Welcome to Technion’s new Ph.Ds

The Technion has awarded Ph.D. degrees to 193 of its students. At a festive and emotional ceremony the Technion’s president told the graduates and their families a brief history of the achievements of the Technion and its alumni over the years.

Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie at the Phd , Ceremony

Dr. Stefania Pellegrinelli, the first graduate of the joint double-Ph.D. track at the Technion and the Politecnico di Milano addressed the gathering on behalf of the graduating students. Throughout her studies, whose curriculum was established as part of the cooperation between the Technion and the Italian university, Dr. Pellegrinelli was advised by professors from both institutions and spent a year at each of them, ultimately receiving a Ph.D. from both universities. Dr. Pellegrinelli, who spoke in both Hebrew and Italian, specializes in planning the robotic assembly in production lines, and during her Ph.D. studies designed a robotic production line for a subsidiary of the Italian car manufacturer Fiat. Her advisor at the Technion was Prof. Anath Fischer of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

“I attended a high school that focused on academic studies and my favorite subject was math,” recalled Dr. Pellegrinelli after the ceremony. “For my Ph.D. studies at the Technion I decided to specialize in robotics. The relationship between lecturers and students at the Technion is much more personal and I really enjoyed my studies here.”