Ashkenazy, Yosef, Alexandre
Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Climate dynamics and modeling;
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Sand dunes dynamics and modeling;
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Paleoclimate;
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Statistical analysis (linear and nonlinear) of climate records.
Bashouti, Y. Muhammad, Alexandre
Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Molecular optoelectronic
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Hybrid Nanodevice
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Physical Characterization: Surface photo-voltage , Atomic Force
microscopy, Kelvin Probe, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
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Energy Transfer at interfaces
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Modelling and Simulations
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Chemical Reaction at nanomaterials
Bel, Golan (Chairperson), Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔Climate dynamics (physics, statistical analysis and
machine learning)
✔Biophysics
✔Nonlinear dynamics
✔Flow and transport in disordered media
✔Single molecule spectroscopy
✔Non-equilibrium statistical physics
Burde, Georgy I. (Emeritus), Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔Fluid dynamics (current interests: water waves,
hydrodynamic stability)
✔Applications
of symmetry based methods to differential equations
✔Soliton
dynamics
Faiman, David (Emeritus), Alexandre
Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Solar radiation measurement
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Characterization of concentrator photovoltaic systems
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Investigation of (vanadium redox) storage batteries
Feuermann, Daniel, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Production of nanomaterials using highly concentrated
solar radiation
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Design of optics for concentrating solar collectors. Selective coatings
Gordon, Jeffrey M. (Emeritus),
Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Nanomaterial synthesis by highly concentrated solar
and ultra-bright lamp light
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Physics and characterization of ultra-efficient solar cells
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Advanced solar concentrator optics
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Radiometry and illumination optics
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Bio-inspired systems
Karnieli, Arnon, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Remote sensing
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Geographic information systems
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Climate change, precision agriculture
Katz, Eugene A., Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Photovoltaic characterization of various solar
cells
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Organic, hybrid organic-inorganic (perovskite) and nanostructured solar
cells
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Photovoltaic operation under concentrated sunlight
Meron, Ehud, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Nonlinear physics
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Spatial ecology
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Pattern formation
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Desertification
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Biodiversity
Orlovsky, Lea, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Land cover and land use changes
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Remote sensing for ecological applications
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Use of satellite imagery for study land degradation and desertification
Niv, Avi, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Optics
✔ Nanotechnology
✔ Solar cells
Prigozhin, Leonid, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Mathematical modeling
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Variational and free boundary problems
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Numerical methods
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Granular mechanics and Aeolian sand transport
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Applied superconductivity
Rubinstein, Isaak, (Emeritus),
Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Physico-chemical hydrodynamics
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Membrane electrochemistry
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Electrokinetics in micro-nano fluidics
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Concentration polarization in charge selective ionic systems
Sayag, Roiy, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Fluid Mechanics
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Non-Newtonian Flows
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Elasticity
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Free Boundaries
✔Stability
and Pattern Formation
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Porous Media
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Geophysical flows
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Ice-sheet Dynamics
Visoly-Fisher Iris, Alexandre
Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Organic photovoltaic and optoelectronic materials and
devices
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Surface science: Thin films
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Scanning probe microscopy
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Surface photo-voltage
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Characterization through a ‘bottom up’ approach – from the properties of a
single building block to understanding the system’s behavior
Yochelis, Arik, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and
Environmental Physics
✔ Renewable energy and pattern formation
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Photo-electro-chemistry (e.g., water splitting)
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'Soft' solar cells (e.g. organic)
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Ionic liquids (a.k.a. molten salts)
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Auditory system
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Reaction-diffusion-advection systems
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Global bifurcation theory and spatially localized states (e.g. dissipative
solitons)
Zaltzman, Boris,
Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Physico-chemical hydrodynamics
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Membrane electrochemistry in micro-nano fluidics
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Concentration polarization in charge selective ionic system
Zarmi, Yair, (Emeritus),
Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Environmental physics
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Nonlinear dynamics (solitons and their interactions, wave phenomena in
nature)
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Physical aspects of algal biomass production
Zemel, Amos, (Emeritus),
Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
✔ Optimal management of natural resources
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Optimization under uncertainty
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The theory of Dynamic Optimization
