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Learn MoreKate’s work focuses on strengthening organizational culture, developing leaders, and building practical systems that enable teams to do their best work. She is known for steady leadership during complex moments, including executive transitions, organizational restructuring, and post-pandemic workplace transformation. At ATS, she has led initiatives spanning talent strategy, leadership development, employee engagement, and modernization of HR systems and operations, helping align people practices with the organization’s mission and long-term growth. Prior to joining ATS, Kate served as director of human resources at Hudson River Park Trust, a public-sector nonprofit, where she supported a diverse workforce that included union, seasonal, and…
In this senior leadership role, she oversees Donor Relations and Stewardship and Prospect Research, ensuring operational excellence and alignment with the Technion’s priorities. With 20 years of experience in higher education advancement and development, Maryellen brings a deep expertise in strategic planning, donor relations, and project management. Prior to her current role, she served as […]
The lab, the People & Planet Lab (PPL), explores the human aspect of education in the contexts of mobility, identity, and agency. It also examines the environmental aspect of education, including place-based education and global citizenship education. By conducting innovative and interdisciplinary research, the lab aims to contribute valuable insights that will shape the future of education. One of the lab’s core projects, Students’ Understanding & Appropriation of Activism (STUDACT), explores and contextualizes how high schoolers of different backgrounds understand activism – and how their understandings differ within and among countries, curricula, contexts, student characteristics, and education systems. STUDACT, which…
She previously served as executive vice president for innovation and industry relations at the Technion. Her research focuses on computer vision, AI and machine learning, and haptic feedback — technology that interacts digitally with physical objects by applying force, motion, or vibrations. Today we take for granted that we can hear and see each other remotely on a variety of devices. Through advances in haptic technology, Prof. Zelnik-Manor hopes that eventually we will be able to use touch to pat our dog or tuck our grandchild into bed on a video call. Applications could also extend to medicine where doctors…
Prof. Roll’s research bridges between learning analytics and learning design to better understand, assess, and support the growth of learners into competent critical thinkers, scientists, and creative problem solvers. He does so by utilizing a variety of methodologies from the fields of education, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, data science, and human-computer interaction. He has received many awards during his career, including the Technion Outstanding Instructor award (2020, 2021, and 2022); the Silver IMS Global Learning Impact Award for Scaling Pedagogical Knowledge and Practice (2019); the University of British Columbia President’s Staff Award for Leadership (2018); and the Best Paper Award…
Throughout his career, Professor Noam Ziv has been studying synapses, the minute connections between brain cells through which nerve cells exchange information. As a member of the multidisciplinary Network Research Labs, his interests span the areas of basic synaptic biology and network function in normal and pathological circumstances as well as the development of automated imaging and electrophysiology recording systems and associated software. His diverse interests make him the perfect choice to spearhead the THHI, which will conduct health research in a comprehensive, integrative, and institution-wide manner. The new initiative brings together Technion scientists from multiple faculties with researchers and…
The Shenhav Shemer Lab seeks to understand the processes that precede and promote debilitating loss of muscle mass in order to develop therapies to combat muscle atrophy. The team focuses on two areas in biology: the biochemistry of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, which eliminates dysfunctional proteins from the body, and muscle biology/physiology. Their research has yielded breakthroughs that could have implications for people with muscle loss due to diseases, such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, or aging. Prof. Shemer is a graduate of Bar-Ilan University. From 2002 to 2006, she worked as a senior research associate at Proteologics Ltd., a former biopharmaceutical…
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 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….
He works in the area of catalysis, discovering new molecules and materials to speed up chemical reactions. In his independent career, he received the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award in 2022, which recognizes promising early career researchers worldwide. In the same year he was selected by The Marker magazine as one of the 40 under 40 most promising young people in Israel. Born in the Netherlands, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry at Leiden University. He furthered his master’s studies and obtained a Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Following post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology,…
As executive vice president for research from 2019 to 2023, he made significant progress to boost ties between the Technion and industry. He oversaw the coordination and development of research contracts with funding agencies and industry, new collaborative research agreements, research prizes, and ethics in research. As part of this leadership role, he helmed the Technion’s tech transfer commercialization office, Technion Technology Transfer (T3). He also served as CEO of the Technion R&D Foundation (TRDF), a subsidiary that serves as the administrative and financial framework for research activities, scientific experiments, and technical analyses. As a mathematician, Prof. Rubinstein focuses on…