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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).   

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Our group

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

Tabea Heckenthaler

M.Sc student

Thesis title: Self-cleaning Ordered Arrays of Si Nanowires for Solar Cells

heckenth@post.bgu.ac.il 

Dr. Shiju Abraham

Postdoc

• Nano-fabrication of patterned surfaces.
• Use AFM to study different surface "fouling" mechanisms. 
• Google Scholar profile

shiju@post.bgu.ac.il

Dyuti Banerjee

M.Sc student

• Studying possible applications of laser-induced-graphene  (co-adviced with Dr. Chris Arnusch)​. 

dyuti@post.bgu.ac.il

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The Department of Desalination & Water Treatment