New Faculty Members

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology recently held a gala evening in honor of this year’s 27 new faculty members. Technion President Professor Uri Sivan addressed the audience and began by remarking how his own Technion journey began exactly 30 years ago when he joined the Technion Faculty.

“Most Israeli industry started here at the Technion,” the President told the new faculty members, “and support for the country — its economy and security — is part of the Technion’s DNA. The Technion has always known how to innovate and reinvent itself, and now, as we approach the Technion’s centennial year, we are asking ourselves again, how we can prepare for the next hundred years. Welcome, and I wish you all a successful integration into the Technion family.”

Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan, with new faculty members

Vice-President for Academic Affairs Professor Shimon Marom gave a moving speech, directed at his colleagues in the wider Technion community and the management, saying, “Many fruitful seeds were planted in our soil this year, and the vision of the Technion in the next ten years or so will be that of the trees that have grown from them. Much depends on the ability of the young scientists to measure, reason, doubt, dare, persevere, and strive for truth. But not less depends on us, the soil in which these seeds are planted, and on our dedication to their nourishment … I hope that we successfully face the challenge. I pray that we can provide them with a sense that the Technion is a place, a home, not an IP address but an actual space; a campus rich in academic, intellectual, and educational buzz … I hope they see in us living examples of dedication, openness, integrity, reliability, avoidance of discrimination, and respect of others.”

The new faculty members joining the Technion are: Dr. Naama Lang-Yona from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Dr. Shira Wilkof, Dr. Davida Schumann, Dr. Jonathan Natanian, and Dr. Guy Austern from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning; Dr. Michael Levy, Dr. Yitzhak Reizel, and Dr. Dan Bracha from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Dr. Assaf Yosef Zinger from the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering; Dr. David Andres Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Dr. Charlotte Vogt, and Dr. Renana Gershoni Poranne from the Shulich Faculty of Chemistry; Dr. Hila Peleg and Dr. Sarah Keren from theHenry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science; Anna Keselman from the Faculty of Physics; Dr. Omri Ram and Dr. Christian Grussler from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Ariel Rapaport, Dr. Chaim Even-Zohar, Dr. Erez Nesharim, and Dr. Nadav Dym from the Faculty of Mathematics; Dr. Ben Engelhard from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine; Dr. Dana Harari, Dr. Yevgeni Berzak, and Dr. Atar Herziger from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management; Dr. Alejandro Cohen from the Andrew and Irna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Dr. Dustin Lazarovici from the Department of Humanist Studies.

The event was also attended by two faculty members who joined in the spring semester of 2001 – Dr. Luai Khoury and Dr. Yonatan Calahorra, both from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering.