Michal Lahav

Michal Lahav earned her BSc and PhD in Chemistry in 2001 under the mentorship of Professor Itamar Willner at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then completed postdoctoral research with Professor Israel Rubinstein at the Weizmann Institute of Science before pursuing a second postdoc at Harvard University, studying nano-chemistry with Professor George M. Whitesides. After three years in the United States, she returned to Israel, where she was appointed Scientific Advisor at the Weizmann Institute and later became an Associate Staff Scientist in the Department of Organic Chemistry in 2011. Currently, she is a Senior Staff Scientist working with Professor Milko van der Boom in the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the self-assembly of metallo-organic materials for energy storage and electrochromics, with several products now in the patenting process. Her work advances the fundamental understanding of the formation and electronic properties of metal-supramolecular architectures. Among her awards and honors are the Dr. Maxine Singer Prize for Outstanding Staff Scientists, the Baruch Zinger Award for Academic Excellence, the IVS Excellence Award for Surface Science Expertise, and the Schmidt Prize for an outstanding PhD thesis.