Ofek
Peretz
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DK, 405
Education
- 2023–2026: Postdoctoral Associate, Sibley School of Mechanical andAerospace Engineering, Cornell University
- 2018–2023: Ph.D. (direct track), Mechanical Engineering, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology
- 2013–2017: B.Sc. (summa cum laude), Mechanical Engineering, Technion– Israel Institute of Technology
Research Interests
- Minimal and distributed actuation
- Micro-combustion actuation and high-energy-density soft systems
- Energy harvesting and energy cycles in small-scale autonomous systems
- Soft robotics: underwater propulsion and underground locomotion
Honors and Awards
- U.S. Department of Energy InDEEP Prize – Top 10 Wave Energy Technologies (2024)
- Technion Jacobs Award for Outstanding Article – best paper in engineering for 2022 (2023)
- Nehemia Levtzion Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students, Council for Higher Education (2019–2022)
- “Sherman Interdisciplinary Scholarship” for distinguished academic achievements (2017)
- Rafael most valued student employee award (2016)
- Rafael scholarship for excellence, based on academic and professional achievements (2015)
Selected Publications
- Peretz O., Walker H., Blasi D., Aracri S., Cowen E., Pawlak G., Shepherd R.F., “Modular, Scalable, and Resilient Soft Wave Energy Harvester”, Device 13, 101166 (2026).
- Aubin C.A., Heisser R.H., Peretz O., Timko J., Lo J., Helbling E.F., Sobhani S., Gat A.D., Shepherd R.F., “Powerful, soft combustion actuators for insect-scale robots”, Science 381, 1212–1217 (2023).
- Peretz O., Ben Abu E., Zigelman A., Givli S., Gat A.D., “A metafluid with multistable density and internal energy states”, Nature Communications 13, 1810 (2022).
- Peretz O., Ben Abu E., Zigelman A., Givli S., Gat A.D., “Multistable metafluid based energy harvesting and storage”, Advanced Materials 35, 2301483 (2023)
- Heisser R.H., Aubin C.A., Peretz O. et al., “Valveless microliter combustion for densely packed arrays of powerful soft actuators”, PNAS 118(39), e2106553118 (2021).
- Peretz O., Mishra A.K., Shepherd R.F., Gat A.D., “Underactuated fluidic control of a continuous multistable membrane”, PNAS 117(10), 5217–5221 (2020).
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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