I was born in Bat-Galim (“daughter of the waves” i.e. mermaid) couple of blocks from the sea during the days it was still legit to walk this distance barefoot.

My first “engineering” experience as a young boy was when we built a tiny hut on the tree in our back yard. Luckily no one was inside when it all collapsed. Our next hut was on the ground and it included two high-tech upgrades:

1. A fire place (incl. chimney) the heart of which was the drum of an old washing machine.
2. A cooler that was based on a drain pipe that ran across the window and dripped water on a bed sheet.

My high school studies were at the Hareali Haivri school and undergraduate and graduate studies at the EE department,
Technion. My PhD was on charge transport in III-V quantum well lasers trying to understand their high speed limitations. Upon deciding to change field and move to biology I accidently found about organic semiconductors and that no one has ever made a solid state laser based on these materials. In 1996, 8 months after joining the group of professor sir Richard Friend, we reported the first conjugated polymer based laser. More works I was involved with and other liked can be found here and if you are interested in my CV here.