Krill Award to Dr. Louisa Meshi from the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University

The prize, in the amount of 10.000 dollars, will be awarded to her at a ceremony that will take place on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at the Bloomfield Science Museum, Givat Ram, in Jerusalem. Dr. Meshi is one of the eight winners of the prize this year. 

Dr. Louisa Meshi from the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University will next month receive the prestigious Krill Award from the Wolf Foundation for excellence and relevance in her scientific research. The award, in the amount of 10.000 dollars, will be awarded to her at a ceremony to be held on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at the Science Museum "S Bloomfield, Givat Ram, Jerusalem. Dr. Meshi is one of the eight award winners this year.

Dr. Louisa Meshi is a graduate of the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University and completed her three degrees within the department. After a post-doctorate in the Department of Physics at the University of Bristol, England. She worked at the Ilsa Katz Institute for Nanotechnology as the director of an electron microscopy laboratory. In 2009, she joined the Department of Materials Engineering as a lecturer and was recently accepted as a member of the Nanotechnology Institute. In 2011, she was appointed chairman of the teaching committee for a bachelor's degree in the Department of Materials Engineering. During her PhD, Dr. Meshi won several prestigious awards, including the Wolf Award for outstanding doctoral students and the Margolis Award for outstanding research in the field of electron microscopy.

Dr. Meshi is an active member of professional associations in Israel and around the world: she is a member of the committee of the Israeli Society for Microscopy, secretary of a European focus group on the subject of electronic crystallography and was recently elected to the position of member of the central committee on the subject of electronic crystallography of the World Crystallography Association. Dr. Meshi organized Booked two internationals (one in Belgium and the other in Italy) on the subject of studying methods of electronic crystallography and served as chairman of microsymposia at various conferences in Israel and abroad and won prestigious grants (among them GIF young and "Bikura"). In Dr. Meshi's group there are six students studying towards a master's degree and dealing with various topics related to the development of electronic crystallography methods.

The Krill Awards for excellence in scientific research are given in memory of the late Binyamin and Gitla Krill Mansbach Schlangar. The awards are intended for outstanding academic faculty members, at the rank of lecturer or senior lecturer who have not yet received tenure, who are employed at one of the universities in Israel.

Six awards of $10,000 each are awarded annually, in the fields of exact sciences, life sciences, medicine, agriculture and engineering. The winners are selected by the Wolf Foundation's scholarship committee from outstanding candidates submitted by the universities in Israel. The selection is made according to criteria of excellence and the research topic and its importance. The awards are funded by the Krill family, and were awarded for the first time in 2005.