Israel Gabay was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research entitled "Theoretical and experimental investigation of the coupling of hydromechanical and electrophysiological processes in mediating long-distance signals in crops." In his research, Israel aims to enhance our understanding of the inner communication system in plants and to leverage this understanding to guide crop improvement and plant bioengineering.
Israel completed his bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in mechanical engineering at the Technion and pursued a Ph.D. in the same faculty under the supervision of Professor Moran Bercovici and Professor Amir Gat. During his graduate studies, Israel studied the dynamics of liquid films. His findings include fundamental and technological implications, ranging from the creation of smooth microstructures to the development of giant space telescopes made of liquid. Israel has received several awards for his research and teaching activities and is an alumnus of two prestigious Ph.D. fellowships, ISEF and Azrieli.
Israel’s publications include:
- Gabay I., Bacheva V., Illsar D., Bercovici M., Ramos A., and Gat A., "The non-self-adjoint thin film problem: dynamics of fixed-volume pinned films" Journal of fluid mechanics (2023).
- Gabay I., Paratore F., Boyko E., Ramos A., Gat A., and Bercovici M., "Shaping liquid films by dielectrophoresis" Flow 1 (2021).
- Luria O., Elgarisi M., Frumkin V., Razin A., Ericson J., Gommed K., Widerker D., Gabay I., Belikov R., Bookbinder J., Balaban E., Bercovici M., “Fluidic Shaping and in-situ Measurement of Liquid Lenses in Microgravity”, npj microgravity (2023).
