Hossam Haick

Hossam Haick is an Arab-Israeli scientist and engineer, and the current dean of undergraduate studies at the Israel Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer known for inventing the Nano Artificial Nose for the detection of disease from exhaled breath, for which he was highlighted as MIT's Innovators under 35; and which is widely used for sniffing out disease's biomarkers in labs and industries. He has many contributions in multidisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Nanosensors, Volatile Biomarkers, and Molecular Electronics.

Personal life

Haick was born into an Arab Christian family in Nazareth. He graduated from the St. Joseph Seminary & High School at Nazareth.

Haick is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at the Technion, and an expert in nanotechnology and non-invasive disease diagnosis. He was born in Nazareth. In 1998, he received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, and in 2002, he earned his Ph.D. in a direct-track program from the Technion. He spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology-Caltech, after spending two years at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
He went back to the Technion and became an assistant professor in 2006. He is now a full-academic professor in the department of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, and the director of the Laboratory of Nanomaterials-based Devices at the Technion.