Prof. Alla Zak

Dean of the Faculty of Sciences

Head of the Laboratory for Synthesis and Investigation of Nanomaterials

alzak@hit.ac.il

Prof. Alla Zak is Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Head of the Nanomaterials Laboratory at HIT, and Scientific Advisor in the Dept. of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute. An expert in nanoscience and nanotechnology, she has a PhD from the Dept. of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute and an MSc and BSc in Physics from Kishinev University in Moldova. Before joining HIT in 2012 she served as Chief Scientist at NanoMaterials Ltd. She has published more than 80 scientific papers, participated in more than 70 scientific conferences worldwide, and received several national and international awards and grants, in recognition of her excellence and innovation in research. Prof. Zak holds four patents on original methods and breakthroughs.