Amirav Research Group
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."
—Phil Jackson
Our Team:


Lilac Amirav
Lilac Amirav received her Bachelor degree in chemistry from Tel Aviv University at the age of 18, and was then recruited to the IDF where she served as a chemist in the technology unit of the intelligence force. Amirav obtained her Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of technology, working with Prof. Efrat Lifshitz, and was a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Paul Alivisatos at UC Berkeley. In October 2011 she joined the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion as an Assistant Professor. She is also affiliated with The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) and the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), and an active member of the I-CORE - Israel Solar Fuels Consortium.

Philip Kalisman
Schulich Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Brown University 2006
Ph.D., UC Berkeley 2012

Yifat Nakibli
Lab Manager
B.Sc., Technion 2004
M.Sc., Technion 2007
Ph.D., Technion 2013

Sandip Pahari
PBC Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., University of Calcutta, India 2006
M.Sc., University of Delhi, 2008
Ph.D., CSIR-CSMCRI, Gujarat, 2014

Imanuel Peer
Graduate student
B.Sc. Technion, 2013

Nathan Walton
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., University of Utah, 2008
Ph.D., University of Utah, 2013

Shaik Firdoz
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.Tech., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, 2007
M. Tech., Indian Institute of technology Roorkee, 2010
Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2015