Current Group Members
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Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker |
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Smadar Amir – Coordinator |
Postdoctoral Researchers
PhD Students
Postdoctoral Alumni
| Year | Name | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Dr. Valeria Butera | Developing cluster models for oxides |
| 2014-17 | Dr. Jeremie Zaffran | Dopant effects in modeling nickel oxyhydroxide catalysis |
| 2017-20 | Dr. Kapil Dhaka | Non-stoichiometry and vacancy formation in oxides |
| 2019-22 | Dr. Santu Biswas | CO2 electrolysis with perovskite oxides |
| 2020-22 | Dr. Bipasa Samanta | Organic-inorganic solar cells parametrization |
| 2024-25 | Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sahoo | CO2 reduction |
PhD Alumni
| Year | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Natav Yatom | A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Iron-Oxide Photoelectrodes for Water Splitting |
| 2021 | Vicky Fidelsky | Theoretical Research on LSFCr Perovskite as a Catalyst for CO2 Reduction |
| 2021 | Gabriela Stan Melech | An Efficient Multiscale Approach for Calculating Charge Transport in Nano-Devices |
| 2022 | Yuval Elbaz | Modeling and Prediction of Electron Transfer in Spinel Oxides |
| 2023 | Nadav Snir | Optical, Electronic, and Catalytic Properties of Iron Oxide Under Working Conditions |
MSc Alumni
| Year | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ofer Neufeld | A Theoretical Study of ALFA-Fe2O3; Solar Water Splitting Catalysis and Metal/Metal-Oxide Interfaces in Advanced Photoelectrochemical Cells |
| 2016 | Natav Yatom | Photocatalysis on Nb-doped Fe2O3 surface |
| 2017 | Vicky Fidelsky | Theoretical Characterization for Nickel Oxyhydroxide – One of the Best Water Oxidation Catalysts for Energy Applications |
| 2017 | Gabriela Stan Meleh | Lateral Interface in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Metal/Semiconductor Heterostructures |
| 2018 | Yuval Elbaz | Diffusion of Hydrogen Ions in Metal Oxides Phases |
| 2018 | Michael Nagli | Characterization of M(OH)2 (M = Ni, Fe, Co) Two-Dimensional Materials through Computational Methods |
| 2019 | Ester Korkus | The Effect of Strain and Co Doping at Varying Concentration on the Efficiency of Nickel Oxyhydroxide in the Process of Water Oxidation |
| 2019 | Liora Tietz | Theoretical Investigation of Two-Dimensional Dielectric Materials for MoS2-Based Field-Effect Transistors |
| 2020 | Almog Reshef | The Atomic Source of Flicker Noise in Superconducting Qubits |
| 2021 | Roni Eppstein | Calculations on Pathways and Mechanism for Charge Transport in MnxFe3-xO4 |
| 2022 | Sean Dvir | Machine Learning based Method for Finding Improved Initial Guess of Adsorption Site DFT Calculation |
| 2022 | Eitan Yohanan | The Role Interlayer Arrangements on Water Oxidation Catalysis in Two Dimensional Materials |
| 2022 | Yair Reichman | Lattice Mismatched Interface in a Binary Heterostructure System |
| - | Shahar Cohen | - |
| - | Noy Mizrahi | - |
Undergraduate Alumni
| Year | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mila Volkov | Empirical pair-potentials |
| 2014 | Asaf Haddad | Computational codes in materials science |
| 2014 | Amir Kleiner | Perovskite materials |
| 2015 | Shelly Navon | Fe2O3 oxide surface |
| 2015 | Mahran Shehadé | Oxide catalysis |
| 2015 | Leora Shein | Metal/Oxide interfaces |
| 2015 | Almog Reshef | Metal/Oxide interfaces |
| 2016 | Meir Dahan | Fe2O3 catalysis |
| 2016 | Eran Aharon | Fe2O3 catalysis |
| 2016 | Chen Hareli | Monte Carlo Simulations |
| 2018 | Yanay Tovi | Metal/Oxide interfaces |
| 2018 | Mishelle Berezinsky | Oxide catalysis |
| - | Nir Glazer | Fe2O3 catalysis |
| - | Yoav Shaked | Fe2O3 catalysis |
| 2020 | Noam Hadari | Numerical methods |
| 2020 | Yair Reichman | Numerical methods |
| 2022 | Shir-El Arazani | Finite Elements |
| 2024 | Avi Cohen | Charge dynamic |
| 2024 | Leeor Meir | NiOOH Catarlysis |
| 2024 | Nofar Refaeli | NiOOH Catarlysis |
| 2025 | Aya Awawdy | ZSM-5 Zeolites |
| 2025 | Iris Herscovici | ZSM-5 Zeolites |
| 2025 | Dor Rettig-Grun | Numerical methods |
| 2026 | Reut Melnick | Interface |


