Group Members
Dr. Prashant Gupta
Research Interests:
Understanding diverse heterogeneous systems (solid-liquid interface, proteins, ion-water clusters, bulk solvated system). Both in the condensed and gas phase using force field and ab-initio based molecular dynamics simulations. Currently, I am working on enzyme catalysis in terpene synthases using QM/MM methods.
Chen Shmueli
Position: Ph.D. Student
Email:
chenshmueli14@gmail.com
Research Interest:
Masha Nihamkin
Position: Ph.D. Student
Email:
mash.1992@gmail.com
Research Interests: The ion abundance of molecular clusters of chiral amino acids can strongly depend on their chiral composition. For example, the Serine octamer and the 12-mer of Proline are strongly enhanced by using enantiopure precursors. My research focuses on the influence of chiral composition of clusters of amino acids with other chiral amino acids and molecules on the ion abundance and in particular on the magic numbers that represent particularly stable structures.
Keren Raz
Position: Ph.D. Student
Email:
keren1.raz@gmail.com
Research Interests: My research mainly deals with enzyme catalysis of formation of terpenes. In order to do so, I am using QM/MM methods. Currently I am investigating the mechanism of the bacterial di-terpene CotB2.
Shani Zev (Levi)
Position: Ph.D. Student
Email:
levishani94@gmail.com
Research Interests: My research deals with Terpenes cyclization catalyzed inside a supramolecular capsule. I mainly focus on understanding the mechanism of cyclization of farnesyl acetate inside the capsule by applying hybrid QM/MM methods.
Michal Roth
Position: M.Sc. Student
Email:
michalroth470@gmail.com
Research Interests: My research is aimed at extending the ZITA technique using betaine clusters. Yoni Toker's lab has shown that rather than producing a complex containing a molecular ion of choice and one betaine molecule, one can also produce clusters containing up to 8 betaine molecules. Thus, by studying the photo-absorption of these clusters one can not only determine whether a chromophore's absorption is shifted by an electric field, but also determine the shift in absorption as a function of the applied electric field.
Dr. Arup Chakraborty
Research Interests: My area of research is computational condensed matter physics. At present, I am involved in searching for cathode materials for Li-ion batteries with high energy density and in the study of nano-clusters.
Reem Tarabeh
Position: M.Sc. Student
Email:
reemtarabeh1997@gmail.com
Research Interests:
My research mainly deals with protein-peptide docking for cortactin SH3-domain. The strategy is based on computationally screening of a large number of peptides and the most promising will be tested in the lab. Such peptides can act as inhibitors of the SH3-domain's interaction with WASp-Interacting protein (WIP) or WASP proteins, as these protein-protein interactions are weak.
Maor Ben Noach
Position: M.Sc. Student
Email:
bennoachmaor@gmail.com
Research Interests: My research deals with High Energy Materials and their stability. I mainly focus on understanding the mechanisms and kinetics of the decomposition processes.
Renana Schwartz
Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: renana164@gmail.com
Research Interests: Exploring the motions of the CueR (Copper Efflux Regulator) protein using molecular dynamics simulations with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)-derived information. The computational research is accompanied by "wet-lab" bio-chemical experiments.
Dr. Vered Wineman-Fisher
Position: Post-Doc
Email:
vwineman@gmail.com
Research Interests:
Orly Aminov
Position: M.Sc. Student
Email:
orly1998@gmail.com
Research Interests: My research deals with atomic surface reduction of interfaces using experimental tools like atomic layer deposition. The experimental work is complemented by computational studies, using DFT calculations. Using DFT, I study the mechanism of the degradation of organo-metallic compounds (e.g. trimethyl aluminum).
Former Members
Name and position in group
Dr. Sooraj K, post-doc
Dr. Susanta Das, post-doc
Dr. Sandeep Kumar , post-doc
Dr. Anil Mhashal , post-doc
Dr. Vijay Singh, post-doc
Dr. Mudit Dixit, post-doc
Dr. Tali Engel, Ph.D.
Dr. Alex Vardi, Post-doc
Dr. Alina Osnis, Ph.D.
Dr. Amir Rubinstein, M.Sc.
Dr. Asaf Azuri, M.Sc.
Ben Dlugatch, M.Sc.
Dr. Dvir Doron, Ph.D.
Dr. Yaron Pshetitsky, Ph.D.
Efrat Pahima, M.Sc.
Haim Sazan, M.Sc.
Hila Martziano, M.Sc.
Karin Povolozki, M.Sc.
Dr. Michal Weitman, Post-doc
Dr. Monica Kosa, Post-doc
Dr. Reuven Eitan, Post-doc
Yehoshua Freud, M.Sc.
Neta Nitoker, M.Sc.
Currently
INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, School of Chemistry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Post-doctoral Fellow, Michigan State University
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Luxembourg
Post-doctoral Fellow,Uppsala University, Sweden
Post-doctoral Fellow, CEA-Liten, Grenoble, France
Post-doc at University of Pittsburgh
Senior researcher, Blavatnik Center of Drug Discovery, TAU
Researcher at Pepticom
Chem & Energy Tech. Manager LG electronics
Scientific advisor at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz
Senior researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science
IDF
Chemical Toxicologist at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in the Chemical & Computational Toxicology team
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Ph.D student at Dr. Igor Schapiro's group, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. student, Bar-Ilan University
Head of quality assurance, Shaniv Paper Industries Ltd.
Chromatography and Mass-Spectroscopy Application support and training at Eldan Electronic Instruments Co. Ltd.
Head of Mass Spectrometry Unit, Bar-Ilan University
Computational Chemistry Unit, Organic Chemistry
Department, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion
Software developer, Optimata
Computational chemist, Evogene
Molecular hematology lab worker, Sheba medical center
Dr. Amreen Bano
Research Interests:
My research domain lies under computational materials science. At present I am working on the advancement of cathode materials for Li-ion batteries in terms of high energy density.