חברי הוועדה המייעצת הבינלאומית
Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman (2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)
Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel.
Research Interests: Quasicrystals, electron microscopy, rapidly solidified alloys
Selected Awards and Honors:
2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; 1999 Wolf Prize in Physics; member of the American National Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences
Professor Joanna Aizenberg
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Research Interests: Biomimetic inorganic materials synthesis, self-assembly, nanofabrication, biooptics, biomaterials, biomechanics
Selected Awards and Honors:
Fellow of the American Physical Society; R&D 100 Award for Top Technology and Innovation (2012 & 2013)
Institute Professor Robert S. Langer
Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, USA
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, drug delivery
Selected Awards and Honors:
2013 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; 2002 Charles Stark Draper Prize; 2008 Millennium Prize; 2005 Dan David Prize; the most cited engineer in history; member of the American National Academy of Engineering, and the American National Academy of Sciences
Professor Charles M. Lieber
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
Research Interests: Nanotechnology – from biology/medicine to energy
Selected Awards and Honors:
2012 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; 2013 Willard Gibbs Medal; member of the American National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; #1 in Top 100 Chemists (Web of Knowledge)
Professor Ke Lu
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research Interests: Nanostructured metals and alloys
Selected Awards and Honors:
Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK; member German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Third World Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences; MRS Fellow
Professor Christine Ortiz
Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Dean for Graduate Education & founding and faculty Director – MISTI MIT-Israel Program, MIT, USA
Research Interests: Structural or load-bearing biological materials, nanomechanics
Selected Awards and Honors:
NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Professor David N. Seidman
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, USA
Research Interests: Interfacial phenomena on the atomic scale, Atom-Probe Tomography (APT), physical metallurgy
Selected Awards and Honors:
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow MRS, Sackler (Tel-Aviv University), Microscopy Society of America, ASM International, TMS, and APS
Professor Knut W. Urban
The Institute for Microstructure Research at Research Centre Juelich, Germany
Research Interests: High-resolution transmission electron microscopy, electro ceramics, quasicrystals, intermetallic phases
Selected Awards and Honors:
2011 Wolf Prize in Physics; former President of the German Physical Society (DPG, 2004-6)
Professor David Vandebilt
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, USA
Research Interests: Computational materials science, novel oxide materials
Selected Awards and Honors:
Member of the American National Academy of Sciences; Fellow APS
Professor Karen I. Winey
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Polymer nanocomposites reinforced with carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires, ion-containing polymers
Selected Awards and Honors:
Fellow APS, MRS
