People

Staff

Joseph Lefkowitz
Assistant 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
Lovely Mallick
Postdoc
Research Topic: Chemical Kinetics Investigation of Green Hypergolic Hybrid Rocket Propellants.
Email: mallick@campus.technion.ac.il
Office: Lady Davis 384

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

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

David (Dudu) Peles
Laboratory Engineer
Email: david.p@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
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
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
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
Amir Cohen
MSc student
Research Topic: Flow Characterization of Hypersonic Jet Combustion Engine using Infrared Camera
Email: amir204@campus.technion.ac.il
Rany Kabour 
MSc student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions
Email: Rany.kabour@campus.technion.ac.il

Research Assistants

Omer Kalitzky
Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma assisted reforming for enhanced ammonia flames and reduced NOx emissions
Email: omer.kal@campus.technion.ac.il
Nour Nasrallah
Undergraduate 
Research Topic: Plasma enhancement of renewable fuels
Email: n.nasrallah@campus.technion.ac.il
Saar Levi
Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: saar.levi@campus.technion.ac.il
Or Bracha
Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Hypergolic ignition in Hybrid Rocket Engine
Email: orbracha@campus.technion.ac.il
Yarden Milshtein
Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Plasma-assisted Ignition in Flowing Environments
Email: yarden.m@campus.technion.ac.il

 

Alumni

Grad Students

Iker Laso
MSc student
Research Topic: Nano-Pulsed High Frequency Discharge (NPHFD) Ignition
Karin Linshitz
MSc student
Research Topic: Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Research Assistants

Rena Araidy
Undergraduate | Aerospace student
Research Topic: Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy
Email: renaaraidy@gmail.com
Balram Sharma
Visiting Undergraduate | Aerospace student (National University of Singapore)
Research Topic: Nanosecond Pulsed High Frequency Discharge (NPHFD) Ignition

Project Participants

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