Dor Amram

Dor Amram
dor.amram.da@gmail.com

Academic degrees:

Ph.D. (direct-track) in Materials Science and Engineering

  • Date: 2010 – 2015
  • Institute: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel.
  • Dissertation title: “Morphology and Microstructure Evolution in Thin Au-Fe Bilayers on Sapphire”.

M.Sc. (as part of the requirements towards a direct-track Ph.D.)

  • Date: 2010 – 2012
  • Institute: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel.

B.Sc. Materials Engineering (cum laude).

  • Date: 2005 – 2010
  • Institute: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel.

B.Sc. Chemistry (cum laude).

  • Date: 2005 – 2010
  • Institute: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel.

I performed my direct-track Ph.D. research in Prof. Eugen Rabkin’s “Solid-State Thermodynamics” group, which involved studying thin Au/Fe films on a sapphire substrate. The morphology and microstructure of these films were studied in detail as a function of annealing time: the as-deposited films; the dewetting process which occurs at elevated temperatures; the phase transformations in the resulting micro- and nanoparticles.

Based on these studies, we were able to obtain the desired Core(Fe)-Shell(Au) nanoparticle morphology, demonstrated that these particles can be functionalized, explored their magnetic properties, and were able to remove them from the substrate.

Currently I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the group, continuing research on segregation and interface diffusion in the Fe/Au, Ni/Au and Ni/Pd systems, as well as studying the capillary-driven growth of metallic nanowires. In November 2015 I will become a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Prof. Christopher Schuh.

In my free time I enjoy playing classical piano repertoire, cooking, traveling, and am an avid fan of roller coasters.

Honors and awards (international):

  • May 2015- Best poster award – 8th High Temperature Capillarity (HTC) conference: Bad Herrenalb (Germany).
  • 2015: Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2015/2016.
  • 2015: MIT-Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2015/2016
  • 2014:  Acta Materialia Student Award – best student papers in 2013.
  • July 2011: Best poster award – 8th Diffusion in Materials (DIMAT) conference: Dijon (France).
  • Amram D., Rabkin E. “Core(Fe)-shell(Au) nanoparticles obtained from thin Fe/Au bilayers employing surface segregation”, ACS Nano 8, 10687-10693 (2014).
  • Amram D., Klinger L., Gazit N., Gluska H., Rabkin E. “Grain boundary grooving in thin films revisited: the role of interface diffusion”, Acta Materialia 69, 386-396 (2014).
  • Amram D., Klinger L., Rabkin E. “Phase transformations in Au(Fe) nano- and microparticles obtained by solid state dewetting of thin Au-Fe bilayer films”, Acta Materialia 61, 5130-5143 (2013).
  • Amram D., Klinger L., Rabkin E. “Anisotropic hole growth during solid-state dewetting of single-crystal Au-Fe thin films”, Acta Materialia 60, 3047-3056 (2012).