Ben-Gurion University invested 42.5 million dollars in the construction of the Ilza Katz Institute for Science and Technology in the Nanometric Field, which was inaugurated in May 2010 as part of the 40th session of the university's Board of Trustees
Prof. Yuval Golan has recently been appointed to the position of director of the Ilza Katz Institute for Science and Technology in the nanometric field at Ben-Gurion University.
Prof. Golan is an active researcher in the field of nanomaterials who has published over eighty articles in leading international journals and guided about twenty student-researchers to higher degrees. In 2007 he received the Toronto Award for an outstanding young researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and in 2009 he received the Ben-Gurion University President's Award for excellence in research. He is a member of the Synchrotron Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2009.
Prof. Golan was born in Jerusalem in 1962. He received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute in 1996, from where he continued for a post-doctorate at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 1999 he joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a faculty member where he currently serves as the chairman of the teaching committee for undergraduate studies.
Ben-Gurion University invested 42.5 million dollars in building the Ilza Katz Institute for Science and Technology in the nanometric field, which was inaugurated in May 2010 as part of the 40th meeting of the university's Board of Trustees.
