7|Former group members

Yuval Grosskopf is an undergraduate student in the Biochemical Engineering program at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In January 2024, Yuval joined the TEEM lab, headed by Prof. Dario R. Dekel, and integrated into the research on anion exchange membrane optimization as part of his senior thesis project.  

Daniel Borodynskyi is an undergraduate student at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. During his studies he is interning in the oil and gas industry, enriching his industry knowledge and skills. In August 2023, Daniel joined Prof. Dario Dekel's group in The Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion as a part of his research project.

Zhicong Liang received his BSc in Chemical Engineering from Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) in 2021 (2017-2021). From 2021, He joined Prof. Dario Dekel’s group as a MSc student. Currently, under the co-supervision of Prof. Xuezhong He (from GTIIT), he is mainly engaged in the field of gas membrane separation.

Luba is the lab manager of the TEEM group since March 1, 2022. Luba received her BSc degree in Chemistry from Bar-Ilan university, Israel, in 2008. Then she continued her studies at the Environmental Engineering faculty at the Technion, where she received her MSc degree. Following a short period as an R&D fertilizers chemist at Haifa Group, she joined Dganit Danino’s lab at the faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion as a PhD student. Her research focused on the ‘1D self-assembly of lipids into nano and microtubes’. After completing her PhD, Luba worked as a Regulation Affairs project

Maisa received her B.Sc. in Biochemical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 2021. Immediately after, she joined Prof. Dario Dekel's group to pursue her M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering

Lab manager since September 2019 until February 2022. Kalanit received her BSc in Biotechnology Engineering from Ort Braude College, Israel, in 2011. In 2012 she joined Dganit Danino lab at the faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion as MSc student. Later, in 2014 she transferred to the direct PhD track. Kalanit research focused on the characterization of the interactions between proteins and biological membranes. Current role:  R&D scientist at Dexcel Ltd.

Dr. Uri Ash is a process engineer with Polygreen Group LTD since October 2019, developing renewable, super absorbant polymers. He has been the lab manager and senior researcher with TEEM, 2016-2019. Dr. Ash has graduated (2008) from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion as a Biochemical Engineer, and continued to a PhD in the direct (Special) course of study (2013). He has been an associated researcher as a postdoc at the Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich prior to joining TEEM. Current role: Senior Process Development scientist at TAT

Was member of Dario's team from October 2017 to January 2020. A Research Associate with a strong background  in materials characterizing, experiments planning, research and development with a Ph.D focused in porous ceramics materials for elevated temperatures from the Technion. Current role: Senior researcher at the Grader research group, Chemical engineering, Technion.  

Dr. Elena S. Davydova has received her diploma with honors in the Department of Electrochemical Technologies, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia in 2010. She has done her PhD with Prof. M.R. Tarasevich in Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). In 2014-2016, Elena worked in Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS as senior researcher. In 2016-2019, she joined the TEEM group of Prof. Dario R. Dekel in Chemical Engineering Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Current role: Senior Scientist at the laboratory of Prof. Avner Rothschild, Matrials Engineering, Technion

Karam received his BSc from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology in 2017. In October 2017, Karam joined TEEM’s group as MSc student under the joint supervision of Prof. Dario Dekel and Prof. Simon Brandon. Later, in February 2019, Karam transfer to the direct track to PhD (special track for outstanding MSc students). His research focuses on modeling and simulation anion-exchange membrane fuel cell.