Experience

LUSIX

• Israel
• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research and Development Process Engineer

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Working as a full-time Process Engineer in the R&D group at Lusix- a leading company in the booming lab diamonds industry. Lusix is a certified sustainable company (by CRS) and makes all its diamonds using solar energy. ● Developing and overseeing novel processes to grow laboratory diamonds using PECVD (Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition) ● Complex troubleshooting involving machinery, process gasses, vacuum systems, computing and more. ● Managing projects: setting and adjusting process parameters; co-designing custom-made parts, analyzing and presenting results; etc. ● Instructing and supervising the work of technicians across teams. Show less



YEDA - Technology Transfer Company of Weizmann Institute of Science

• Israel
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research And Development Engineer

  • Apr 2020 - Oct 2021

  Working on a short-term project to Bridge The Gap (BTG) between academy and industry, i.e., demonstrating an application for a research with unrealized commercial potential. ● Maturing a Carbon Nano-Tube (CNT) functionlization technology and co-authoring a patent thereof. ● Demonstrating an application of a Polymer/CNT composite with highly-desired properties -- conductive and with significantly increased strength -- using miniscule amounts of CNT. ● The project was successful and $200k were raised to continue to the next phase. Show less



The University of British Columbia

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Masters Candidate

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2019

  Full-time Master's student at the Composite Research Network (CRN) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Researching wrinkling in carbon fiber pre-impregnated epoxy composites. ● Conducting an extensive literature review, approaching the wrinkling issue from a mathematical approach. ● Planning a Design Of Experiment (DOE) to test the effect of factors such as mold geometry, curing temperature and pressure. ● Building a test jig, employing SolidWorks platform. ● Presenting an academic presentation quarterly to CRN's business partners: leading companies in the composite materials field in Canada. ● Quitting the program with my supervisor's blessing due to personal issues after one year. Show less



Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Israel
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Researcher

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

  Exclusive summer internship : "Young Research Associates" of 15 selected, interdisciplinary excelling students, at the Blaustein Institutes for Desert research in the Negev desert. ● Joining Dr. Iris Visoly-Fisher's lab at the Institute for Environmental Physics and Solar Energy to research a possible Hole Transporting Material (HTM) and micro-structure stabilizer for Perovskite-type PV cells. ● Characterizing the HOMO-LUMO levels of brominated Polyaniline (PANI) using Cyclic Voltammetry and UV-Vis. Fabricating thin films via drop-casting and spin-coating. ● It was found that indeed the brominated PANI was suitable for its application as an HTM in perovskite PV cells and Dr. Visoly-Fisher used the results to submit a grant for the continuation of the research. Show less



Israel Defense Forces

• Israel
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Materials Technician

  • Nov 2010 - Nov 2012

  Full service in the Materials Branch of the Technological Unit, Intelligence Corps, IDF. Working as a materials Technician in project (operations) labs, fabricating custom-made composite parts for the use of elite army units. ● Fabricating intelligence products using advanced composite materials. ● Molding and de-molding big, complex objects using RTV silicone. ● Employing operation-grade standards under tight deadlines. ● Introduction to the Materials Engineering field and concepts. ● Gaining initial lab experience and valuable know-how. Show less