Shlomo Margel (; born 9 October 1945) is a Professor of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University specializing in polymers, biopolymers, functional thin films, encapsulation, surface chemistry, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology and agro-nanotechnology.Message from the Editors, "Agro-nanotechnology in the Volcani Center", Volcani Voice, Vol.4, September 2017
Early life Shlomo MargelProf. Margel, Bar-Ilan University Research Authority was born in 1945 in Israel during the Mandate era into a seven-generation Jerusalemite family. The Margel family descended from the Loewy (),Our forefathers at the gates of Jerusalem - from the disciples of the Vilna Ga'on following his Torah, the genealogy of the Levine family, Jerusalem, 2011. In Hebrew: אבותינו בשערי ירושלים - מתלמידי הגר"א בעקבות תורתו, ירושלים, ה'תשע"חספר היחס למשפחת לווין - כתב ר' יצחק דויד אשר לעווין, דפוס האחים רוחלר, ירושלים, ה'תרפ"ט Menachem Mendel () and Rivlin families. Their family trees merged several generations agoאלעזר הורביץ, מוסד היסוד תולדות ראשית היישוב בירושלים על ידי תלמידי הגר"א and they were all students of the Vilna Gaon (HaGra).a.k.a. Perushim (Hebrew: עליית תלמידי הגר"א), disciples of the Vilna Gaon who left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to settle in the Land of Israel.
Academic career He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, followed by three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 1988 he joined the Bar-Ilan Department of ChemistryProf. Margel's Lab - Chemistry Department, Bar-Ilan University and has risen through the ranks to full professor in 1994. Margel was a visiting scientist in DuPont Central Research, Wilmington, Delaware, in the University of Ulm, Germany, in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Soldiers' Nanotechnologies.The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Margel chaired the Bar-Ilan Chemistry Department (1999-2001),Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University served as the dean of the Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences (2002-2003)Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences and was the Bar-Ilan dean of students (2011-2014).Bar-Ilan, Dean of Students website He was the head of the National Committee for Chemistry in High School Education (2000-2003)The Israeli National Committee for Chemistry in High School Education and the president of the Israel Chemical Society (2006-2009).Israel Chemical Society (ICS) The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities designated him to be the Israeli chairman of the National Committee of Chemistry towards IUPAC during 2010-2013. In addition, during 2014-2017 he served as the president and head of the Washington College for Education, Yavne.Givat Washington College of Education In 2016, Prof. Margel was chosen to lead the establishment of a new agro-nanotechnology center in the Volcani Institute for Agriculture, Beit Dagan.Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani CenterVolcani Voice, Vol.4, September 2017
Scientific interests and publications Margel earlier interests included electrochemistry of vinylic monomer and polymers, polyaldehyde microspheres and self-assembly monolayers. His current research focuses on functional polymeric nano/micro-particles for medical and industrial applications, surface modification, and functional thin coatings (self-cleaning, anti-biofouling, UV absorbers, anti-foggingS. Margel, M, Kolitz Domb, et.al. "Proteinoid compounds, process of preparing same and uses thereof". US patent application 0042827 (2017). and superhydrophobic coatingsS. Margel, Sharon Bretler, Sarit Cohen and Naftali Kanovsky. "In-situ thin coating of silica particles onto plastic films and their applications" US Provisional Patent Application No. 62/645,839 (2018).). Prof. Margel is a world pioneer and gained international reputation in the area of nanotechnology, particularly in the design of functional nano- and micrometer-sized particles of very narrow size distribution for medical and industrial applications. Many of his publications were collected to a book titled "Recent advances in polymers & nanotechnology".
During his career, Prof. Margel supervised over 100 students. He has over 300 peer-reviewed articles in print, which were cited nearly 8,100 times. Margel has published many book chapters on various aspects of nanoparticles and functional thin coatings, won about 75 national and international research grants and has about 40 patents and patent applications.Shlomo Margel, Google ScholarProf. Shlomo Margel's website, Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences
Among his previous awards were the Dr. Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship for Scientific Research, established by the Myron A. Bantrell Trust (1976-1978); Shmuel Yaroslavsky Memorial Prize for Study on the Development of Microspheres for Medical Applications, awarded by the Scientific Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1984); M. Landau Grant Foundation for Achievement in the Area of Polymers, awarded by Mifal HaPayis (1989); Taubenblat Prize for studies on Bioactive Wound Dressing & Particles (2003); The Elias, Genevieve and Georgianna Atol Charitable Trust Fellow in Nanomedicine (2003) and the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS)The Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Excellency Award for Research (2014).
Personal life Shlomo Margel is married to Hannah Margel, a Ph.D. in Science Teaching from the Weizmann Institute of Science. They live in Rehovot and have four children and seven grandchildren. His sister is former MK Gila Finkelstein.
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