Group Members

Professor Wayne D. Kaplan is a graduate of the Technion, and after a post-doc at MPI Stuttgart he joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Technion in 1995. He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a member of the Israel Microscopy Society, and he served as Dean of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (2010-2014), and as the Executive Vice President for Research of the Technion (2014-2019). Continue Reading Wayne D. Kaplan

Dr. Rachel Marder completed her MSc in 2010 and her PhD in 2015, both in Materials Engineering at the Technion. Her PhD research focused on the densification mechanisms during Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS). SPS is a novel hot-pressing technique, which uses a pulsed dc-current to heat the ceramic powder, and it has been successfully applied to fabricate fully-dense ceramics within a few minutes only. In 2015 Rachel joined the Metal-Ceramic Interface Group, where she is working as a full time researcher. Her research includes processing and sintering of ceramics (oxides, carbides) and ceramic matrix composites, as well as microstructure characterization (SEM, TEM, X-ray analysis). Additionally, she is teaching the undergraduate course in ceramics at the Technion (since 2019). Continue Reading Dr. Rachel Marder

Yathreb completed her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 2019 and her BSc in Materials Engineering from Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem, in 2020. During her undergraduate studies she participated in research on the development of fabrication methods for constructing devices based KLTN crystals in Prof. Aharon  Agranat’s laboratory at the Department of Applied Physics. Her MSc research topic in Kaplan’s group is on the Influence of Cr on Microstructural Evolution of Alumina. Yathreb can be contacted at Tel: 04-829-4290 or by mail at yathreb.sh.@campus.technion.ac.il Continue Reading Yathreb Shalabi

Iman completed her bachelor's degree in 2021 Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion. Before starting her MSc, she worked as a lab assistant in Kaplan's group. She is working on calcium doped alumina and her research goal is to understand the observed elongated grains shape, and measure the grain boundary mobility of specific planes, in order to understand the effect of calcium doping. Continue Reading Iman Naamne

Asaf completed his Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering & Chemistry at the Technion, Haifa, in 2023. During his undergraduate studies, for his senior project, he participated in research in Professor Maytal Caspari Toroker’s group on the behavior of Hematite as a catalyst for water splitting under an applied external electric field using computational methods. He later undertook another project in Kaplan’s group on the two-step sintering of alumina doped with MgO. Continue Reading Asaf Kazmirsky