Professional Activities

Positions in academic administration

2011-2016Chair of undergraduate teaching committee, Department of Materials Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2014-2015Member of the follow-up committee of the senate, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Professional roles in scientific community

2017-presentChair of the Commission on Electron Crystallography (CEC) of the Internation Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
2017-presentSecretary of the Israeli Society for Microscopy (ISM)
2011-2017Member of the Commission on Electron Crystallography (CEC) of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCR). (link to the IUCr page)
2011-2015Secretary of Special Interest Group (SIG 4) on Electron Crystallography within the framework of the European Crystallography Association
2011-2019Member of the board committee of the Israeli Society for Microscopy (link to the ISM page)
2011Co-director of international electron crystallography school "New methods to explore structure and properties of the nano world" (link to the Erice school page), Erice, Italy.
2008-2011Chair of Special Interest Group (SIG 4) on Electron Crystallography within the framework of the European Crystallography Association (link to the SIG4 page)
2008-2011Consultant of the Commission on Electron crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography(link to the CEC page)
2006Member of organizing committee and co-director of the international "X-El 2006 school on structure determination using combination of powder X-ray diffraction and electron crystallography methodologies". Antwerp, Belgium.

Educational activities

Courses taught

1)"X-ray Diffraction" - course is given to the undergraduate students, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Given each fall semester starting from 2007. (Course number 365.1.4441)
2)"Introduction to Material Science 2" - course is given to the undergraduate students, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Given each spring semester starting from 2008. (Course number 365.1.2011)
3)"Introduction to Electron Microscopy" - course is given to the undergraduate students, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Given each fall semester starting from 2010. (Course number 365.1.4611)
4) "Advanced methods for defect characterization" - course is given to graduate students, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Given each spring semester starting from 2012. (Course number 365-2-6955)