2019-2022 MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM fund winners

Since 2019, MIT faculty have been collaborating with faculty from Israeli Universities by virtue of the MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund for Faculty Collaboration.
Here are the MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM fund winners:

MIT-Israel Zuckerman Scholars

 

 

2021-2022

How abstract is phonology
Donca Steriade of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT will collaborate with Roni Katzir of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University.


Israel’s community-based healthcare, urbanization and environment as a basis for developing indicators for pandemic resiliency and planning healthy cities
Mariana Arcaya of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT will collaborate with Noam Shomron of the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.


Non-invasive Acoustic Hyperthermia and Local Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Brain Tumors
Natalie Artzi of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science in the School of Engineering at MIT will collaborate with Haim Azhari of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


Time Reversal of Nonlinear Hamiltonians for Quantum Enhanced Metrology
Vladan Vuletic of the Department of Physics in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Michael Rosenbluh of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University.


Vibrational engineering of ferroic order in van der Waals materials
Nuh Gedik of the Department of Physics in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Dominik Juraschek of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Tel Aviv University.

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2020-2021

Nanoengineered Silk Bioelectronics
Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering at MIT will collaborate with Ulyana Shimanovich of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science.


Launching the Technion Center for Computational Intelligence in Medicine
Leo Anthony Celi of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science in the School of Engineering at MIT will collaborate with Joachim Behar of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


Extreme Black Hole Accretion
Erin Kara of the Department of Physics in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT will collaborate with Iair Arcavi of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Tel Aviv University.


Fundamentals and Applications of Highly-Polarizable Semiconductors
Rafael Jaramillo of the Materials Science and Engineering Department in the School of Engineering at MIT will collaborate with Omer Yaffe of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science.


Digital Glass, Traditional Materials and Architectural Memory
Caitlin Mueller of the Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT will collaborate with Eran Ehrlich of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


Boosting Vision on the Go—Perceptual Learning Through Visuo-Motor Engagement
Pawan Sinha of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Roy Mukamel of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University (Jointly funded with the MIT-Israel Broshy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fund)

 

 

2019-2020

A Bone Microstructure Approach to Studying Animal Domestication in the Levant
Christine Ortiz and Max Price of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Filipe Natalio of the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science.


Artificial Proteins for Energy Transport Devices
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen of the Department of Chemistry in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Nadav Amdursky of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion-Israel institute of Technology.


Elucidating the Neural Mechanisms of Expectancy-Based Effects in Psychotherapy
John Gabrieli of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Sigal Mano-Zilcha of the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa.


The Quest for Dark Matter Interactions
Jesse Thaler of the Department of Physics in the School of Science at MIT will collaborate with Tomer Volansky of the Particle Physics Department at Tel Aviv University.


Transient Strongly Nonlinear Dynamics: Opportunities and Challenges
Themistoklis Sapsis of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering at MIT will collaborate with Oleg Gendelman of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.


Ultrasound-Induced Immunotherapeutic Nanomedicine Delivery to Brain Tumours Under MRI Guidance
Natalie Artzi of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science in the School of Engineering at MIT will collaborate with Haim Azhari of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.