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דו"ח מיפוי
מי אנחנו
השתתפות בקהילה
דו"ח מיפוי
מי אנחנו
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research fields: Sustainable construction materials, composite materials Development of alternative building materials and high-performance cement-based composite materials particularly textile reinforced concrete.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research fields: Sustainable design/construction in arid zones; Energy conservation in buildings; Tall buildings in hot climates; IEQ; POE; ZEB/ZEC, Analysis of building/environment/user interactions to formulate and ensure sustainable, low energy solutions, healthy environments.
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management
Research fields: Biomechanics, wearable robotics, and sustainability, Developing a tool that will enable policy makers to test the potential contribution of implementing various measures on Co2 and other materials using optimization.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research fields: Sustainable project management; Development of models and methods for the management of the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable/net zero energy building and infrastructure projects.
Ben-Gurion center for Solar Energy, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research
Research fields: Photovoltaics, solar fuels; Developing materials for solar energy conversion and storage.
The Department of Desalination & Water Treatment, The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research
Research fields: Microbial biofilm matrix and biofouling; Membrane fouling and biofouling; biofilm physiology; fouling layer's mechanical and physical properties; water chemistry and systems performance.
Department of Geography and Environmental Development
Research fields: Geoinformatics, soil degradation, remote sensing, environmental psychology, vegetation productivity and agricultural yields, soil health; The GI-Lab focuses primarily on the use of geodata - satellite data, location based social network data as well as data from mobile devices - to better understand earth surface processes and human behavior in space. This is done using spatial analysis techniques including geostatistics as well as lab and field experiments and space- time modeling.
Department of Chemistry
Research fields: nano-porous materials, supercapacitors; vapour sensors; chemo- and bio-sensing with carbon dots; sensors based upon polydiacetylene (PDA); amyloid proteins; therapeutic probiotics; Research in the Jelinek laboratory is broad-based and spans nanotechnology, surfaces and thin films, sensors, and biological membranes. Our research activity has a certain applied-science emphasis, with several patents awarded/submitted.
Department of Public Policy and Management
Research fields: Energy and environmental policy; Economic modeling of energy markets, management of natural resources, the economics and environmental aspects of renewable energy, energy policy and consumer behavior.
Department of Geography & Environmental Development
Research fields: Energy Shortage, Heat Pump, Microclimate, Energy Demand, Vegetation Cover
Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics and Urban Planning Sciences
"Research fields: Urban microclimate and pedestrian thermal stress Life-cycle energy efficiency in the built environment Bioclimatic architecture: the geography of local building in different regions"
Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Spectroscopy and High-Temperature Chemistry, radicals involved in pyrolysis, combustion, and plasma.
Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Chemistry of nanomaterials relies, many times, on knowing the structure of a nanomaterial at the atomic scale, since at these sizes every atom matters. In my group, we study the structure-properties relationship for several systems. We aim at correlating the optical, magnetic and catalytic properties with structural motifs at the atomic scale, using mainly high resolution electron microscopy.
Department of Materials Engineering
"Research Interests: Thermochemistry and thermophysical properties of materials Retaining nanostructure during ceramic sintering. Sintering behavior of ceramics in the presence of electric field. Development of advanced ceramics."
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Forces at the solid-liquid interface; Wetting phenomena, Intermolecular forces; Tribology; Instrumentation in Material science; Marangoni flow ; colloidal stabilization and coagulation; Adhesion; Super hydrophobicity.
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
Research activities: Solar power in space, Nanomaterials by highly concentrated solar and lamp light, Novel high-impact solar power systems, Advanced solar cells, Innovative optics for solar concentrators and illumination, Algae ultra-efficient bio productivity
French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnologies of Drylands
Research Interests: Effect of management on the environmental impact of agroecosystems; Impacts of environmental and land-use changes on linkages between C and N cycles in agroecosystems; Controls on soil trace gases emissions
Ben-Gurion center for Solar Energy, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research
Research Interests: Renewable energy: Concentrated electrolytes and ionic liquids, Morphological changes in renewable batteries: dendrite formation and front dynamics; Pattern forming systems and applications to biology: Spatially localized states: branching, auditory system, and excitability, Actin waves: Reaction-diffusion media with conservation, Bifurcation theory in spatially extended systems
Ben-Gurion center for Solar Energy, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research
Research Interests: Optics and Light-Matter interaction, Light-induced microparticles bubble drive, Advanced light trapping for solar cells, Nonlinear optics of metals at the extreme subwavelength scale.
