Research Interests:

• Low temperature plasma and gas discharges
• Plasma propulsion
• Plasma processing and synthesis of nanomaterials
• Plasma-surface interactions and plasma diagnostics
• Nanolab : experimental and theoretical studies of plasma-material interactions at nanoscale levels, and nano dusty plasmas with applications to synthesis and processing of nanomaterials

Awards & Honors

• 1986, Inventor of USSR, All-Union Society of Inventors, Russia
• 1991-1992, Bet Dagan Scholarships for Academic Achievements, Technion, Israel
• 2009, Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• 2010, Fellow, American Physical Society

Teaching

• AST 555 Fusion Plasmas and Plasma Diagnostics