Academic Ties: Indian Officials Visit Technion

Indian Ambassador to Israel Sanjeev Singla visited the Technion yesterday to discuss possible scientific collaborations. Singla, along with First Secretary Mayuri Rahkhee, met with Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan and Indian students attending the Technion.

Singla expressed his hopes to deepen academic ties by further increasing the number of Indian students at the Technion (from approximately 100). He was pleased to hear about the ongoing collaboration in physics between Technion and various Indian universities.

 Indian Ambassador and First Secretary

Prof. Sivan, along with Prof. Alon Wolf, Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development, and Prof. Jacob (Koby) Rubinstein, Executive Vice President for Research, welcomed the ambassador and expressed the importance of further strengthening the ties with India.

Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan and Indian Ambassador to Israel Sanjeev Singla

The Indian Ambassador also met with several Indian students and post-doctoral researchers, who told him about their experiences on campus, and gave ideas about how to help spread the word and promote the Technion among the post-doc community back in India. In attendance were Kaushalendra Patel and Rahul Suresh, Ph.D. students from the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry; researcher Sruthi Sekar and postdoctoral student Sumana Kundu of the Faculty of Materials Engineering; Marketing Manager Hadas Shafir presented Technion International.

Indian Ambassador to Israel Sanjeev Singla (center)