Yair Kaufman's Research Group
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Yair Kaufman
Dr. Yair Kaufman
Yair Kaufman's (short) Resume
2002 - 2006, B.Sc:
Chemical Engineering at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. 
2006 - 2012, M.Sc and Ph.D: Environmental Engineering at the Ben Gurion University. Thesis title: "Biomimetic Membranes for Water Purification" 
2013 - 2016, Postdoc: Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (Israelachvili's Group).
2016 - 2019: Assistant Professor at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
2019 - 2020: Project Scientist at the Center for Bioengineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (Pruitt's Group).   

Our group

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Dr. Yakov Morgenstern
Lab manager
  • Study the effect of "stress" on the elasticity and the water permeability of nucleus plant cell. ​

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yakovmo@bgu.ac.il
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Tabea Heckenthaler
M.Sc student
Thesis title: Self-cleaning Ordered Arrays of Si Nanowires for Solar Cells
heckenth@post.bgu.ac.il 
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Dr. Shiju Abraham
Postdoc
  • Nano-fabrication of patterned surfaces.
  • Use AFM to study different surface "fouling" mechanisms. 
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shiju@post.bgu.ac.il
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Dyuti Banerjee
M.Sc student
  • Studying possible applications of laser-induced-graphene  (co-adviced with Dr. Chris Arnusch)​. 
dyuti@post.bgu.ac.il

The Department of Desalination & Water Treatment

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Contact

yairkauf@ucsb.edu
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