Principal investigator

Assoc. Prof. Yaniv Edery

Heads the PMV lab. A physicist who hand-waves partial explanations, but with excellent students who prove him wrong. Loves his family, science, experiments, coffee, and beer (see AI illustration done by a former student for details). Did a B.Sc. in physics and oceanography (Hebrew University), an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Hydrology (Weizmann Institute), and a postdoctorate in the soft matter physics lab at Harvard University.

yanivedery@technion.ac.il
Rabin Building, Room 617

Lab manager

Dr. Ludmila Abezgauz

Keeps the experiments running.

Sherman Building, Room 103

Postdoctoral researcher · Technion

Satyaki Kundu

Studies how porous rock remembers its loading history, using strain-field correlations to detect irreversible deformation. Ph.D. in physics on criticality and metastability near first-order phase transitions (IISER Kolkata).

Ph.D. student

Evgeny Shavelzon

Studies reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media by numerical simulations. M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Tel Aviv University) and B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering (Technion), specializing in computational mechanics. Outside science, he plays, composes and performs music.

Ph.D. student

Debanik Bhattacharjee

Works on microbial biophysics in multiphase pore networks, combining simulation with experiments. M.Sc. (University of Alberta) and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (West Bengal University of Technology).

M.Sc. student

Dvir Dimi

B.Sc. in Materials Engineering and Physics (Technion). Previously managed the Technion BizTec entrepreneurship accelerator.

M.Sc. student · Energy Engineering

Moisés Duek Kalach

Studies fluid displacement in porous media and what controls underground hydrogen storage, using microfluidic models with varied pore structure and wettability.

M.Sc. student

Tsur Sofer

Models how sponges take up dissolved organic matter, with a mass-transfer model built on sponge morphometry. Co-advised by Guy Ramon and Gitai Yahel.

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Niloy De

Past M.Sc. students

Arnold Bachrach: deformation of porous medium by pressurized flow

Tongzhou Gan: flow, mixing and reaction of miscible phases, relevant to CO₂ sequestration

Neta Frank: transport, buoyancy and adsorption/desorption of fertilizer in soil

Martin Stolar: hydraulic fracture in porous media induced by pore pressure rise

Yahel Eliyahu-Yakir: pore-scale mechanisms of miscible phase flow

Past undergraduate students

Nitzan Harel

Tomer Sapar (COMSOL modeling of pH migration)

Adi Biran

Alex Kantorowitz (invasion percolation in microfluidic devices)

Avioz Dagan

Yehonatan Bitran

Tal Ballas

Kisaburo Kawashima

Shaimaa Sulieman

Together

Science over lunch.

The best ideas in the lab tend to show up at the table. New students are welcome to pull up a chair.