Program

Registration & Refreshments

Greetings:

• Prof. Eduard Yakubov – HIT President
• Dr. Refael Barkan – HIT V.P. for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Internationalization
• Mr. Samuel Goldberg – HIT CEO

Plenary Speaker: Prof. Dmitri Golberg

Queensland University of Technology, Australia Nanomaterial properties and functions as revealed by in situ and operando TEM

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Daniel Gilbert Nessim

Bar Ilan University, Israel One-step CVD synthesis of single atom catalysts on nanocarbons using thermal delamination: a new paradigm for high performance, binder-free, electrodes for water splitting

Invited Speaker: Prof. Maya Bar-Sadan

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Layered materials as versatile electrocatalysts

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Boris Rybtchinski

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Solution-processed materials based on carbon nanotubes

Invited Speaker: Dr. Noa Lachman

Tel Aviv University, Israel The unexpected advantages of nanocomposites extrusionbased 3D printing

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Oded Shoseyov

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The plant age; materials for the future

Invited Speaker: Dr. Ofer Cohen

Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel mRNA vaccines: a game-changer in the fight against infectious diseases

Invited Speaker: Prof. Ester Segal

Technion, Israel Porous silicon-based photonic biosensors for accelerated detection of pathogenic infections and resistant microorganisms

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Shlomo Magdassi

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel New materials and approaches for 2,3,4D printing

Invited Speaker: Dr. Doron Burshtain

SolarEdge Technologies Inc. Energy storage: academic research vs. industrial needs

Invited Speaker: Dr. Sébastien Gasc

Spacetek Technology AG, Switzerland Novel time-of-flight residual gas analyzer (TOF-RGA) for in situ real-time process monitoring

Short Poster Presentations

* Each participant of the poster competition is required to give a short Power Point presentation (max. 3 min., 2 slides)

Gathering & Refreshments

Plenary Speaker: Prof. Ron Naaman

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel The chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect - from electron transfer in biology to spintronics

Invited Speaker: Prof. Doron Naveh

Bar Ilan University, Israel From enhanced responsivity to deep sensing:
advances in light detection

Invited Speaker: Prof. Andrei Manolescu

Reykjavik University, Iceland Electronic properties of semiconductor tubular nanowires

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Janice Musfeldt

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Insulator-metal transition in CrSiTe3 triggered by structural distortion under pressure

Invited Speaker: Dr. Yao Guo

Beijing Institute of Technology, China Multifield coupling of van der Waals interface: properties, devices, and systems

Short Poster Presentations

* Each participant of the poster competition is required to give a short Power Point presentation (max. 3 min., 2 slides)

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Kenan Gundogdu

North Carolina State University, USA Room temperature superfluorescence and quantum analog of vibration isolation

Invited Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Osipov

Holon and Harbin Institutes of Technology (HITs), Israel/China Polariton luminescence under electron-vibrational interaction

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ernesto Joselevich

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Polarity and non-linear optics of guided nanowires

Invited Speaker: Dr. Amir Handelman

Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel Amino-acid-based microstructures as versatile organic photonic platforms

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Ginzburg

Tel Aviv University, Israel Optics behind vaterite-based drug delivery

Closing Remarks:

• Dr. Avi Raveh – Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology

Poster Prize Awards

Conference Closing