-Optics
• Dr. Yoav Linzon: Nano- and micro-optoelectromechanical systems (NOEMS/MOEMS)
• Dr. Oswaldo Dieguez: Atomistic simulation of materials, with emphasis on ferroelectric and multiferroic materials
• Dr. Gili Bisker : Single-walled carbon nanotubes as optical sensors
• Dr. Ines Zucker : Environmental Nanotechnology: Advanced Materials for Water Treatment and Potential Risks Associated with Unintended Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials.  ​

Life Sciences

• Prof. Ari Barzilai: The molecular mechanism of optic nerve degeneration and regeneration
• Prof. Itai Benhar: Targeted drug-carrying phage nanoparicles
• Prof. Tal Dvir: Nanotechnologies for engineering 3D complex tissues
• Prof. Chanoch Carmeli: Application of the photosynthetic reaction center proteins, PS I in the fabrication of a novel nano-bio-photovoltaic devices
• Dr. Johann Elbaz: Genetically Engineering Living Cells Using Synthetic Biology Tools for the Production of Artificial Nanomaterials
• Dr. Avigdor Eldar: Sub-micron light-guided protein localization and super-resolution microscopy for studying division and signaling in bacteria
• Prof. Amihay Freeman: Biotemplating of stabilized protein crystals; directed metallization of biologically active proteins and cells
• Prof. Ehud Gazit: Self-assembly of short aromatic peptides: from amyloid disease to nanotechnology
• Prof. Jonathan M. Gershoni: Nano-optical sensing of protein: Protein interactions
• Dr. Joel Hirsch: Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling 
• Dr. Misha Kolot: Development of Novel Site-Specific Recombination Based Nanotechnology for Human Genetic Diseases and Cancer Therapies
• Prof. Alexander Kotlyar: DNA-based organic nano wires
• Prof. Rimona Margalit: Drug delivery by nano-particles based on biomaterials: biophysical properties, cell-particle interactions and therapeutic responses
• Dr. Iftach Nachman: Microfluidic approaches to study cell developmental decisions
• Prof. Dan Peer: Selective targeting and reprogramming of leukocytes using fully degradable nanomedicines
• Prof. Judith Rishpon: Application of nano technologies in electrochemical biosensors
• Prof. Uri Ashery: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission
• Prof. David Sprinzak: Probing intercellular signaling at the nano scale level 
• Prof. Micha Ilan: Marine invertebrates biomineralization and skeletal properties
• Prof. Adit Ben-Baruch: Research of Inflammatory and Immune Modules in Malignancy
• Dr. Vered Padler-Karavani: Glycans in immune recognition and response
• Prof. Daniel Segal:Determinants of protein misfolding and self-assembly in amyloid diseases, and development of novel inhibitors as candidate therapeutics.
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Medicine

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• Prof. Karen Avraham: Genomics and Therapeutics of Hereditary Hearing Loss

• Dr. Lihi Adler Abramovich: Laboratoryof Bioinspired Nano Materials and Organic-Inorganic Interfaces

• Prof. Dafna Benayahu: Nano manipulation of stem cells differentiation to become biomedical devices
• Dr. Yoni Haitin: Understanding the Roles Ion Channels Play in the Activity of the Immune System
• Prof. Rafi Korenstein: Electrical enhancement of drug nano-carrier; nanoscale cell membrane dynamics
• ​Dr. Eran Perlson: Nanomotors and microfluidic platforms reveal neurodegeneration mechanisms
• Prof. Ronit Sagi-Eisenberg: Nano scale functional genomics and proteomics analyses of mast cell activation
• Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro: Targeting tumor vasculature with polymer conjugates of angiogenesis inhibitors
• Dr. Noam Shomron: microRNA, non coding RNA, deep sequencing, genomics, human diseases
• Prof. Inna Slutsky: Information processing :from nano-scale single synapse to memory function
• Prof. Ilan Tsarfaty: Nanoparticles based Met-HGF/SF molecular imaging
• Dr. Moshe (Shiko) Parnas: Systen Neuroscience
• Prof. Hagit Eldar-Finkelman: Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry

Environmental Studies

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• Dr. Alex Golberg: Renewable energy, BioMEMs