Welcome to New Faculty

Orientation day for new faculty members at Technion.

Technion President: “Excellence is our sole criterion for accepting students and faculty”

On December 13th, the Technion held an orientation day for new faculty members, attended by the Technion board and veteran faculty members. The new faculty members are engaged in an exciting variety of fields, including: industrial design; protein decomposition in the living cell; mechanisms of cancer; neuroscience; decomposition of soil pollutants; eating disorders and their implications; semiconductors; quantum gravity; precise microscopy and the effect of sleep on the development of cancer.

The event was opened by Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie. “The institution that you have joined is a new Technion, since more than half of the faculty has been replaced with new people over the past decade. You have been selected carefully, as the Technion does not compromise on excellence, neither when it comes to student admissions or when it comes to hiring faculty. Student admission at the Technion is based on a single criterion: excellence. There is no affirmative action at the Technion, only accelerated education frameworks that offer an equal opportunity for populations and individuals who did not receive the basic education at school required for admission to the Technion. This also applies to the faculty that we recruit. Excellence on the part of each of you in your field has been the sole criterion for your being hired by the Technion.”

The event opened with icebreakers led by Associate Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari from Faculty of Education in Science and Technology. Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Prof. Hagit Attiya presented the key aspects of the academic promotion process. Faculty members received additional information from: Executive Vice President for Research Prof. Wayne D. Kaplan; Prof. Ben-Zion Levi – Dean of the Graduate School; Dr. Abigail Barzilai – Head of the Center for the Promotion of Learning and Teaching; Technion Executive Vice President and Director General Matanyahu Englman; Research Prof. Moti Segev; Prof. Marcelle Machluf; and Prof. Avinoam Kolodny.

The new faculty members are: Assistant Prof. Semion Zhutovsky and Assistant Prof. Adi (Ish Am) Radian (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering); Prof. Ezri Tarazi, Associate Prof Aaron Sprecher, Assistant Prof. Ruth Liberty-Shalev, Assistant Prof. Danny Broitman and Assistant Prof. Ram Eisenberg (Architecture); Associate Prof. Anat Levin, Assistant Prof. Ariel Epstein, Assistant Prof. Lior Kornblum, Assistant Prof. Omer Bobrowski and  Assistant Prof. Yuval E. Yaish (Electrical Engineering); Assistant Prof. Nadav Amdursky (Chemistry); Assistant Prof. Tamar Segal-Peretz (Chemical Engineering); Associate Prof. Ari Turner, Assistant Prof. Vincent Desjacques, Assistant Prof. Guy Bonin and Assistant Prof. Itai Arad (Physics); Assistant Prof. Ron Rosenthal and Assistant Prof. Michael Khanevsky (Mathematics); Associate Prof. Alexander Bronstein (Computer Science); Dr. Dan Michaels and Assistant Prof. Oksana Stalnov (Aerospace Engineering); Dr. Kinneret Teodorescu (Industrial Engineering and Management); Assistant Prof. Oded Kleifeld (Biology); Assistant Prof. Yoav Shechtman (Biomedical Engineering); Prof. Ze’ev Ronai, Prof. Eyal Gottlieb, Assistant Prof. Hagai Wolfensohn, Assistant Prof. Noam Kaplan; Assistant Prof. Raz Palty and Assistant Prof. Shai Berlin (Medicine).

The following researchers joined the Technion in the hospital staff track: Clinical Assistant Prof. Dean Keren, Dr. Ruth Perets Dr. Emily Avitan-Hersh, Assistant Professor Ilan Bruchim, Dr. Yaniv Zohar, Clinical Assistant Prof. Oren Tomkins-Netzer, Dr. Irena Kessel, Dr. Gabriel Nierenberg, Dr. Michal Cohen, Dr. Noga Kerem, Dr. Omri Emodi, Clinical Assistant Prof. Fahad Hakim, Clinical Associate Prof. Tzvi Dwolatzky, Dr. Tzofnat Weiner, Dr. Ran Kramer, Clinical Assistant Prof. Shaul Lin and Dr. Gidon Berger.

, 2016-17 New faculty at Technion