Brief Biography – Hossam Haick

Dr. Hossam Haick, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, has been a member of the Technion Faculty since October 2006.  He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. (direct track) in Chemical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University (1998) and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2002), respectively.  After a two-year period at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2002-2004), he moved to the California Institute of Technology - Caltech (2004-2006) for a postdoctoral research.  As a new recruitment of the Technion, Dr. Haick has made a significant mark through his development of an “electronic nose” to detect cancer, which earned him the prestigious Marie Curie Excellence Grant (2007-2011) – the largest and first ever given to an Israeli scientist. 

Dr. Haick has received several awards for his research, including the list of the world's 35 leading young scientists for 2008 - TR35 - of the prestigious scientific journal MIT's Technology Review, the Horev Chair for Leaders in Science and Technology (2006-2008), the Israel-France Award for Academic Excellence (2008), the Herschel Rich Innovation Award (2008), the Minerva Short-Term Research Award (2008), the Bergmann Award for Excellent Young Scientists (2007), the CREATE Award (2007), the Al-Qendil Prize (2007), and the YMCA (2007) and Rotary (2007) Honorary Decorations.  In addition, Dr. Haick was selected for the lists of “50 Leading Israelis for 2007” and “four saluted Israeli scientists” of Yedioth Aharonot.  Other honors and awards include the Fulbright fellowship, ‘Israel Ministry of Science and Technology' awards, Dr. Avrahami prize, and CNR-IMIP prize.

Besides his recent and past achievements in research, he had excellent achievements as a lecturer, expressed by a wide variety of prizes that he received for (constantly) excellence in teaching. Dr. Haick had also worked as a supervisor for a broad range of talented graduate and undergraduate students worldwide.

The research interests of Dr. Haick include electronic nose devices, nanomaterials-based chemical sensors, molecule-based electronic devices, electrical contacts to molecules, electronic charge transport through organic molecules and molecularly-modified metal/semiconductor junctions.
 
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