Curriculum Vitae

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D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Room 236
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel, 3200003

Email: asafda@campus.technion.ac.il

Education

  • M.Sc., 2018, Energy Engineering, Grand Technion Energy Program, Technion, Israel.
  • B.Sc. Cum Laude, 2015, Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel.

Research Interests

  • Mechanics of Materials – martensitic phase transformations, kinetics of phase transformations, X-ray diffraction; application to shape memory alloys.
  • Transport phenomena – fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer; application to soil, rocks, advanced materials and membrane separation processes.
  • Elasticity – linear elasticity, poro-elasticity; application to fluid-solid interactions, hydraulic fracturing, and modeling of relaxation processes in shale.
  • The water-energy nexus: Energy Efficiency of water production technologies; fluid dynamics of hydraulic fracturing processes and associated issues.

Teaching Interests

  • Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics.
  • Applied Solid Mechanics.
  • Introduction to Numerical Methods.
  • Introduction to Experimental Methods.
  • Laboratory in Experimental Methods.

Awards and Honors

  • Faculty of Mech. Eng., Departmental Excellence Scholarship, Spring Semester 2021.
  • Faculty of Mech. Eng., Departmental Excellence Scholarship, Winter Semester 2020.
  • Jacobs PhD Excellence Scholarship, 2021.
  • The Misrahi Foundation grant for participating in the Batsheva de Rothschild seminar on The Science of Neutrons. 
  • Daniel PhD Excellence Scholarship, 2020.
  • Israel Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources scholarship for graduate student research in the field of energy, 2017.
  • Vivian Konigsberg Award for Exellence in Teaching, 2018.
  • Technion graduate scholarship, 2015-present.

Publications

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Membership in professional societies

  • Society of Engineering Sciences (SES).
  • Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM).
  • American Physical Society (APS).

Technion activities

  • Engineers Without Borders (EWB), Technion section, 2014-2015.
  • Practical course, “Engineering within Developing Communities”, Shantou University, Guang Dong, China, via Technion, 2015.
  • Technion Student Association (TSA), Holocaust Delegation to Poland, 2017.