Amirav Research Group
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."
—Phil Jackson
Our Team:
Lilac Amirav
Lilac Amirav received her Bachelor degree in chemistry from Tel Aviv University at the age of 18, and was then recruited to the IDF where she served as a chemist in the technology unit of the intelligence force. Amirav obtained her Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of technology, working with Prof. Efrat Lifshitz, and was a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Paul Alivisatos at UC Berkeley. In October 2011 she joined the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion as an Assistant Professor. She is also affiliated with The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) and the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), and an active member of the I-CORE - Israel Solar Fuels Consortium.
Yifat Nakibli
Lab Manager
B.Sc., Technion 2004
M.Sc., Technion 2007
Ph.D., Technion 2013
Sandip Pahari
PBC Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., University of Calcutta, India 2006
M.Sc., University of Delhi, 2008
Ph.D., CSIR-CSMCRI, Gujarat, 2014
Shaik Firdoz
GTEP & Schulich Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Tech., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Uni. 2007
M. Tech., Indian Institute of tech. Roorkee, 2010
Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2015
Riccardo Milan
Marsilio Ficino Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., University of Brescia, 2016
Susanta Bhunia
PBC Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., IACS, Kolkata, 2015
Xiangqian Fan
Graduate student
Kaituo Dong
Graduate student
Lior Cohen
Graduate student
Itay Lutzky
Graduate student
Alumni
Shunit Olszakier
Graduate student
M.Sc. Technion, 2017
Trung-Anh Le
Graduate student
M.Sc. Technion, 2017
Imanuel Peer
Graduate student
M.Sc. Technion, 2017
Nathan Walton
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., University of Utah, 2008
Ph.D., University of Utah, 2013
Philip Kalisman
Schulich Postdoctoral Fellow
Amirav Group, Nov 2012-2015
B.Sc., Brown University 2006
Ph.D., UC Berkeley 2012
Idan Ashur
Senior Researcher
Amirav Group, Feb 2014-2015