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Solar Energy and Environmental Physics 

Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

Ashkenazy, Yosef, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Climate dynamics and modeling; 
✔ Sand dunes dynamics and modeling; 
✔ Paleoclimate; 
✔ Statistical analysis (linear and nonlinear) of climate records.

Bashouti, Y. Muhammad, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Molecular optoelectronic 
✔ Hybrid Nanodevice
✔ Physical Characterization: Surface photo-voltage , Atomic Force microscopy, Kelvin Probe, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
✔ Energy Transfer at interfaces  
✔ Modelling and Simulations                                                                                                             

✔ 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 
✔ Characterization of concentrator photovoltaic systems 
✔ 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 
✔ 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 
✔ Physics and characterization of ultra-efficient solar cells 
✔ Advanced solar concentrator optics 
✔ Radiometry and illumination optics 
✔ Bio-inspired systems

Karnieli, Arnon, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Remote sensing 
✔ Geographic information systems 
✔ Climate change, precision agriculture

Katz, Eugene A., Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Photovoltaic characterization of various solar cells 
✔ Organic, hybrid organic-inorganic (perovskite) and nanostructured solar cells 
✔ Photovoltaic operation under concentrated sunlight

Meron, Ehud, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Nonlinear physics 
✔ Spatial ecology 
✔ Pattern formation 
✔ Desertification 
✔ Biodiversity

Orlovsky, Lea, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Land cover and land use changes 
✔ Remote sensing for ecological applications 
✔ 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 
✔ Variational and free boundary problems 
✔ Numerical methods 
✔ Granular mechanics and Aeolian sand transport 
✔ Applied superconductivity

Rubinstein, Isaak, (Emeritus), Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Physico-chemical hydrodynamics 
✔ Membrane electrochemistry 
✔ Electrokinetics in micro-nano fluidics 
✔ Concentration polarization in charge selective ionic systems

Sayag, Roiy, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Fluid Mechanics 
✔ Non-Newtonian Flows 
✔ Elasticity 
✔ Free Boundaries 
✔Stability and Pattern Formation 
✔ Porous Media 
✔ Geophysical flows 
✔ Ice-sheet Dynamics

Visoly-Fisher Iris, Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Organic photovoltaic and optoelectronic materials and devices 
✔ Surface science: Thin films 
✔ Scanning probe microscopy 
✔ Surface photo-voltage 
✔ 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 
✔ Photo-electro-chemistry (e.g., water splitting) 
✔ 'Soft' solar cells (e.g. organic) 
✔ Ionic liquids (a.k.a. molten salts) 
✔ Auditory system 
✔ Reaction-diffusion-advection systems 
✔ 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 
✔ Membrane electrochemistry in micro-nano fluidics 
✔ Concentration polarization in charge selective ionic system

Zarmi, Yair, (Emeritus), Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics

✔ Environmental physics 
✔ Nonlinear dynamics (solitons and their interactions, wave phenomena in nature) 
✔ Physical aspects of algal biomass production 

Zemel, Amos, (Emeritus), Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics 

✔ Optimal management of natural resources 
✔ Optimization under uncertainty 
✔ The theory of Dynamic Optimization