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advisors, I developed actuators and development of this infrastructure at UC involving high accelerations or rapid
electroactive polymers and invented Berkeley, but this time with a focus on
innovative manufacturing techniques online mathematical optimization. phase changes. Research in this
on a micronic and nanometric scale. Position I teach systems theory
During my PhD, I was awarded the and control theory courses at the field has many applications: medical
Marian Gertner Medical Nanosystems Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
Fellowship, the NA'AMAT Award for My students and I conduct research (extracting cell components , laser
Women in Engineering Sciences, and about the intersection between control
the prestigious National Student Award theory, mathematical optimization and surgery, shock wave lithotripsy),
from the American Vacuum Society. machine learning.
I did a post-doctoral fellowship at Journey I did my BSc in a double- industrial (releasing particles created
Stanford University, where I
was awarded the Stanford degree program at the Technical by combustion in vehicles and industry,
ChEM-H Mechanobiology University of Kaiserslautern
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Germany and Lund dispersing exhaust particles from jet
and the Postdoctoral University in Sweden. I
Award from the Israeli completed my MSc in engines), and ecological (transferring
Council for Higher engineering mathematics
Education (VATAT). at Lund University and aerosol pollutants from the
Family Status I am TU Kaiserslautern with top
married to Giora, whom I grades. I did my PhD at Lund petrochemical industry). One complex
met outside the first applied University.
mathematics class of my physics challenge presented by research in the
degree; and mother to Maya, who was Family Status I am 36 and
born during my PhD; Oz, who was born married with a daughter. Our daughter field is analytically describing systems
during my post-doc; and Alon, who speaks four languages: German,
was born just before I started at the Korean, English and Hebrew. in which there is more than one phase.
Technion. In My Free Time Over the last 12 years
In My Free Time My ideal evening I have lived in Germany, Sweden, Great To address this challenge, the lab will
would be cooking while listening to Britain, the United States and Israel.
good music or an interesting lecture. I Hebrew is the sixth language I have apply innovative technologies such as
make chicken soup and challah bread studied. Since leaving Germany, I enjoy
with my kids almost every Friday. I also cooking and baking German dishes for rapid simultaneous photography with
love hiking in nature with my family. my family and friends.
Inspiration Discussing science with Inspiration My icons are those multiple cameras and high frequency
young researchers always inspires me. who surround me: my family, friends,
teachers, colleagues, students, and pressure measurements.
Christian Grussler people I collaborate with – who have
all influenced my way of thinking. A Journey I completed all three of
Where I Come From My two teacher’s job is to impart knowledge;
previous positions were post-doctoral but even more than that, we learn and my degrees in the Department of
fellowships at the University of teach a way of thinking.
Cambridge and at UC Berkeley. At the Mechanical Engineering at Ben-
University of Cambridge, I was part of a Omri Ram
group developing theoretical tools for Gurion University of the Negev,
neuroscience systems. The problems The Transient Fluid
I was researching led me to focus on Mechanics Laboratory where my doctoral thesis focused on
what we call “variation diminishing” – a
concept that combines neural networks Where I Come From I joined the the interaction of shock waves with
and systems theory. At Cambridge I faculty after completing a post-doctoral
worked to understand this idea within a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University structures. I then became a post-
systems theory framework, and I began in Baltimore.
discovering connections to machine Position I am setting up the Transient doctoral fellow and researched dynamic
learning. I continued working on the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. The lab
will research transient flow phenomena phenomena of multi-phase flow.
in gases and liquids, including those
During my PhD I was
awarded the Negev
Fellowship from
Ben-Gurion
University and
the Adams
Fellowship
from the Israel
Academy of
Sciences and
Humanities. My
post-doc was partially funded
by a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship
from the United States government. My
lab at the Technion was established in
part with funding from the Zuckerman
Faculty Scholars program.
Family Status I am married to Gali,
a post-doctoral fellow in the Faculty of
Biomedical Engineering, and father to
6-year-old Talia.
In My Free Time I like reading
articles and books in fields that are
not connected to my research, namely
biographies of interesting people and
the history of science.
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