People

Guy Makov -Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Materials Engineering

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Beer Sheva 84105, ISRAEL

makovg@exchange.bgu.ac.il

Tel. +972-8-6461823

Current Group Members

Graduate students

Inbal Gavish - Ph.D.

Effect of proton irradiation on material properties

Research interests:

• Modelling of proton irradiation effects on metals

• Characterization of defects in irradiated samples

Eyal Oren - Ph.D.

Modeling mechanical response of fcc metals

Research interests:

• Modeling atomistic phenomena of dislocations using molecular dynamics simulations

• Modeling dislocations using dislocation dynamics simulations

• Building inter-atomic potentials using machine learning

Daniela Kartoon - Ph.D.

Ab-initio Molecular dynamic calculations of liquid metals

Research interests:

• Physical properties of metals at elevated temperatures and pressures

• Liquid-liquid phase transitions

Neeraj Mishra

Ab-initio study of defects in PbS

Research interests:

• DFT study of radiation damage in materials

Yuri Kirshon - M.Sc.

Radiation damage in metals

Research interests:

• Classical MD simulation of metals

• Defect Properties in metals

Neta Nir - M.Sc.

Short Range Order (SRO) in liquids

Research interests:

• SRO in water under different temperatures ans pressures

Alexandra Makarochkin - M.Sc.

Radiation damage in metals

Shir Ben Shalom - M.Sc.

Sound velocity measurements in liquid Ga-In alloy

Undergraduate students

Postdoctorals

Moran Kamilyan Emuna

Pressure, phase diagram and physical properties of liquid metals and alloys

Research interests:

• Measurement of physical properties of liquid metals and alloys

• Liquid-liquid phase transitions measurements

• The relations between the phase diagram and the anomalous physical properties of binary liquid alloys, in particular sound velocity

• Prediction of liquid metals and alloys properties under extreme conditions, in particular electrical resistance

Elad Segev

Electronic properties of nanometric semiconductors

Research interests:

• Modelling of nanometric scale semiconductor systems

• DFT simulation of novel semiconductor materials for the use in electronic devices (PV, optoelectronics)

• Studying adsorption of ligand molecules on nanometric semiconductors and the interplay with their growth mechanism.

Uri Argaman

Density Functional Theory Calculations of atomic and solid systems

Research interests:

• Ab-initio calculations of metals and semiconductors

• Phonon calculations

• Thermodynamic properties of materials

• Ionization energies of atoms

Former Group Members

Dan Mordehai - Ph.D. 2005

Relation between Microscopic Properties and Macroscopic Dynamic Properties of Metals

Current affiliation: Assoc. Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel.

Eli Brosh - Ph.D. 2008

Thermodynamic calculations of phase diagrams for elements and alloys at high pressures

Peri Landau - Ph.D. 2009

Microstructure and dislocation patterns evolution in deformed metals

Yaron Greenberg - Ph.D. 2010

Physical Anomalies in Liquid Metals

Svetlana Orly Becker - M.Sc. 2004

TEM Microstructure Analysis of Dislocation Boundaries in Aluminum

Dimitry Fishman - M.Sc. 2010

Investigation of the formation of dislocation structures by the method of dislocation dynamics

Yogev Dahan - M.Sc. 2010

Nanometric phase diagram of Bi-Sn system in the solid state

Eli Kraisler - M.Sc. 2010

Density functional calculations for atomic systems

Current affiliation: Sr. Lecturer, Institute of Chemistry, HUGI, Israel.

Yulia Shor - M.Sc. 2011

Physical properties and structure in liquid metals

Martin Mayo - M.Sc. 2013

Determining short range order in liquids

Current affiliation: PhD student, Theory of condensed matter group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Olga Moredinok - M.Sc. 2015

Dislocations structures in f.c.c. alloys

Nitzan Edelman - M.Sc. 2015

Development of EAM based potential for the study of defects in b.c.c metals

Shahar Okavi - M.Sc. 2015

Velocity of sound in elemental and binary alloy liquids

Alon Luski - B.Sc. 2013

Modelling a thin structure in order to optimize absorbing infra-red EM wavelength using nano particle and surface plasmon

Current affiliation: M.Sc. student, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Daniel Kaplan - B.Sc. 2016

Density functional calculation of Optical Properties of Semiconductors

Magen Lahat - B.Sc. 2016

Dynamics of dislocations

Stanislav Shor - M.Sc. 2018

Thermodynamic, kinetic and structural properties of liquids