Doron Aurbach
Doron Aurbach is an Israeli electrochemist, materials and surface scientist.
Biography
Doron Aurbach was born in 1952 in Israel to parents who survived the Holocaust and fought the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, grew up in Ramat Gan and studied in Blich High School. He served in Sayeret Golani reconnaissance unit, a.k.a. 631st Reconnaissance Battalion, and fought west to the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War. Later he returned to Golani Brigade as a deputy commander of a combat support company, and was discharged from reserve duty with a rank of a Major, at the age of 46, as a patrol officer in the Armored Corps.He is married to Sara, an educational counselor by training who writes children's books. They live in Bnei Brak and have seven children and dozens of grandchildren.
Academic career
He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD from the Chemistry Department at Bar-Ilan University. In parallel to his PhD degree, he completed a full degree in chemical engineering from the Technion.He was a postdoctoral fellow at Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio, led by Professor Ernest B. Yeager.
In 1985 he joined the Chemistry Department at Bar-Ilan University and founded the electrochemistry group. Since October 1996 he is a full professor in the Chemistry Department and a Senate member at BIU. Between 2001 and 2005 he chaired the Chemistry Department and between 2010 and 2016 he chaired the Israel Labs Accreditation Authority. Aurbach is the Director of the Energy and Sustainable Center of Bar-Ilan University which he founded in 2021. Aurbach's group belongs to a network of excellence in the field of advanced materials for power sources, founded and supported by BASF. His group benefits from a long-term collaboration with General Motors, working together on advanced power sources for electro-mobility. Aurbach manages a budget of more than 56 million NIS as a founder and a leader of the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion, comprising 26 research groups from seven Israeli institutions supported by the Israel Council for Higher Education and the Prime-Minister's office. Aurbach is the head of the newly established center for Energy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University.
Aurbach is a member of the small management team called IMLB LLC Ltd of the world organization of the advanced Li batteries community. Aurbach belongs to the international scientific board of the French Energy Network RS2E and to the international scientific board of Daegu Institute of Technology in South Korea.
He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, Materials Research Society, the International Society of Electrochemistry, and a member in the European Academy of Science. Aurbach serves as an Editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. During 2007 and 2015 he served also as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Solid-State Electrochemistry.
Among his students are Prof. Arie Zaban, President of Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Yair Ein-Eli, Dean of the faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion, and a number of other senior academic faculty members.