Biography

Prof. (Em.) Aharon Gedanken obtained his Ph. D. degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel. After his postdoctoral research at USC in Los Angeles, he got a lecturer position at BIU on Oct. 1975. He spent two sabbatical years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980-8l, and 1987-88 as well as a summer in 1984. He also has done research at NIDDK, NIH in the summers of 1989, 1990 and 1991. In 1994 he switched his research interest from Spectroscopy to Nanotechnology. His special synthetic methods of nanomaterials include: Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET). Since 2004 he is mostly focused on the applications of nanomaterials. Gedanken has published 860 per-reviewed manuscripts in international journals and has applied for 38 Patents. His H-Index is 96 according to the WEB of SCIENCE, and 110 according to Google Scholar. Gedanken has served as the Department Chairman as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He is on the editorial boards of 8 international journals. He still leads a group of 11 research people. He was a partner in 14 European community projects 3 in FP5, 4 in FP6, 5 in FP7 and 2 in Horizon 2020. He was a coordinator of 2 EC projects, of the five EC (European Community) FP7 projects one of them, SONO, was coordinated by him. This project was announced by the EC as a “Success Story”. He is a partner in PROTECT a textile project in Horizon 2020. He was the Israeli representative to the NMP (Nano, Materials, and Processes) committee of EC in FP7. He was awarded the prize of the Israel Vacuum Society in 2009 and the Israel Chemical Society for excellence in Research in Feb. 2013. Two startup companies have originated from his Patents. One, SONOVIA, is selling successfully antiviral face masks (SONOMASK). Another of his products that is being sold successfully in Israel is Prophecy, a cosmetic product made of nanoparticles of Hyaluronic acid.

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Research Interest

Materials Science Research, Nanotechnology Research, Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery Research for Anti-Cancer Drugs, Infectious Diseases, Renewable Energy Research