Team
Assoc. Prof. Tamar Segal-Peretz
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor at the Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. Prof. Segal-Peretz has a BSc in Biochemical Engineering (2006) and a PhD in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (2013), both from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow, at the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, and a Director’s Fellow, at Argonne National Laboratory (2013-2016). Prof. Segal-Peretz heads the Functional Nanostructures Advanced Imaging Lab at the Technion since 2016 and supervises the Technion Center for Electron Microscopy of Soft Materials. She is affiliated with The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) and the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), and the recipient of several awards, among them the Azrieli Faculty Fellowship, the Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award, the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Early Career Award, and the Kline Research Award. Email: tamarps@technion.ac.il | Phone: +972-4-8293565 | Address: Chem. Eng, room 355
Dr. Nidaa Herzallh
Senior Researcher & Lab Manager
Dr. Nidaa received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering in the Technion for developing photo-bioelectrochemical cell configurations for electrical power generation. Nidaa obtained her B.Sc. in Biology (2015) and M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2017) from the George Weiss faculty in Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Nidaa is currently a senior researcher and the lab manager of the FNAI group.
Gil Mansherov
Senior Researcher
Gil received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the Technion in 2022 and is currently studying for M.Sc. degree on improving the performance of biodegradable polymers using atomic layer deposition processes.
Email: gil.m@campus.technion.ac.il | Phone: 1326 Address: Chem. Eng, room 410
Rotem Azoulay
Ph.D. Candidate
Rotem Azoulay has completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Technion. She is currently studying for her Ph.D.
Email: azorotem@campus.technion.ac.il | Phone: 1326 Address: Chem. Eng, room 207א
Oren Ben Porat
Ph.D. Candidate
Oren has completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering at the Technion. He is currently studying for his Ph.D. at the FNAI lab.
Email: ben-porat@campus.technion.ac.il
Phone: 1326 | Address: Chem. Eng, room 207א
Noa Ram
M.Sc. Student
Noa received her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion in 2023, and is now researching membrane structure-function relationships under the guidance of Dr. Tamar Segal Peretz and Dr. Guy Ramon.
Email: noaram@campus.technion.ac.il | Phone: 1326 Address: Chem. Eng, room 207א
Dr. Brian Welch
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Brian Welch is working to bring desalination membrane materials into the semiconductor age. By employing vacuum techniques such as molecular layer deposition, he is designing <5nm semipermeable membrane polymer films to incorporate special qualities such as antifouling surfaces and degradation resilience. Brian obtained his Ph.D. (2021) and M.Sc. (2019) in Mechanical Engineering under Prof. Steve George at the University of Colorado where he also received a BS (2013) in Chemical Engineering. Prior to graduate school, he had professional experience in the petroleum and nuclear industries.
Email: bw@campus.technion.ac.il | Phone: 1407 Address: Chem. Eng, room 385
Ruoke Cai
Ph.D. Candidate
Ruoke Cai has completed her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Guangdong-Technion and her M.Sc. degree in Polymer Engineering at Technion.
Now Ruoke is studying for her Ph.D, investigating in fabrication of nanostructure HfO2 using block copolymers (BCPs) as templates via sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS). Through tuning the BCP chemistry as well as SIS parameters (e.g., temperature and time), this project aims to understand the SIS dynamics and mechanism of tetrakis-based Hf precursor within various of BCPs.
Email: cai.ruoke@campus.technion.ac.il | Phone: 1326 Address: Chem. Eng, room 207א
Elina Yachnin
Ph.D. Candidate
Elina is investigating the effect of charged surfaces on the formation of mineral scaling as part of her Ph.D degree. She completed her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (2013) and M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering (2016) from the Technion, followed by professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
Email: elinay@campus.technion.ac.il | Phone: 1326 Address: Chem. Eng, room 207א
Noam Lerner
M.Sc. Student
Noam is investigating the effect of block copolymer morphology and chemistry on the growth of metal oxides via vapor phase infiltration (VPI). He completed his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 2020 and is currently pursuing his M.Sc. in the same field. He is conducting his research under the guidance of Prof. Tamar Segal-Peretz and Prof. Simon Brandon.
Email: noam.lerner@campus.technion.ac.il
Phone: 1326 Address: Chem. Eng, room 207א
Eden Elazar
M.Sc. Student
Eden received her B.Sc. in Materials Engineering and Chemistry at the Technion in 2025. She is currently studying for M.Sc. degree on improving the performance of composite materials using atomic layer deposition process.
Email: eden.elazar@campus.technion.ac.il
Phone: 1326 | Address: Chem. Eng, room 410
Alumni
Senior Researchers:
Dr. Maya Barzilay- Lab Manager 2020-2022, Current position: H2Pro
Dr. Neta Shomrat- Lab Manager 2017-2020, Current position: Applied Materials
Post Doctoral Researchers:
Dr. Kirti Sankhala- Postdoctoral Researcher 2020-2022. Current position: Department of Science and Technology, Jaipur, India
Dr. Barun Kumar Barick- Postdoctoral Researcher 2018-2020. Current position: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Dr. Olga Kleinerman - Postdoctoral Researcher 2018-2019. Current position: Technion Center for Electron Microscopy of Soft Materials, Technion
Graduate Students:
Inbal Weisbord - Ph.D. 2018-2024, Current position: Applied Materials
Shachar Keren - Ph.D. 2019-2024
Gil Menasherov - M.Sc. 2022-2024, Current position: Senior Researcher, Technion
Ruoke Cai - M.Sc. 2021-2024, Ph.D. student -Technion
Gilad Sasson - M.Sc. 2022-2024, Current position- Bazan G
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Assaf Simon - Ph.D. 2017-2022, Current position: Micro-Nano Fabrication Unit (MNFU), Technion
Tamar Itzhak - M.Sc. 2018-2021, Current position: Polifilm
Ziv Golany - M.Sc. 2018-2020, Current position: Shamir Optics
Undergraduate Students:
Tim Csernica, Imri Frenkel, Lital Barkai, Sahi Vered, Leen Abu-Ahmad, Tal Jakobovits, Yarden Redel, Zohar Matzner, Noam Lerner, Michal Keslin, Lin Grinberg, Gilad Sasson, Sahar Mosafi, Gil Manasherov, Liron Hershko, Noa Ram, Diana Blumenthal, Stav Elyashar, Lior Lerner, Eitan Feldman (Rice Univeristy), Rona Zalit.