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Learn MoreProfessor Ayellet Tal focuses her work on computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning. She develops methods that attempt to “understand” visual data – a task that humans perform naturally and extremely well, but is still challenging for computers. She addresses fundamental problems in vision and graphics, while providing powerful tools that can be used in a multitude of scenarios, not only in science, but also in everyday life. She has also studied the applications of computer vision and graphics to archaeology. Her aim is to bring archaeology into the technology revolution by providing tools to search for corollaries, to…
The Engelender Lab focuses on the molecular mechanisms driving neurodegenerative disorders, particularly in Parkinson’s disease. Nearly one million Americans, mainly over 60 years old, are living with Parkinson’s, a brain disorder that leads to shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking, balance, and coordination. Currently, there are no blood or laboratory tests to diagnose nongenetic cases of Parkinson’s disease, and there is no cure. Parkinson’s disease triggers the degeneration of a specific brain region where abnormal proteins known as alpha-synuclein accumulate. Prof. Engelender and her team study how this accumulation occurs and search for proteins and compounds that can interfere with…
Professor Ayelet Baram-Tsabari focuses her research on bridging science education and science communication scholarship, identifying people’s interests in science, and supporting scientists in becoming effective communicators. She is interested in ways that non-scientists use science in their everyday lives. As such, her work explores how science literacy, at the individual and societal level, shapes public engagement with science. As a former television presenter, journalist, and columnist for publications including Israel’s economic newspaper Globes, she seeks to educate academics on how to communicate science simply and effectively. To that end, she co-developed the “De-Jargonizer” — a program that helps scientists identify…
One of Israel’s prominent astrophysicists, Professor Ehud investigates some of the most violent events in the universe such as black holes, galactic winds, novae, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts. He is interested in detecting and characterizing plasma under extreme conditions, for example, before it falls into a black hole, when it is launched to sub-luminal speeds, or when it is shock heated to millions of degrees. Currently, Prof. Behar is leading the development of GALI, a gamma-ray burst localizing instrument that features an innovative method for localizing gamma-ray bursts, which originate when stars explode. Since these explosions have no observed precursor,…
Charlotte studies industrial processes with the aim of improving them or inventing new, more sustainable processes. Such processes include, for example, recycling carbon dioxide from industrial waste, or generating green ammonia used as fertilizer. Drawing on her expertise in spectroscopy of catalysis, the interaction of light with various catalysts while they are operating, she studies details of catalysts that could not be explored otherwise. Charlotte joined the Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry in March 2021 to help launch the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Sustainability Center for Catalysis. She is a member of the Grand Technion Energy Program and a Technion…
Professor Doron Melamed is a world-renowned expert in the areas of immunology and aging. His work throughout the years has focused on the development, selection, differentiation, and pathologies of B lymphocytes — cells that are produced in bone marrow and protect us from viruses and diseases. Seeking to understand why the elderly are more susceptible to severe cases of infectious diseases, such as the recent COVID 19, he recently discovered a mechanism that could help the body regenerate “flexible” B lymphocytes that are capable of adapting to reinfection with new (mutated) variants of the returning viruses. The research has implications…
Associate Professor Daphne Weihs is an expert in tumor metastasis. Her research focuses on cell mechanobiology (forceful mechanical interactions of cells with their environment) in health and disease. Her focus is on how cancer cell mechanobiology correlates with their function and specifically their ability to metastasize, or spread to new areas of the body. Metastasis accounts for 90% of cancer-related deaths. She and her team developed a groundbreaking technology to rapidly predict whether a primary-site tumor is cancerous, and its likelihood of metastasizing. The novel technology involves seeding tumor-sampled cells on a custom synthetic gel that mimics tissue stiffness, and…
Prof. Shechtman was on sabbatical in the U.S. in the early 1980s when he made his Nobel-worthy discovery. Until that time, scientists long believed that most crystals were composed of a three-dimensional arrangement of atoms that repeat in an orderly pattern. While studying crystals through x-ray diffraction, Prof. Shechtman discovered crystals that had an orderly pattern, but unlike others, the pattern never exactly repeated itself. Initially his findings upset the prevailing views on the atomic structure of matter and were viewed with skepticism. But eventually his research was accepted, changing the very definition of a crystal, and sparking reams of…
Prof. Gepstein’s research laboratory centers on the emerging fields of cardiovascular regenerative medicine and the treatment of cardiac disorders. His lab was one of the first in the world to generate beating human heart cells from embryonic stem cells. The new heart tissue could potentially be used for the regeneration of heart muscle following a heart attack, and for the creation of genetically-engineered cell grafts to treat cardiac arrhythmias. In early 2020, Prof. Gepstein with colleagues from Rambam and the McEwen Stem Cell Institute at the University Health Network in Toronto, used human stem cells to produce 3D engineered cardiac…
Distinguished Professor Avram Hershko, renowned worldwide for his research in biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology, shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Distinguished Technion Professor Aaron Ciechanover and the late Professor Irwin Rose of the University of California, Irvine, for finding and defining ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Their prize came two decades after the momentous discovery. In 1980, while most researchers were focused on how living beings build up proteins, Professor Hershko and his team were examining the flipside of the process — how the body rids itself of proteins that are no longer useful. His research resulted in the…
Prof. Golany is a respected scholar who played a leading role in the University’s administration for nearly two decades. He served as Executive Vice President & Director General of the Technion from 2019 and 2022, during which he played an integral role as part of the Technion’s leadership team under President Uri Sivan. In his prior role as Vice President for External Relations & Resource Development from 2012 to 2019, he helped expand the Technion’s global reach, resulting in a significant growth in philanthropic support to the Technion, increase in joint projects with foreign universities, more visiting delegations to the…
Professor Adam Shwartz has held many senior management positions at the Technion throughout his 37-year career. As vice dean of undergraduate studies from 2000 to 2002, he was responsible for modernizing most of the Technion’s computer systems dealing with students and teaching. Between 2002 and 2009, as deputy to the Director General, he headed administrative computer applications at the Technion, including finance. In 2009, he co-founded and co-chaired the Technion Computer Engineering Center. From 2009 to 2013, he served as dean of the Technion’s electrical engineering faculty, recently renamed the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering….