Group

I am always interested in hearing from curious and motivated students and postdoctoral researchers with strong analytical and computational backgrounds who are interested in wave physics and engineering. Current research directions include electromagnetics and acoustics, complex and time-varying media, nonlinear and active wave systems, metamaterials, inverse design, and fundamental performance bounds.

Current Group Members

PhD Students

• Ohad Silbiger
  Inverse scattering and design of non-LTI systems.
  PhD student since July 2021.
• Rotem Garnek
  Inverse design of functional wave systems using DDA and optimization methods.
  Direct-track MSc-to-PhD student since October 2022.
• Tomer Eini
  Acoustic propagation in shallow-water scenarios.
  PhD student since September 2025.

MSc Students

• Ishay Brill
  Efficient third- and fifth-harmonic radiation using a passive nonlinear patch antenna.
  MSc student since October 2022.
• Shay Avig
  MSc student since January 2023.
• Yoav Kriman
  MSc student since September 2025.
• Omer Sade
  MSc student since March 2026.

Undergraduate Research

• Mark Ruzal
  Acoustic propagation in laminar anisotropic media.

Alumni

PhD Graduates

• Dr. Michael Kreitzer (PhD, 2024)
  Homogenization and excitation of time-modulated metamaterials.
• Dr. Chen Firestein (PhD, 2024)
  Wave absorbers, fundamental bounds, and approaches for going beyond conventional limits.
  Co-supervised with Dr. Amir Shlivinski, Ben-Gurion University.

MSc Graduates

• Leonid Goltcman (MSc, 2018)
  Electromechanical scattering.
• Ohad Silbiger (MSc, 2021)
  One-way acoustic guiding in sub-diffraction chains under flow.
  Continued in the group as a PhD student.
• Rotem Garnek (MSc, 2022)
  Inverse design of nonlinear wave networks.
  Continued in the group in the direct PhD track.
• Koffi-Emmanuel Sadzi (MSc, 2024)
  Cavity spintronics and Green-function modeling of magnon-photon interactions in rectangular cavities.
  Currently a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at UC San Diego.

Former Postdoctoral Researchers

• Dr. Eran Falek (2017-2018)
  Propagation in nonlinear resonator lattices, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and chaos.
• Dr. Rujiang Li (2018-2019)
  Topological effects in linear and nonlinear resonator lattices.

Former Undergraduate Researchers

• Eyal Hizi and Itai Kling (2020-2022)
  Electromechanical dynamics of air bubbles in conductive liquids.
• Nadav Levi and Yoav Kriman (2024)
  Experimental exploration of complex acoustic-wave propagation under flow.