Winner of the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists – 2012

Tzahi Cohen-Karni wins one of the six IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled “Nanowire Nanoelectronics: Building Interfaces with Tissue and Cells at the Natural Scale of Biology.”

E-mail: tzahi@mit.edu

Academic Degrees:

  • Harvard University, 2011, Ph.D. in Applied Physics

  • Weizmann Institute of Science, 2006, M.Sc. in Chemistry

  • Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2004, B.Sc. in Materials Engineering

  • Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2004, B.A. in Chemistry

Ph.D. Thesis Title:

Nanowire Nanoelectronics: Building Interfaces with Tissue and Cells at the Natural Scale of Biology

Advisor:

Prof. Charles M. Lieber

Thesis Essay: [link to full text; pdf file – 848.3kB]