Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen

Prof. Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen

Head of Lab | The Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg
chair in Advanced Materials

Born in Israel in 1962, Rachel grew up in Rehovot. She studied Chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and received her B.Sc. in 1985. Rachel completed her M.Sc. (1987) and Ph.D. (1994) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of polymer physics, did postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute from 1994 to 1995 in the field of thin films and studies of wetting, and at the University of Minnesota throughout 1996, in the field of polymer adhesion. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University in 1997 and was appointed a lecturer in 1998, an Associate Professor in 2004, and a Full Professor in 2010. She was a Visiting Professor at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Deptartment of Applied Mathematics 2004-2005, and at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2012-2013. She is holding the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg professorial chair in Advanced Materials.