I offer R&D consulting services in Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgy, Nanotechnology, Batteries, and related fields, for various industries including Energy, Metals, Aerospace, Food-Tech, Clean-Tech, Defense and other sectors. These services include: ○ Brainstorming and problem-solving sessions tailored to product needs. ○ Identifying and promoting paths for technological innovation. ○ Experiment Management: Design, implementation, evaluation and analysis. ○ Technological feasibility studies for innovative products and solutions. ○ Critical analysis and review of R&D plans and production processes.In addition, I offer Project Management and Knowledge Integration services: ○ Lead or join multidisciplinary research project teams (long/short term). ○ Assistance with experimental and characterization work (on-/off-site). ○ Integrating materials knowledge (theory and practice) into your organization.

Worked on R&D of Li-ion batteries with extreme fast charging capability for the EV market.Worked in multidisciplinary teams within an Agile framework.

This is the return ("incoming") phase of the three-year Marie Curie grant, funded by the European Commission of the EU.

This grant/fellowship is sponsored by the European Commission through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie action.The project, titled TheSBIE - "Thermodynamic Stabilization by Interface Engineering" concerns nano-crystalline (NC) metallic alloys, unique materials having extremely small crystals (grains) which exhibit significantly improved mechanical properties over their conventional coarse-grained counterparts. Yet their inherently-large fraction of internal interfaces (grain boundaries, GBs), associated with excess energy, leads to coarsening of their structure at elevated temperatures during either fabrication, processing or service life. This results in a rapid deterioration of their properties, rendering them unsuitable for many applications. Compared with conventional, kinetic stabilization of NC alloys, which is limited and temporary in nature, the approach taken here is of ‘Thermodynamic Stabilization by Interface Engineering’ employing solute segregation: alloying with elements which preferentially migrate to GBs to substantially reduce their excess energy, leading to a stable, tunable nano-scale grain size even at high temperatures. Employing a thermodynamic approach for engineering the structure and chemistry of interfaces in these materials stands a good chance of overcoming their fundamental stability hurdle, with nature’s blessing. This is an international interdisciplinary research involving experiments, mesoscale and atomistic simulations of thermodynamic, kinetic and mechanical properties. It will take place between March 2017 and March 2020 at MIT (USA), Technion (Israel) and WWU (Germany).

At the Schuh group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT.Working with Prof. Christopher A. Schuh on the thermodynamic stability of nanocrystalline metallic alloys.Funding:1. J. William Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship.2. MIT-Technion Postdoctoral Fellowship.

At the group of Solid-State Thermodynamics / Prof. Eugen Rabkin.Worked on interfacial segregation and diffusion in Fe/Au, Ni/Au and Ni/Pd thin films and nanoparticles on sapphire, as well as on the capillary-driven growth of metallic nanowires.

I taught 2 advanced courses in the Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate program - Characterization of Materials (Microscopy and diffraction methods), and Diffusion in Solids - as well as 2 Advanced Laboratory courses.In the Characterization of Materials course I completely re-structured the tutorials and related course material (homework assignments, etc.) with an emphasis on coherency and up-to-date examples.My tutorials in both the Characterization of Materials and Diffusion in Materials courses were officially video-recorded by the Technion for future use by students.