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June 24, 2026
Congratulations to my graduate student Itai Danieli
Today, I want to specially congratulate my graduate student Itai Danieli for his newly accepted paper. This was one of the toughest professional adventures I experienced, but every round of reviews and rejections prompted Itai do improve the paper until this last version where one could not comment but accept. The process took some 14 months! To which I will add that the original idea and the mathematical developments are 100% Itai's, which is indeed an outstanding achievement.

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June 21, 2026
Evgeni Viluska defended his master's thesis
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This afternoon, Evgeni Viluska, co advised by Dr. Yonatan Rotbaum, defended his master's thesis on the static and dynamic properties of printed PA66, and got a 94 as final grade.

Warm congratulations!

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June 7, 2026
2026 SEM Annual
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The good thing about conferences is the friendly atmosphere, meeting friends, giving a talk about Tamir Albik's work (Gleb Gil Goviazin), and of course back to gorgeous NYC.

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May 20, 2026
Warm congratulations to Asher John Joshua 
(and Orel Guetta) who has been admitted in the direct PhD track! Best wishes of success AJJ!
May 13, 2026
Congratulations to my two students
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Asher John Joshua (with Dr. Orel Guetta) and Itai Danieli who participated to the Faculty Graduate Research day. Moreover, Asher John Joshua was selected together with 2 other graduates to represent the department at the all-Technion Research day.

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April 26, 2026
D. Rittel has been elected fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
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February 26, 2026
Today, Itai Danieli passed his candidacy exam
He is now an official PhD student. Warm congratulations!  
February 8, 2026
Warm congratulations to Aharon Zaritzky,
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co-advised with Dr. Zev Lovinger, who defended today his masters's thesis: "Investigating failure characteristics of metals at high strain rates using magnetically driven expanding cylinders" with flying colors.

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January 11, 2026
A new paper in JMPS
with Dr. Juan Carlos Nieto Fuentes, Adeline Wihardja and Prof. K. Bhattacharya. The paper reports on the dynamic mechanical behavior of liquid crystal elastomers. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mQHf57ZkGmAD  
January 1, 2026
The Dynamic Fracture Lab team
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(Ofri Rosenthal, Amit Mann, Yuval Berenstein-Melamed, Hadas Katz, Ariel Siloni) is preparing for a new round of exciting experiments, under the guidance of Dr. G.G. Goviazin.

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December 10, 2025
Welcome to Hadas Katz & Ofri Rosenthal
Hadas Katz and Ofri RosenthalI am delighted to welcome Hadas Katz (right) and Ofri Rosenthal (left) who will work on their undergraduate final project that deals with polymer infiltrated metallic scaffolds. For a start, they attended today the Israeli Conference on Additive Manufacturing and got a taste of the subject.  
December 1, 2025
A warm welcome to Aqualina Nahra and Neave Ben Jacob
who will model numerically long bones for their final project.

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November 26, 2025
Warm congratulations to Tamir Albik
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who defended his M.Sc. thesis with flying colors (and one paper).

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November 9, 2025
Mrs. Hodaya Mana, a new M.Sc. student
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The Dynamic Fracture Laboratory welcomes a new M.Sc. student, Mrs. Hodaya Mana, who will investigate the mechanical properties of ULTEM produced by various routes.
October 28, 2025
Warm congratulations to Dr. Keren Shemtov-Yona
from Tel Aviv University School of Dentistry (אוניברסיטת תל-אביב - בית הספר לרפואת שיניים) and Mech. Eng. Technion, and our graduate student Yoni Miara, for their newly accepted paper in the prestigious journal Dental Materials. The study is one of a kind that systematically investigates the effect of mechanical load and corrosive atmosphere, combination thereof, on the integrity of the nano titanium dioxide protective layer. abstract