2017-2022: M.Sc. + Ph.D. (direct track) in materials science and engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Supervisor: Prof. Boaz Pokroy. Thesis title: Tuning the Physical Properties of Synthetic Crystals using Intracrystalline Incorporation of Organic Molecules
2013-2017: B.Sc. in materials science and engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Graduation cum laude.
2013-2017: B.Sc. in chemistry, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Graduation cum laude.
Employment
2025 – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
2023-2025: Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Hosts: Prof. Thomas D. Bennett, Prof. Siân E. Dutton, and Prof. Rachel C. Evans.
2022-2023: Postdoctoral fellowship, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Host: Prof. Boaz Pokroy.
2015-2017: R&D student position, RAFAEL – Advanced Defence Systems.
Awards and Honours
2023: Blavatnik Postdoctoral Cambridge Fellowship. Awarded by the Blavatnik Family Foundation via the British Council in Israel.
2023: Exceptional Promise (Global Talent) recognition by The Royal Society, UK.
2021: Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) scholarship for excellence in nanoscience and technology.
2021: Scholarship for research in the energy field, awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Energy.
2021: KLA prize for excellence in research.
2021: Jacobs Award for excellent publication.
2019-2022: Excellence in formal teaching at Technion.
Selected Conferences
Thermally Stable Binary Two-Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Glasses. 17th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC17), Edinburgh, UK, 07.2025; 19th European Conference on Solid State Chemistry (ECSSC 2025), Malaga, Spain, 09.2025; EuroMOF2025, Heraklion, Greece, 09.2025.
Melt Alloying of Two-Dimensional Hybrid Perovskites: Composition-Dependence of Thermal and Optical Properties. Israeli Materials Engineering Conference. Israeli Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC20), Jerusalem, Israel, 02.2025; 8th International Conference on Hybrid and Nanomaterials. Montpellier, France, 03.2025; 15th International Conference on Solid State Chemistry, Ústí nad Labem, Czechia, 09.2024.
Bioinspired Molecular Bridging in a Hybrid Perovskite Leads to Enhanced Stability and Tunable Properties. MRS Fall Meeting 2020. Boston, MA, USA (online), 11.2020; 5th International Bio-inspiration N.I.C.E Conference. Nice, France (online), 10.2020.
Bio-inspired Band Gap Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite MAPbBr3. 11th European NESY Winter School & Symposium on Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation. Altausse, Austria, 3.2019.
Lang, A., Kurashvili, M., Sklar, J., Polishchuk, I., Fada'os, A., Sessa, I., Buyan-Arivjikh, A., Katsman, A., Feldmann, J., Pokroy, B., Exploring Lysine Incorporation as a Strategy to Mitigate Post-Synthetic Halide Exchange in Lead-Halide Hybrid Perovskites. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c22194
Lang A., Chen, C., Ye, C., McHugh, L. N., Chua, X. W., Stranks, S. D., Dutton, S. E., Bennett, T. D., Melt Alloying of Two-Dimensional Hybrid Perovskites: Composition-Dependence of Thermal and Optical Properties. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 49, 33945–33955 (2024). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.4c12697
Lang A., Polishchuk, I., Katsman, A., Pokroy, B., Effect of Nucleotides on the Phase and Crystal Structure of Synthetic Calcium Carbonate. Cryst. Gro. Des. 23, 5117–5125 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00367
Lang A., Polishchuk, I., Confalonieri, G., Dejoie, C., Maniv, A., Potashnikov, D., Caspi, E. N., Pokroy B., Tuning the Magnetization of Manganese (II) Carbonate by Intracrystalline Amino Acids. Mater. 2201652 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202201652
Lang A., Brif, A., Polishchuk, I., Fitch, A. N., Feldmann, J., Pokroy, B., Excessive Increase in the Optical Band Gap of Near Infra-Red Semiconductor Lead (II) Sulfide via the Incorporation of Amino Acids. Opt. Mater. 2200203 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202200203
Lang, A., Mijowska, S., Polishchuk, I., Fermani, S., Falini, G., Katsman, A., Marin, F., Pokroy, B., Acidic Monosaccharides become Incorporated into Calcite Single Crystals. – A Eur. J. 26, 16860–16868 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003344
Lang A., Polishchuk, I., Seknazi, E., Feldmann, J., Katsman, A., Pokroy, B., Bioinspired Molecular Bridging in a Hybrid Perovskite Leads to Enhanced Stability and Tunable Properties. Funct. Mater. 2005136 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202005136
