7|Former group members

Dr. Reuven Gal-Ed received his PhD in combustion engineering from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (1988). He has joined the group on July 2017 and retired on November 2020. Current role: Retired

Gila received her BA in Business Administration from Ruppin Academic Center in 1999. In 2018-2020, Gila joined the TEEM group of Prof. Dario Dekel in chemical engineering at the Technion as an administrative manager. Current role: Administrator at the Investment Division, Technion

Dr. Singh received MSc - PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in February 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Manoj Neergat. His research was focused on electrochemistry for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and low-platinum ORR catalyst development. After PhD, Dr. Singh worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Alex Schechter at Ariel University, Israel for two and a half years. Currently, Dr. Singh is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dario R. Dekel in the Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology from November 2018. Current role: Assistant

Dr. Mamta Kumari has received her PhD from Homi Bhabha National institute, Bhabha atomic research center, Mumbai, India in 2018. She has expertise in synthesis and characterization of polymer electrolyte membranes (cation exchange membranes and anion exchange membranes), Modification of membrane's properties by varying membranes structure at microscopic level, Fuel cell etc. She joined Prof. Dario Dekel's group from December 2018 until December 2020 as Post-Doctoral Fellow. In Prof. Dekel's group she worked on the development of anion exchange membranes for fuel cell and another electrochemical applications. Current role: Assistant professor at Alliance University, Anekal, India.  

Israel received his BSc with honors, in 2005 from the Technion, faculty of Chemical Engineering. Worked for two years, 2006-2008, as an associate Researcher in the IMG4 MAGNET project, Technion R&D. Worked for five years, 2009-2013, as a pilot engineer/project manager at IMI TAMI - ICL (Israel chemicals limited) institute for R&D. Managing multiple R&D projects in the fields of biocides, pharma, process scaleup of novel flame retardants, simulation of mixing, and reaction calorimetry. Received his MSc in 2016, on the subject of “Evaluation of Protein-Imprinted Hydrogel Performance Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation”. Since 2016 until 2020 he worked on his

Igal Rasin received his PhD in Physics from the Brandenburg Technical University, Germany in 2007. His field is numerical simulation of transport processes. Igal joined Prof. Dario group in 2017 in order to build Fuel-Cell simulation tool. This tool allows better understanding of fuel-cell internal processes and as a result allows to plan experimental activity. Current role: CTO at BOA Computing.

Jasmin received her BSc in Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany in 2017. She then started the master program mechanical engineering, specified in energy and process engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. She was a visiting research student at Prof. Dekel's Lab and was conducting stability tests on anion exchange membranes (until 2019). Current role:

I am a BSc student in chemical Engineering in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. I joined Prof. Dekel’s group in 2018 for the final project, which include examination of the alkaline stability of anion exchange membranes at dry basic environment. Current role: Process Engineer at ADAMA Ltd.

Yifan started his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 2015. Yifan join Prof. Lahav’s project regarding rehabilitation of water distribution systems following a chemical contamination intrusion in 2018 as undergraduate student, which include experimental research and part of data analysis for heavy metal contamination. Yifan finished his bachelor’s degree and join Prof. Dario’s group since 2019 until 2021. Current role: PhD student at Prof. Ofer Manor laboratory, Chemical Engineering, Technion.

Lanjie received his BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2015-2019). Beginning from October of 2019 Lanjie will start his master studies under the supervision of Prof. Dekel.