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Lab Members

Prof. Matthew Suss

Lab Director

  • Associate Professor in Mechanical & Chemical Engineering
  • Affiliated with Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) and Grand Water Research Institute (GWRI)
  • PhD. (2013), Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
  • M.Sc. (2009), Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, United States
  • B.Eng. (2007), Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada

David Simakov

Visiting Professor

  • Associate Professor in University of Waterloo, Canada
  • PhD. (2010), Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Heterogenous Catalysis, Reactor Design, Renewable Synthetic Fuels, Green Reaction Engineering, Emerging Catalytic Nano-Materials

Robert Gloukhovski

Lab Manager & Research fellow

  • PhD. (2016), Technion – Israel Institute  of Technology, Chemical Engineering
  • M.Sc. (2006), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Biotechnology Engineering
  • B.Sc. (2004),  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Biotechnology Engineering

Research Interests: Zinc-bromine and Hydrogen-bromine flow batteries

Arunchander Asokan

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • PhD. (2018), Chemistry, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India
  • M.Sc. (2010), Chemistry, Madras Christian College, India
  • B.Sc. (2008),  Chemistry, Madras Christian College, India

Research Interests: Fuel cell electrode materials, Hydrogen-bromine flow battery

Prakash Rewatkar

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • PhD. (2021), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, India
  • M.E. (2016), VLSI Design, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, India
  • B.Tech. (2013),  Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, India

Research Interests: Microfluidic enzymatic, Microbial bio-fuel cells and Redox flow battery

Ankita Mathur

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • PhD. (2021), Material Science, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
  • M.Tech. (2014), Nanotechnology, University of Rajasthan, India

Research Interests: Energy Material, Fuel Cells, Supercapacitors and Zinc based batteries

Amit Shocron

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering

  • M.Sc. (2017) Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • B.Sc. (2014) Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Research field: Capacitive deionization, Ion-selective separations, Electrochemical water treatment

Rana Uwayid

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (direct track)

  • B.Sc. (2018) Chemical Engineering, Technion, Israel institute of Technology

Research field: Capacitive deionization via functionalized microporous carbon

Anat Weisbrod

PhD student

  • M.Sc. (2011) Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (Magna Cum Laude)
  • B.Sc. (2008) Biochemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Research Field: Capacitive deionization and Ion-selective separations

Jintao Wu

M.Sc. student in the Grand Technion Energy Program

  • B.Sc. (2020) Mechanical Engineering (Cum Laude), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Research field: Transport modeling, Simultaneous desalination and electricity generation

Salman Abdalla

M.Sc. student in Mechanical Engineering

  • B.Sc. (2020) Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Ran Yoseph Swisa

M.Sc. student in Mechanical Engineering

  • B. Sc. (2021) Mechanical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 

Research field: Bromine-based flow batteries – theoretical research

Mohamed Asarthen

M.Sc. student in Chemical Engineering

  • B.Tech. (2020) Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering(2020), CSIR-CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India

Research field: Zinc-bromine flow battery

Bar Avneri

M.Sc. student in the Grand Technion Energy Program

  • B.Sc. (2017) Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology