![Group photo 2017](/files/2020/10/Group_2017-1024x678.jpg)
This is our group in the year 2017. Most people here have graduated. From left to right: Hagit Barda, me, Leonid Klinger, Amit Sharma, Nimrod Gazit, Ehud Almog, Anna Kosinova. Haifa Bay is in the background.
![Amit Sharma](/files/2020/10/Amit-169x300.jpg)
Dr. Amit Sharma – currently a researcher at the EMPA Thun, Switzerland
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Rotem Strassberg
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Dr. Nimrod Gazit
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Dr. Oleg Kovalenko
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Orit Even-Zur
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Dr. Dor Amram
![Rimma Lapovok](/files/2020/09/RimmaL-191x300.jpg)
Prof. Rimma Lapovok from Deakin University, Australia. Rimma has spent two fruitful years in our group in the framework of prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship.
The results of Rimma’s work are summarized in two open-access publications:
R. Lapovok, M. Dubrovsky, A. Kosinova, G. Raab, Effect of Severe Plastic Deformation on the Conductivity and Strength of Copper-Clad Aluminium Conductors, Metals, Special Issue Severe Plastic Deformation and Thermomechanical Processing: Nanostructuring and Properties, 9:9 (2019), article No: 960
R. Lapovok, V.V. Popov Jr., Y. Qi, A. Kosinova, A. Berner, C. Xu, E. Rabkin, R. Kulagin, J. Ivanisenko, B. Baretzky, O.V. Prokof’eva, A.N. Sapronov, D.V. Prilepo, Y. Beygelzimer, Architectured Hybrid conductors: Aluminium with embedded copper helix, Materials & Design, vol. 187 (2020), article No. 108398 (1-17)
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Dr. Anna Kosinova
![Yuanshen Qi](/files/2020/08/Yuanshen-Profile-picture-for-website-300x240.jpg)
Dr. Yuanshen Qi
Dr. Qi is currently an Assistant Professor at the Guangdong-Technion Israel Institute of Technology
![Michael](/files/2020/08/Beregovsky_pic-300x180.jpg)
Dr. Michael Beregovsky