Professional Experience

2024 - present      Materials Chemistry and Surfaces Group 

Covalent Metrology, Sunnyvale, CA, USA  

Member of Technical Staff and Technical Marketing 

• TOF-SIMS scientist. Performing, analysing, and reporting results for different industries.

• Technical marketing. Creating technical content for webpages, conferences, webinars, and social media.

2023 - 2024     Research and Advanced Engineering,

Ford Motor Company,  Dearborn, MI, USA.

Surface Scientist

• The primary focus of this position is to advance a range of company projects focused on both current and future initiatives applying advanced surface analysis techniques (such as TOF-SIMS, XPS, Auger, AFM, SEM, and FTIR). These involve:

• Introducing surface analysis for upcoming energy technology projects and enhancing battery manufacturing

• Utilizing surface analysis to study paint durability

• Offering surface analytical aid for manufacturing and quality concerns to help investigate production process failures.

2016 - 2022      Solid State Institute, The Helen Diller Quantum Center, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Technion, Haifa, Israel.

              Researcher at Surface Science Laboratory 

Managing, operating, and technical support of surface analysis service laboratory specializing in TOF-SIMS and XPS. The laboratory acts as a center for basic and applied research in surface and thin-film physics and chemistry. The laboratory serves academic research and industry projects equally, mainly in microelectronics. Typical industrial responsibilities include supporting equipment calibration, specifically for parameters related to implanted doping, purity of growth layers, stoichiometry of nitrides, and more. Additionally, tasks involve conducting process failure investigations and engaging in reverse engineering activities.

Selected achievements at the position:

• In 2018, I won a one-year tender for an exclusive service contract with the Israeli branch of Tower-Jazz Semiconductors Company. 

• 2020 - 2023—Together with European colleagues, we won a three-year grant of M-ERA.NET (Call 2019) on the subject of "Efficiency enhancement in GaN-based blue to blue-violet LDs by engineered nitride-oxide ohmic contacts."

My lecture at the "Research in the Technion" course about Service laboratories in Technion (Hebrew)

2009 - 2016   Chemistry Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

               Research fellow and lab-engineer in the group of Prof. Gil Alexandrowicz

- I was responsible for developing and establishing a research laboratory, starting from the ground up, that featured a cutting-edge helium spin echo spectrometer and transforming it into a fully operational system. Additionally, my role involved overseeing grants and personnel management, selecting and installing sophisticated equipment, as well as handling scientific duties such as designing experiments, analyzing data, supervising students, participating in conferences, and authoring scientific papers.

- Main research areas: surface dynamics, molecular beams, helium scattering, water spin isomers separation, magnetic focusing of hyperpolarized ortho-water, water on oxygen pre-covered ruthenium, FTIR of water spin-isomers, water structure on gold.

Selected achievements at the position:

• Outstanding worker in the Department of Chemistry for 2015.

• First author on Science paper (Science, 331, pp 319-321, 2011)

   Group page: https://sudy.net.technion.ac.il/

2008 – 2009   Chemistry Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

                    Adjunct Lecturer.

Teaching and guiding of undergraduate courses.

2007- 2008    Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

                    Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Mario Rocca.

- Adsorption of amino acids on metals using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (LT-STM)

- Determining catalytic properties of low-coordinated metal surfaces by interaction with small molecules studied by High-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS), Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD), x-ray Photo-electron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Auger Spectroscopy.

Jan 2008 - Visit at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US.

Host: Prof. Wilfred T. Tysoe.

2001 - 2007   Chemistry Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

                Graduate research assistant and teaching assistant (Supervisor: Prof. Alon Hoffman).

Theses:  Investigation of Adsorption Phenomena and Various Properties of alpha-Cu-Al Alloys, Cu and Al Oriented Single Crystal Surfaces Using Electron and Ion Spectroscopy

- Surface phenomena and adsorbates induced processes on alloys using a variety of surface-sensitive techniques: XPS, UPS, LEIS, TOF-ISS, SEM, and AFM

- Physics of surface-particle interaction (X-ray, UV, ions, electrons).

-Teaching and guidance of physical and analytical chemistry.

Feb-Jul 2004, May-Jul 2005 - Visit at the LCAM/CNRS, Orsay, France.

Host: Dr. Vladimir A. Esaulov.

Scholarships:

Marie Curie Scholarship for one year of collaboration at the LCAM/CNRS, Orsay, France.

2001 - 2001   CyOptics, R&D Lab, Yokneam, Israel

                 Process Developer.

Development of assembly process for optoelectronic components.

1997 - 2001:  Oil Refinery LTD, R&D Lab, Haifa, Israel

                 Undergraduate research assistant.

Develop corrosion protection methods by investigating self-assembled organic layers, inorganic compounds, and different types of coatings using electrochemical methods.