User:Haick Hossam

Dr.Hossam Haick, an Assistant Professor in the Department 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 a nano-array technology to detect cancer, which earned him the prestigious Marie Curie Excellence Award (€1.73 Million) in 2006 and ERC Award (€1.8 Million) in 2010.

More recently, Dr. Haick led a European consortium of eight universities and companies and received a grant of €5.4 Million for the development of advanced generation of nanosensors for screening, diagnosis and monitoring of lung cancer. Dr. Haick has received several awards for his research, including a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l'Ordres des Palmes Académiques), the list of the world’s 35 leading young scientists for 2008 of the prestigious scientific journal MIT’s Technology Review, the Horev Chair for Leaders in Science and Technology, The Norman and Barbara Seiden Prize, the Israel-France Award for Academic Excellence, the Herschel Rich Innovation Award, the Minerva Short-Term Research Award, the Bergmann Award for Excellent Young Scientists, the CREATE Award, the Al-Qendil Prize, and the YMCA and Rotary Honorary Decorations.

In addition, Dr. Haick was selected for the lists of “Ten Most Promising Young Israeli Scientists” of Calcalist (2010),“Young Israelis of the Year” of the Jerusalem Post” (2010), “50 Leading Israelis for 2007” and “four saluted Israeli scientists” (2007) 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. Dr. Haick serves as an associate editor of several peer-reviewed journals and as a senior member of various national and international committees. The research interests of Dr. Haick include nano-array devices, nanomaterials-based chemical sensors, breath analysis, volatile biomarkers, molecule-based electronic devices, and electrical contacts to molecules, and electronic charge transport through organic molecules.

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