MEMBERS
Dr. Itai Epstein
Principle Investigator
Office: Broadcom building, Room 012
Phone: +972-(0)3-6406877
Email: itaieps@tauex.tau.ac.il
Dr. Zehavit Bar On
Lab manager
Zehavit Received her B.Sc in Bio-Medical Engineered in 2007 from Jerusalem College of Technology, her M.Sc in bio-physics in 2011, and her PhD in physics in 2017, both from Bar-Ilan University. Prior to joining the L2DMI gourp, she worked at NADAV-Diagnosis and Medical Treatment LTD and the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Bar-Ilan University, being in-charge of the microscopy unit and image process automations.
Email: zehavita@tauex.tau.ac.il
Dr. Ori Avayu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ori Joined the L2DMI lab in November 2022 as a Postdoctoral fellow. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2020 at the Tel-Aviv University, investigating optical Metasurfaces for multi-wavelength beam shaping. Ori received his B.Sc. in Physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prior to joining the lab, Ori worked for a start-up company developing an augmented reality optical combiner based on plasmonic Metasurfaces.
Email: oria@mail.tau.ac.il
Yonatan Gershuni
PhD Student
Yonatan received his B.Sc in physics and astronomy from Tel Aviv University in 2019. He conducted his research for his M.Sc in physics also in Tel Aviv University at Dr. Pomerantz’s lab, studying acceleration of Ions by intense laser interaction with thin solid targets.
Email: jgershuni@gmail.com
Michael Klein
MSc Student
Michael is has obtained his B.Sc in the joint materials engineering and chemistry program at Tel Aviv University. During his B.Sc. studies, he did a summer project at prof. Patolski’s group and a final project at prof. Yoram Dagan’s group. After high school, he postponed his military service for a year volunteering at a youth movement. He studied gastronomy for a year in Italy at the University of gastronomic science.
Email: michael.mklein@gmail.com
Anabel Atash
MSc Student
Anabel received her B.Sc in Material Engineering and Chemistry from Tel Aviv University in October 2021. After the B.Sc, she worked in Western Digital as Device engineering for 1 year, and then joined the L2DMI group as an M.Sc student in the EE program.
Email: anabelatash@mail.tau.ac.il
Tomer Eini
Research Assistant
Tomer is a fourth-year B.Sc student in the joint Electrical Engineering and Physics program at Tel Aviv University. He graduated with honors from “Yitzhak Rabin Municipal High School” in Modi’in. During high school he enrolled and completed with honors several math courses at the Open University in the “Academy in High School” program. He is part of the prestigious reserve academic program “Psagot” of the IDF. During his studies he was accepted to the school’s honor program in Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.
Email: tomereini@mail.tau.ac.il
Liam Leiderman
Research Assistant
Liam immigrated to Israel from Brazil with his family in 2015. He quickly adapted to his new life in Israel making new friends and learning the language. He worked as a private math teacher for middle school students and joined the honors class in his school. He is now a third-year B.Sc student in the joint Electrical-Engineering/Physics program at Tel Aviv University. He graduated with honors from “Lady Davis High School” in Tel Aviv. He is now part of the prestigious academic program “Psagot” of the IDF.
Email: liaml@mail.tau.ac.il
Eli Landa
Research Assistant
Eli is a third-year B.Sc student in the joint Electrical Engineering and Physics program at Tel Aviv University. During his studies he was accepted to the engineering faculty honor program. After he graduated with honors from “Rishonim High School” in Rishon LeZion he was accepted to the prestigious academic program "Psagot" of the IDF, which he currently takes part of.
Email: elilanda@mail.tau.ac.il
Ben Levii
Research Assistant
Ben is a third-year B.Sc student in the joint Electrical Engineering and Physics program at Tel Aviv University. He studied in honor class, and graduated with honors from “Yitzhak Shamir High School” in Petah Tikva. During high school, he took several courses at Bar Ilan University, under ״Readiness to University” program. He is now part of the prestigious academic program "Psagot" of the IDF.
Email: ben.levi9643@gmail.com
Ilana Kats
Research Assistant
Ilana is a third-year B.Sc student in the joint Electrical Engineering and Physics program at Tel Aviv University. She is part of the prestigious academic program “Psagot” of the IDF. She graduated with honors from “De Shalit High School” in Rehovot. During 12'th grade she and her teammates represented their high school in The “Safe Cracking” International Physics Tournament. They won first place in the national competition and second place in the international one.
Email: ilanakats@mail.tau.ac.il
Daniel Nissim
Research Assistant
Daniel is a third-year B.Sc student in the joint Electrical Engineering/Physics program at Tel Aviv University. He graduated with honors from “Kiryat Hinuh Yafo” in Tel Aviv.
Email: dandanieln@mail.tau.ac.il
Yoav Williamson
Research Assistant
I love physics and I am curious to find out more about light-matter interaction!
Currently in my last year of bachelor's degree in physics
Email: williamson1@mail.tau.ac.il
Dr. Zhiqin Huang
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Zhiqin Huang is a Longshan Scholar at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (Nanjing, China). Her main research interest covers Plasmonics, nonlinear/ultrafast optics, metamaterials, holography, AR, etc. Zhiqin received a B. S. in Optic Information Science & Technology and a BBA in Business Administration from Wuhan University of Technology (Wuhan, China). She got her M. S. in Applied Physics from University of Massachusetts Boston (Boston, USA). Zhiqin received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Duke University (Durham, USA) and her PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. David R. Smith focused on metamaterial waveguide holography. After graduation, she worked as an optical engineer at DigiLens (California, USA).