חוקרי חלל

שם תחום המחקר מוסד אקדמי פקולטה התמחויות ותחומי עניין קישור
Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami
Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Physics Leading the development of the scientific payload for the ULTRASAT satellite team.
Prof. Yohai Kaspi
Earth and Environmental Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Chemistry- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Physics of atmospheric and planetary flow, theoretical, computational, and observational work.
Prof. Eran Oded Ofek
Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Physics The transient universe, the solar system and its formation, development of astronomical techniques, building astrophysical instruments, ULTRASAT satellite, experimental astrophysics.
Dr. Barak Zackay
Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Physics Development of statistical and algorithmic methods in astrophysics for gravitational waves, pulsars, and exoplanets.
Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam
Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Physics Experimental astrophysics, ULTRASAT satellite.
Prof. Gilad Perez
Astrophysics Weizmann Institute of Science Faculty of Physics Physics, data analysis from particle accelerators and astrophysical observations, high-energy physics.
Dr. Reut Sorek-Abramovich
Astrobiology Ben Gurion University of the Negev Dead Sea & Arava Science Center Extremophiles, bacteria in extreme environments, search for life elsewhere in the universe, D-MARS project.
Dr. Yuval Rosenberg
Astronomy Weizmann Institute of Science The Department of Science Teaching Gravitational astronomy.
Prof. Victor Alchanatis
Earth and Environmental Sciences Volcani Institute - Agricultural Research Organization Institute of Agricultural Engineering Sensors for precision agriculture, thermal and hyperspectral imaging, computer vision, multispectral image processing, non-destructive methods for determining agricultural product quality.
Prof. Offer Rozenstein
Earth and Environmental Sciences Volcani Institute - Agricultural Research Organization Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences Integrating remote sensing data into mechanistic models to predict crop responses to management and environmental conditions, irrigation and fertilization recommendations.
Prof. Yafit Cohen
Engineering Volcani Institute - Agricultural Research Organization Institute of Agricultural Engineering Agricultural engineering. Development of thermal imaging in remote sensing, leaf temperature measurement, indication of plant water uptake, optimizing irrigation based on leaf temperature differences.
Prof. Shenhav Cohen
Biology Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology Understanding atrophy mechanisms, delaying atrophy processes, treating chronic patients, ventilated individuals, elderly people, and astronauts, targeted medication at different stages of atrophy.
Prof. Michael Lindenbaum
Computer science Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Taub Computer Science Faculty Computer vision. Machine vision, image processing, learning, quantifying and predicting performance of object recognition and clustering systems.
Prof. Samuel Hassid
Remote sensing Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Environmental, Water and Agricultural Engineering Turbulent flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), building climatology, energy in buildings.
Dr. Saar Rahav
Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Mechanical engineering. The impact of quantum effects on thermodynamic properties, development of stochastic pump theory, relationships between information and thermodynamics, statistical mechanics.
Prof. Alon Hoffman
Chemistry Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Schulich Faculty of Chemistry Chemical and physical properties of diamond surfaces, interaction of molecules, low-energy ions, electrons, photons, and plasmas with diamond surfaces, electron emission from diamond surfaces, nucleation and growth of diamond films and nano-crystalline diamond films.
Prof. Emanuel Cohen
Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Communication engineering. Integrated circuits for wireless communication, high-speed imaging and sensing at high frequencies.
Prof. Eyal Buks
Nanotechnology Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Superconducting devices, nanomechanics.
Prof. Meir Orenstein
Physics Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Semiconductor lasers, short-range optical communication, ultrafast optics, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical communication, electromagnetics.
Prof. Yoav Y. Schechner
Physics Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Optics. Cloud tomography, algorithms from medical CT, small satellite fleet, 3D data collection, cloud structure reconstruction, measuring water droplet size and concentration in clouds, CloudCT project, climate prediction.
Prof. Daniel Rittel
Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering. Experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics (static and dynamic), mechanical properties of materials, mechanical metallurgy, failure analysis of materials and mechanical systems, dental biomechanics, mechanical engineering and robotics, geophysics.
Prof.Alon Wolf
Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering. Basic kinematics, synthesis and design of kinematic mechanisms, medical robotics, biomechanics, hyper-redundant robots.
Prof. Igal Kronhaus
Spacecraft electric propulsion Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Electric propulsion, small satellites, arc-electric thruster, screw-feed system (ISF-VAT), space maneuvering.
Prof. Dan Givoli
Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Mechanical engineering. Computational solid mechanics, finite element methods, acoustic and elastic wave computation, combining analytical and numerical methods, space structures.