HIGH-FIELD DNP / EPR LABORATORY
Group Members
Professor Ilia Kaminker
Principal Investigator
Dr. Kaminker Joined the School of Chemistry and established the High-Field DNP / EPR laboratory in 2018 after returning from a four-year postdoctoral training in the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Building Ornstein, room 421
Dr. Sudipta Khamrui
Postdoctoral fellow
Sudipta is developing the methodology for investigation of the electron spin dynamics in magic angle spinning (MAS) DNP experiments. For this, he develops the methodology for high-field, pulsed MAS-EPR experiments.
Building Ornstein, room 414
Orit Nir-Arad
PhD student
Orit works on developing new experimental approaches for EPR and DNP at 14 T. The main goal of her PhD project is to investigate the role electron spin dynamics play in diamond DNP.
Orit is also responsible for teaching the EPR experiment in the advanced physical chemistry laboratory course.
Orit is a recipient of the very prestigious Ariane de Rothschild Women's Doctoral Program PhD fellowship
Building Ornstein, room 414
Amit Israelstam
PhD student
Amit is working on the development of 200 and 400 GHz Photon Band Gap (PBGR) resonators for high sensitivity EPR and DNP experiments at high magnetic fields.
Previously Amit completed her Master degree in our group.
She was a recipient of ADAMA Center for Novel Delivery Systems in Crop Protection MSc Scholarship.
Building Ornstein, room 414
Dr. Alexander Fialkov
Associate Researcher
Alex works on the mechanical design of hardware for low-temperature MAS-EPR and MAS-DNP experiments.
Building Ornstein, room 108
Dr. Nurit Manukovsky
Staff scientist
Nurit works on the theoretical analysis of high-field DNP and EPR experiments.
Building Ornstein, room 414
Ayala Hecht
MSc student
Ayala is working on High field EPR and DNP spectroscopies of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center defects in diamonds and high magnetic fields.
Building Ornstein, room 414
Mais Daksi
Undergraduate student
Mais works on the development of materials and methodology for producing low-temperature variable capacitors. These capacitors will be crucial for enabling efficient DNP experiments at <100 K.
Building Ornstein, room 414
Noa Israel
MSc student
Noa works on enabling electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) experiments at 7 T (200 GHz).
Building Ornstein, room 414
Shilah Yavin
Undergraduate student
Shilah explores the performance of new radicals in 1H Dynamic Nuclear Polarization experiments.
Building Ornstein, room 414
Fomer Group Members
Eyal Laster
MSc student
Eyal works on high-field EPR and DNP of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds.
David Shlomi
Laboratory Technician
David is a radiofrequency technician in our laboratory. He works on developing cryogenic multinuclear radiofrequency circuits for DNP probeheads.
Dr. Daphna Shimon
postdoctoral fellow.
Daphna has joined the lab after completing two postdoctoral fellowships in the United states. She brings extensive expertise in DNP and solid-state NMR. Daphna works on solid-state NMR of archaeological pottery samples and DNP of "difficult" nuclei.
Sapir Shaya
Laboratory technician
Sapir joined the High-Field DNP / EPR laboratory after completing her contract service in the IDF signal corps. She brings knowledge and experience in practical electronics and is responsible for testing and assembly of the various equipment in the laboratory.
Roman Kumarbaev
NMR technician
Roman is an electrical engineer working in the School of Chemistry. He is responsible for maintenance and upgrades of the NMR instruments.
Prof. Arnold Raitsimring
Visiting scientist
Arnold Raitsimring is Prof. Emeritus and former head of the pulsed EPR facility at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is an expert on everything related to EPR. He works on the design of novel resonators for EPR and DNP experiments at 200 and 400 GHz.
Former Undergraduate Students
Yuval Tamir
Undergraduate student in the Material Science and Chemistry program
Yuval worked on developing high-frequency resonators for EPR and DNP experiments.
Timofey Omelchenko
Undergraduate research assistant
TImofey works of design and testing of photon band gap (PBG) resonators for 200 GHz DNP and EPR experiments
Matan Nahamiev
Undergraduate student, electrical engineering
Project: Development of radio frequency circuits for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization probe-head.
Matan together with Sharon did their graduate project in electrical engineering in the High-Field DNP / EPR laboratory.
Sharon Rabinoviz
Undergraduate student, electrical engineering
Project: Development of radio frequency circuits for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization probe-head.
Sharon together with Matan did their graduate project in electrical engineering in the High-Field DNP / EPR laboratory.
Tomer Amit
Third year undergraduate student in the Chemistry-Research Program for Outstanding Students.
Tomer is a 2019 Ratner Center Scholar working on the design and construction of the high-frequency transmitter and receiver units for DNP spectrometer.