The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research
Research Interests: Electrochemical wastewater treatment; electroconductive responsive membranes; nutrients recovery from wastewater; microbial, organic, and inorganic fouling mitigation; membrane distillation; per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) monitoring and control.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Air Pollution Control, Dynamics of Droplets, Particle Dynamics in Gas and Water, Particle Emission Reduction with Grouping, Combustion – Fuel Sprays, Bio-Fuels, Fluid Dynamics, Atmospheric Modelling.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Analysis and upgrading of buildings for earthquakes by optimizing the mass, stiffness and adding damping devices.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Bioelectronics, Micro- and Nano-electronic devices and systems, Bio-Microelectromechanical Systems (Bio-MEMS), Biosensors, Personalized health monitoring and treatment.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical understanding of interfacial phenomena at the micron and sub-micron scales; Phase-transitions in liquid mixtures under external spatially nonuniform electric or gravitational fields. Phase-separation in ion-containing mixtures; Theoretical study of phase-transitions and structural changes in ordered phases of block-copolymers, as a result of confinement, elastic forces, or external electric field. Orientation of ordered phases confined to thin-films; Conformations of curved objects (i.e. micelles) near solid surfaces. Competition between entropic, elastic and enthalpic forces; Non-trivial polymer brush conformations when the end-groups are charged; "Bacteria optics" : E. Coli bacteria sometimes behave in wave-like fashion; The similarity and dissimilarity with optics is explored in these complex systems.
Department of Materials Engineering
Research Interests: Thermoelectricity; Thermoelectric Energy Conversion; Chemical Storage (Magnesium Hydride).
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Integrated Photonic Devices, Plasmonics, Cyber, Overtone Spectroscopy, Microfluidics, Antireflective metasurfaces, Polarization‐Controlled Switch, Twisted waveguides, Optical forces manipulation, Parity-Time symmetry, Single photon sources, All-optical neural networks, Quantum money on a chip, High-index nanophotonics.
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Breast cancer detection; Wireless and Satellite RF Communication; OWC and lidar; practical implementation of a long-range Quantum Key Distribution; Environmental and agriculture monitoring.
Department of Economics
Research Interests: Understanding how groups shape cognition and behavior as well as in more broad issues of cooperation and behavior in teams; basic game theoretical issues, behavior in markets, and experimental methodology.
The Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Work
Research Interests: Social epidemiology, women's health, immigrants and socio-cultural patterns in health and illness, new mothers and parenting, fathers and parenting, prevention and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, mixed method research design, mother-daughter relationships, stress, coping and health, midwifery and traumatic birth experiences, cognitive-behavioral techniques and stress reduction.
Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Develop new methods to synthesize metal-free materials and earth-abundant metal-containing materials with well-defined structure and properties toward their utilization in energy-related applications such as photo- and electro-catalysis.
Department of Materials Engineering
Research Interests: Developing materials and devices for renewable solar energy conversion and storage; film growth, semiconductor physics, and electrochemistry in order to understand and overcome the fundamental material challenges standing in the way of efficient solar to fuel conversion.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Advanced materials, applied heterogeneous catalysis, multiphase and fixed-bed reactors.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research interest - Electrochemical energy conversion, Thermal energy storage in Phase Change Materials (PCM)s, Electrocatalysis, Fuel cells, Aqueous batteries, CO 2 electro- reduction to fuels, Methane electro-oxidation to useful oxygenates, Graphene-catalyst coatings, Photo-electrocatalytic systems.Short research description - Development of new electrocatalytic systems for energy conversion devices and for the generation of fuels and useful chemicals.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Research interest - Electrochemical energy conversion, Thermal energy storage in Phase Change Materials (PCM)s, Electrocatalysis, Fuel cells, Aqueous batteries, CO 2 electro- reduction to fuels, Methane electro-oxidation to useful oxygenates, Graphene-catalyst coatings, Photo-electrocatalytic systems.Short research description - Development of new electrocatalytic systems for energy conversion devices and for the generation of fuels and useful chemicals.
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research , Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Research Interests: Applied solar energy. Photovoltaics. Photovoltaic characterization under high concentrations of sunlight. Novel concepts of ultra-efficient solar cells. Stability of organic and hybrid organic-inorganic photovoltaics. Perovskite-based solar cells.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research interest: Phenomena related to fluid mechanics; Dual coupling of the electric surface charge of nanoscale systems on the hydrodynamics where the flow is determined by the electrical field which in itself is determined by the flow.
Department of Materials Engineering
Research interest: Nanomaterials, solution deposited thin films: A new combinatorial approach for solution deposited thin films
