אמיר
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דן קאהן, 307
ראש המעבדה לזורמים ואלסטיות
Education
- 2005 – 2010: Ph.D. (special track) Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- 2001 – 2005: B.Sc. (summa cum laude) Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Research Interests
- Metamaterials and metafluids for energy harvesting, storage, and refrigeration
- Soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery and search and rescue applications
- Mechanical neuromorphic computing
Academic appointments
- 2012 – current: Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2012 – 2018: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2010 – 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.
Membership in Professional Societies
- The Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM)
- American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
- IEEE member
- European Mechanics Society (EuroMech)
- Material Research Society
Honors and Awards
- 2015: Halevy Innovative Applied Engineering Award
- 2015: Rich Technion Innovation Award
- 2013: Tark award for research of aerospace structures
- 2010: The Lester-Deutsch fellowship for postdoctoral studies
- 2009: Jacobs prize for best publication of the year 2009 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2008: Gutwirth award based on doctoral achievements
- 2008: Ilan Ramon award based on doctoral achievements
- 2006: Rubin award for the Technion's Ramtech project (two-stage ramjet)
- 2006: Excellence scholarship based on undergraduate studies
- 2005: Summa cum laude, B.Sc in Aerospace Engineering
Selected Publications
- Aubin, C. A., Heisser, R. H., Peretz, O., Timko, J., Lo, J., Helbling, E. F., … Gat A.D. & Shepherd, R. F. (2023). Powerful, soft combustion actuators for insect-scale robots. Science, 381(6663), 1212-1217.
- Peretz O., Ben-Abu E., Zigelman A., Givli S., Gat A.D. (2023) “Multistable Metafluid Based Energy Harvesting and Storage“, Advanced Materials, 2301483.
- Peretz O., Ben Abu, E., Zigelmann A., Givli S., Gat A.D. (2022) "A metafluid with multistable density and internal energy states" Nature Communications 13(1) 1-8.
- Peretz O., Mishra A.K., Shepherd R.K. & Gat A.D. (2020) "Fluidic control of continuously multistable structures," PNAS 117 (10), 5217-5221.
- Ben-Haim E., Salem L., Or Y.& Gat A.D. (2020) "Single-Input Control of Multiple Fluid-Driven Elastic Actuators Via Interaction Between Bi-Stability and Viscosity," Soft Robotics, 7(2), 259-265.
- Ben-Haim E., Ilssar D., Or Y., Gat A.D., (2022) “Viscous flow fields in hyperelastic chambers” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 937.
- Zigelman A., Breitman P., Gat A.D. (2023) “The role of a pre-wetting layer in resolving the contact line paradox of thin films in infinite elastic domains,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 962.
תחומי מחקר
- מטא-חומרים ומטא-זורמים לאנרגיה ירוקה, אגירת אנרגיה, וקירור
- רובוטיקה רכה לשימושים רפואיים וחילוץ והצלה
- חישוב ניורומורפי מכני
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