Assoc. Prof. Maya Davidovich-Pinhas
Group Leader
e-mail: dmaya@technion.ac.il
Research associate
Shiran Isaac-Israeli
Shiran graduate her BSc in Chemical Engineering at the Technion in 2014. She worked at Dexcel Pharma Technologies Ltd for 4 year and afterwards at Biober LH Technologies Ltd. for additional two and a half year before joining us in May 2022. Shiran is leading the project on the development of water-in-oleogel system as Margarine replacement in collaboration with Tnuva.
Graduate Students
PhD candidates
Areen Ashkar
PhD candidate
e-mail: areen92@campus.technion.ac.il
Areen received her B.Sc. in Biochemical Engineering (2016) and her M.Sc. in Biotechnology and Food Engineering (2018) from the Technion , Israel. Her research focuses on designing micro-oleogel particles for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs and nutraceuticals.
Ina Nephomnyshy
PhD candidate
e-mail: inanapo@campus.technion.ac.il
Ina received her B.Sc. (2014) and her M.Sc. (2019) in The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering , Technion , Israel. Between her B.Sc. and M.Sc. she worked in Anvei -Zion for two years as a food technologist. Her research focuses on structuring biphasic systems using new natural structuring agents.
Karin Wagner
PhD candidate
e-mail: wagner.karin@campus.technion.ac.i
Karin is a Ph.D candidate since November 2019. She received her B.Sc and M.Sc. in Food Technology and Nutrition from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Her current research in the lab focuses on the use of triacylglycerol and diacylglycerol as oil structuring agents.
Daniel Golodnizky
PhD candidate
e-mail: danigol1994@gmail.com
Daniel graduate his B.Sc. in Biotechnology and Food Engineering in the Technion (2019). His current research focuses on thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of liquid-solid transition of saturated and unsaturated triacyl glycerides (TAGs).
Eden Shlush
PhD student
e-mail: edenshlush@gmail.com
Eden received her B.Sc. in Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion (2019). Her research focuses on biodegradable packaging using renewable sources.
MSc students
Shay Mugliansky
MSc student
e-mail:
shay.i@campus.technion.ac.il
Shay graduate her BSc in the Biotechnology and Food Engineering Department, Technion (2022). She joined our group in March 2021, and her project focuses on protein based bigel system for cheese substitute.
Anat Doroshev
MSc student
e-mail: anatdoroshev@campus.technion.ac.il
Anat graduate her BSc in the Material science and Engineering faculty, Technion. She joined our lab in March 2022 as part of the polymer engineering program. her research focuses on the formulation of biodegradable plastic films based on combination of ethyl-cellulose and Polycaprolactone (PCL).
Yonatan Goldman
MSc student
e-mail: gyonatan@campus.technion.ac.il
Yonatan graduate his BSc in the Hebrew University and joined our lab on May 2023.
Research assistants
Lior Shitrit
BSc student
e-mail: liorsh@campus.technion.ac.il
Lior is a BSc student in Biotechnology and Food Engineering. She is currently working on the development of water-in-oleogel system as Margarine replacement in collaboration with Tnuva.
Chen Gal
BSc student
e-mail: chen.gal@campus.technion.ac.il
Undergraduate Students
Emil Eshaya
BSc student
e-mail: emil.eshaya@campus.technion.ac.il
Nizan Friedman
BSc student
e-mail: nizan.fri@campus.technion.ac.il
Daniella Spector – BSc Student at Cornell University, USA.
Rinat Chen – BSc Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Food Technologist in Tnuva.
Aya Hai Haisa – BSc Biotechnology and Food Engineering.
Limor Harris-Naori – MSc Biotechnology and Food Engineering.
Shir Cohen – BSc Biotechnology and Food Engineering, MSc student at Tel-Hai College.
Sharon Laufer – BSc Biotechnology and Food Engineering.
Dr. Or Galant, Post-doctoral fellow at Prof. Sabrina Spatari, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion