Materials Science & Engineering

Biography

Prof. Hanna Dodiuk received her PhD with honors in 1977 in Chemistry from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She joined the Israeli Armament Development Authority (ADA) in 1979. Since September 1991 until June 1997 she held the position of Director of Materials and Processes Department in ADA. She spent sabbaticals as Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of New York, USA, in HPM Company in Los Angeles/USA, in Bayer AG, Leverkusen/Germany, in New-Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA, and at UMASS Lowell, Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing,USA. She was the president of the Israeli Polymer & Plastics Society during 1998-2000 and was nominated an honorary fellow in 2013. She serves as a representative and expert evaluator on the European Community’s R&D Grants within Frameworks 4-7. In 1997 she joined Shenkar College of Engineering and Design where she was appointed the head of Plastics Engineering and Polymers Department in 2006. Prof. Dodiuk specializes in the areas of adhesion science and adhesives technology, characterization and formulation of polymer adhesives, special coatings, surface and interfaces analysis, nanotechnology and aging of polymeric materials. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the "Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology" and "Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives " and is author or co-author of 130 scientific publications, 15 patents , editor of 2 books and has delivered numerous (160) lectures in conferences.

Research Interest

Adhesion and adhesives science and technology, characterization and formulation of polymer adhesives, polymer composites, dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers, surface and interfaces analysis, nanotechnology and aging of polymeric material