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Meet The Team

Prof. Noam Eliaz

Prof. Noam Eliaz serves as the 11th Dean of The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University (TAU), a position he has held since July 2022. He is a Full Professor, Director of the Biomaterials and Corrosion Laboratory, and the founder of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMS&E) at TAU. He is also the founding director of AMC — TAU's Additive Manufacturing Center.

In addition to his roles at TAU, Professor Eliaz is an Adjunct Professor at V ellore Institute of Technology (VIT), an endowed chair professor and the founding director of TIET/TAU Center of Excellence on Advanced Manufacturing at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET). He has also been honored with the title Honorary Professor by Transylvania University of Braşov in Romania.

Prof. Maxim Sokol

Prof. Maxim Sokol is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University's Department of Materials Engineering and Science, where he leads the Advanced Ceramics Laboratory. He received his B.Sc, M.Sc, and Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

After completing his Ph.D., Prof. Sokol worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. During his time at Drexel, Prof. Sokol worked on a variety of MAX and MXene-related projects in the Layered Solids Laboratory. He has received several prestigious grants and prizes, including the DIP German-Israeli Project Cooperation Research Grant, the ISF Individual Research Grant, and the Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowship. Prof. Sokol has published over 50 papers and holds several patents.

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