April 2021: We welcome new Postdoc Lakshmi Pisharody & Camilah Powell to the group. Good luck to both of you!
Feb 2021: We say good bye to Abhishek who finished his postdoc in my lab. He will continue his scientific career in USA!
Dec. 2020: We say good bye to Chidam who finished his postdoc in my lab. He will continue his scientific career in India!
October 2020: We welcome Brhane A.Tesfahunegn for his MSc research work in the group. Good luck Brhane! October 2020: We welcome Danial Park for his MSc research work in the group. Good luck Danial!
November 2019: We welcome Chetan Prakash Sharma for his PhD work in the group. Good luck Chetan!
May 12-15, 2019: Congratulations to Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan who won the poster prize at NAMS in Pittsburgh, USA. (see photo above) Feb 7th, 2019: I organised a workshop which hosted a delegation from The Netherlands. Many thanks to the group members to worked hard to make a very successful day!
Feb 2019: We say good bye to Amit who finished his postdoc in my lab. He will continue his scientific career in USA! See pictures above of Laser tag and Dinner! January 2019: Congrats to Nitzan Kandiyote who published her 2nd article in Langmuir!
January 2019: We say good-bye to Nitzan and Yaeli - Good luck in your future carreers!
October 2018: We welcome Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan to the group!
September 2018: Great time at laser tag. Thanks everyone! It was very fitting to play laser tag with so many people interested in laser-induced graphene!
September 2018: Congrats to Nitzan Kandiyote who published her article in Langmuir!
June 2018: (top) picture after group dinner in our backyard.
May 2018: Swatantra Singh presented his research at the MELPRO conference in Prague. He won the student lecture presentation award! Congratulations!
May 2018: Picture after group dinner in our backyard. (above)
April 2018: We welcome Dyuti Banerjee to the group for her MSc research work. Good luck!
April 2018: We welcome Abhishek Gupta for his postdoctoral studied and congratulate him for winning a BCSC fellowship!
Mar. 2018: We welcome a new PhD student Mauricio Kleinberg, and Postdoc Amit Thakur: Good luck to both of you!
Feb 2018: Congratulations to Canwei Mao who successfully defended his masters thesis! We wish you much success in your PhD in Switzerland!
Oct. 2017: Welcome to new PhD student Yaeli Oren. Good luck!
Sept. 2017: Canwei Mao went to the Wetskills challenge at the Technion and his group project won first prize! Great job Mao! Here is a link to the story!
Above: Mao Canwei (Pictured far right) group winning first prize at the Wetskills Challenge (Sept. 2017). Below: Monthly lab dinner, June 23, 2017
Student Awards
2014 - Poster prize to Shai Badalov at ICOM in China 2015 - Poster prize to Shai Badalov at WATEC in Israel 2018 - Best student lecture award to Swatantra P. Singh at MELPRO in Prague 2019 - Poster prize to Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan at NAMS in Pittsburgh USA.
Group Leader
Christopher J. Arnusch
Current Students
Post-doctoral level
Camilah Powell
Lakshmi Pisharody
Doctoral level
Mauricio Kleinberg
Chetan Prakash Sharma
Masters level
Daniel Park
Brhane A.Tesfahunegn
Technical Staff
Revital Sharon
Past Students
Exchange students (3-4 months research) Elias Bodner (Germany) – 2012 YSEP-BMBF Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Technische Universität Dresden
Joyce (Ni) Zhu (USA) – 2013 MISTI program Ben Gurion University of the Negev - MIT
Robert Haas (Germany) – 2014 YSEP-BMBF Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Technische Universität Dresden
Varada Menon (India) – 2014 Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Ari Feldman (USA) – 2015 Overseas Student Program Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Indiana University
Nissi Grace Katuri (India) - 2016 Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Clare Singer (USA) - 2016 Ben Gurion University of the Negev - University of Chicago - Argonne National Laboratory Collaborative Program on Molecular Engineering of Water Resources
Sanjayani Ramanan (India) Nov2016-April2017 Ben Gurion University of the Negev
PhD level Nitzan Streimer Kandiyote Yaeli Oren Franklin Sargunaraj
Post Doctoral level Dr. Abhishek Gupta Dr. Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan Dr. Amit Thakur Dr. Swatantra P. Singh Dr. Mohanraj Gunasekaran Dr. Shanthana Lakshmi Dr. Matan Brami Dr. Jan Dittrich Dr. Immanuel Vincent