Prof. Dario Dekel, Technion
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from UTN (Argentina), M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. and MBA from Technion I.I.T. (Israel). In 1998 he joined Rafael Ltd., where he led 50 researchers and engineers in the area of high-temperature batteries. In 2007 Prof. Dekel co-found CellEra, where as Vice President for RD&E he led 15 researchers to develop the Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell technology. In 2015 Prof. Dekel joined the Technion, where he currently heads the TEEM Lab (Technion Electrochemical Energy based on Membranes), leading the largest worldwide research group entirely focused on AEMFCs. Prof. Dekel holds more than 70 patents and papers on battery and fuel cell technologies. At Technion, he currently holds about $2M government and company research grants from Europe, USA, and Israel.
Links:
The Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering
The Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP)
Israel National Research Center for Electrochemiacal Propulsion (INREP)