Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand, The Bernard L. Schwartz chair for nano scale information technologies, Department of Electrical Engineering - Physical electronics and the department of Material science and technology, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University. He is also an endowed chair professor at the Thapar institute for engineering and technology, Patiala, India, and international director of the TAU/TIET Food Security center of excellence director.
D.Sc. EE 1983, M.Sc. EE 1980, and B.Sc. EE (Summa-cum Laude) 1978, all in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 1983-post-doctorate at U.C. Berkeley, CA, USA. 1987- 1989 senior lecturer, the Technion, Israel. 1989-1996 assistant professor Cornell university, Ithaca NY, USA, 1997-2001 Associate professor and since 2001 a full professor at the school of electrical engineering, Physical Electronics department, Tel-Aviv University.
Yosi has been also a Visiting professor, at CNR-IMM, Rome, Italy, Visiting Professor, at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and a distinguished international chair professor, at Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, and the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, The Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
He served in a few academic positions including being the Academic Director, Micro Technologies Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv university (2000 –2001), the director of Tel-Aviv University research institute for Nano-Science and nano-technologies (2001–2004), Head of the Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Engineering (2007- 2011), the Vice-dean of the faculty of engineering for business & Industrial relations. He was on the university board of governors (2008-2012), university patent committee (2006-2010), head of the industrial affiliation program, Faculty of Engineering (2012), and head of the international school or EE (2020-2021), and a member of the board of directors of "RAMOT" by Tel Aviv University (2008-2013). He was (2013-2018) a member of the MAGNET committee promoting basic and generic technologies in Israel, the innovation authority, Ministry of Trade and Industry. 2021-2022 he was a member of the Bio convergence sub-committee of the Israel National Infrastructure Committee (TELEM).
Prof. Shacham-Diamand also served as a consultant to numerous manufacturing companies such as Zoran Inc. (1983-1986), Intel Inc. Applied Materials Inc., Nova Instruments Inc., and numerous investments and holding companies in Israel and abroad. Prof. Shacham-Diamand served on the board of directors of PCB Ltd. (2001-2003), "RAMOT" by Tel Aviv University (2008-2013), TAUVentures Inc. (2018-Now) investment, CAMTEK Inc. (2018-Now) and currently serves on the advisory board of CartaSense Ltd. and as the head of the Scientific Committee of the Israeli “BIOCHIP” consortium funded by the Innovation Authority.
He published 280 journal papers, >400 conference papers in registered proceedings, 10 chapters in books, 30 patents, and edited two conference proceedings books, and two books.
His research is in Micro and Nanoelectronics science and technology; specifically:
1. VLSI interconnect technology: thin-film [processes for metallization for ULSI circuits and flexible electronics, electroless plating of metals and alloys,
2. Biochips and functional biosensors; synthetic biology for functional biosensors using optical and electrochemical sensing; integrated bio-sensors; On-chip bio-fluorescence and bioluminescence detection; integrated electrochemical sensing.
