Prof Arie Zaban
Bar-Ilan University,
zabana@mail.biu.ac.il
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Arie Zaban was born in Israel in 1961. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry (with highest distinction) at Bar-Ilan University (1987-1995). After a 2 year postdoctoral stint at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Denver, CO), he was appointed to the senior faculty at Bar-Ilan, where he is currently a Full Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Bar Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. Prof. Zaban has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and has 8 patents. He has been awarded several prizes and fellowships such as the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist, a Rothschild Fellowship, a Levi Eshkol Scholarship and the Michael Landau Research Prize in Renewable Energy. His research interests are in the fields of photo-electrochemistry and materials science, with a focus on renewable energy resources. Current activities in the Zaban lab include: (i) development of dye sensitized solar cells, plastic solar cells and photocatalytic purification systems, (ii) new approaches to light harvesting and utilization in photovoltaic systems mainly aimed at efficient utilization of the solar spectrum, (iii) basic understanding of the photophysical processes involved in photo-electrochemical systems.