Staff

Joseph Lefkowitz

Associate Professor | Head of the Lab | Primary investigator
Phone: (077) 887-3492
Email: joseph.lef@technion.ac.il
Office: Lady Davis 752

Si Shen

Postdoc | Research Manager
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: sishen@campus.technion.ac.il
Office: Lady Davis 384

G. Mahesh Nayak

Postdoc
Research Topic:
1. Porous Inert Media Combustor Towards Distributed Combined Heat and Power Generation using Zero-Carbon Fuels
2. Evaluation of TurboGen Combustor Performance with Methane/Hydrogen Mixture
Email: gmaheshnayak@campus.technion.ac.il

Silky Elanjickal

Postdoc
Co advisor - Beni Cukurel
Research Topic:
1. Porous Inert Media Combustor Towards Distributed Combined Heat and Power Generation using Zero-Carbon Fuels
2. Evaluation of TurboGen Combustor Performance with Methane/Hydrogen Mixture
Email: silky@campus.technion.ac.il

David Peles

Laboratory Engineer
Email: david.p@technion.ac.il
Office: Lady Davis 384

Odelia Shchory

Laboratory Administration
Email: ae.cdtcf@technion.ac.il
Office: Lady Davis 384

Graduate Students

Galia Faingold

PhD Student
Research Topic: Plasma enhancement of renewable fuels
Email: gfaingold@campus.technion.ac.il

Syamantak (Sam) Nath

PhD Student
Research Topic: Hypergolic Ignition in Hybrid Rocket Engines
Email: nath@campus.technion.ac.il

Joël Van Der Lee

PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Danny Michaels)
Research Topic: Combustion Characteristics of Thermally Cracked Fuel and Surrogates in a Scramjet Combustor
Email: van-der-lee@campus.technion.ac.il

Omri Hamo

PhD student
Research Topic: Characterization of Miniature Hall Thrusters using In-situ Optical Methods and Numerical Analysis
Email: shemo@campus.technion.ac.il

David Castaneda

PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Benny Natan)
Research Topic: Theoretical Investigation of the Hypergolic Ignition in a Hybrid Rocket
Email: david0ak@campus.technion.ac.il

Weronika Senior Tybora

MSc student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: weronikas@campus.technion.ac.il

Max Bernard

MSc student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions
Email: max.bernard@campus.technion.ac.il

Research Assistants

Saar Levi

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: saar.levi@campus.technion.ac.il

Nour Nasrallah

Undergraduate
Research Topic: Plasma enhancement of renewable fuels
Email: n.nasrallah@campus.technion.ac.il

Guy Balfour

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: guybalfour@campus.technion.ac.il

Idan Sharir

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Scramjet Engines, Numerical Analysis of Plasma-assisted Combustion
Email: idan.sharir@campus.technion.ac.il

Yarden Milshtein

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: yarden.m@campus.technion.ac.il

Tal Yitzhak

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Porous Inert Media Combustor Towards Distributed Combined Heat and Power Generation using Zero-Carbon Fuels
Email: Tal.yitzhak@campus.technion.ac.il

Josh Adjedj

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions
Email: josh.a@technion.ac.il

Alumni

Past Postdocs, Grad Students and Research Assistants

Lovely Mallick

Postdoc
Research Topic: Chemical Kinetics Investigation of Green Hypergolic Hybrid Rocket Propellants.

Nir Druker

Postdoc
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Scramjet Engines, Numerical Analysis of Plasma-assisted Combustion
Email: nird@campus.technion.ac.il
Office: Lady Davis 384

Iker Laso

Iker Laso
MSc student
Research Topic: Nano-Pulsed High Frequency Discharge (NPHFD) Ignition

Karin Linshitz

MSc student
Research Topic: Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Rany Kabour

MSc student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions
Email: Rany.kabour@campus.technion.ac.il

Rena Araidy

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy

Balram Sharma

Visiting Undergraduate | Aerospace student (National University of Singapore)
Research Topic: Nanosecond Pulsed High Frequency Discharge (NPHFD) Ignition

Eyal Grauer

Project Participants
Undergraduate | Mechanical student
Research Topic: PIV integration and analysis, control of turbulences
Email: Eyalgrauer@campus.technion.ac.il

Omer Kalitzky

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions

Yuval Levy

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions

Amir Cohen

MSc student
Research Topic: Flow Characterization of Hypersonic Jet Combustion Engine using Infrared Camera
Email: amir204@campus.technion.ac.il

Or Bracha

Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Hypergolic ignition in Hybrid Rocket Engine
Email: orbracha@campus.technion.ac.il

People

Past Postdocs, Grad Students and Research Assistants