Yuval Golan

Yuval Golan
Born	1962 Jerusalem
Residence	Omer, Israel
Nationality	Israel
Fields	Materials Science, Nanomaterials
Institutions	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Website www.bgu.ac.il/~ygolan

Yuval Golan is an Israeli materials scientist who works at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Golan, a professor of materials engineering,^[1] studies materials at the nanoscale level and focuses on their synthesis, characterization and applications. Golan is the Director of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology,^[2] and chairman of the synchrotron committee of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[3]

Biography

Yuval Golan was born in Jerusalem in 1962. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Tel-Aviv University in 1988. He then moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science to study for his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees under the supervision of Israel Rubinstein and Gary Hodes at the Department of Materials and Interfaces. He received his PhD in 1996. In that year, Golan received a Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship and spent 3.5 years in the University of California, Santa Barbara, working with Jacob N. Israelachvili and James S. Speck. He lives in Omer, Israel, is married to Roxana and father of Maayan, Tamara and Tom.

Academic career

Golan joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1999 at the rank of Senior Lecturer. He was granted tenure in 2003, promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to full Professor in 2010. In 2014 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev endowed Prof. Golan with the Eric Samson Chair of Advanced Materials and Processing.

Prof. Golan heads a research group working in the area of nanomaterials and thin films.^[4] He is interested in new properties of materials in the nanoscale, and uses quantum size effects for tuning electro-optical properties of nanoscale compound semiconductors prepared in his lab. He focuses on chemical epitaxy, a term describing well-defined orientation relations between film and substrate in solution-deposited thin films of compound semiconductors.^[5] He also studies the interactions of surfactant molecules with inorganic surfaces and their use for controlling shape, size and morphology of nanomaterials. He has mentored over the years some 40 research students (for PhD and MSc) and postdocs, and has written some 120 peer reviewed research articles and reviews, in addition to over 200 conference papers presented in national and international conferences. His work has been published in journals in the field of nanomaterials such as Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, and MRS Bulletin.^[6]

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