Prof. Noam Eliaz

Professor Noam Eliaz holds an appointment of Associate Professor with tenure at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Israel, as well as an appointment of Research Affiliate at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at M.I.T.
After receiving his B.Sc. in Materials Engineering magna cum laude from Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in 1991, he worked for three years in the Department of Materials and Failure Analysis at the Israel Air Force (IAF). His professional activities at the IAF included failure analysis of aeronautical components; consultation services for materials and processes selection; quality assurance in laboratories (ISO 9000); inspection of civilian manufacturing facilities with regard to standards of materials and processes; and quality control of raw materials and aeronautical components.
In 1995 he returned to BGU to pursue, simultaneously, a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (Direct Program; received summa cum laude in 1999) and an M.B.A. (received magna cum laude in 1998). His Ph.D. work was focused on the study of hydrogen interaction with amorphous and quasicrystalline alloys. For that work, he was awarded the Israel Ministry of Science's Eshkol Scholarship for Scientific Infrastructures, as well as with BGU's Provost Prize.
After completing his doctorate, Dr. Eliaz became the first ever materials scientist to receive, simultaneously, a Fulbright postdoctoral award and a Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship. He then worked for two years at the H.H. Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory at M.I.T. His work at M.I.T. included the study of underfilm corrosion of polymer-coated cobalt; the study of corrosion in supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) systems for destruction of hazardous waste; and processing and characterization of advanced Ti-based materials for customized prostheses made by three-dimensional printing (3DP™).
In August 2001, Dr. Eliaz joined the Senior Academic Staff of TAU and founded The Biomaterials and Corrosion Laboratory. At TAU, he has already won a Dan David Scholarship.
Prof. Eliaz is currently a member of ECS, ISE and NACE International. He has been a member of many national and international committees and associations, including Chief Editor of the journal Corrosion Reviews (jointly with Prof. Ron Latanision), Chairman of the Israel Section of NACE International, Chairman of Central Committee 300 for Chemistry Standards at the Standards Institution of Israel (SII), Chairman of the 14th Israel Materials Engineering Conference, and the first Head of the Materials and Nanotechnologies Program at TAU. To-date, he has contributed more than 220 journal, book and conference publications, including 28 invited talks, 4 book chapters, and served as co-Guest-Editor of a special issue on Biomaterials Corrosion. He is currently editing for Springer a double volume of Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry on Applications of Electrochemistry and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine, as well as a book on Degradation of Implant Materials. His publications are widely cited, and he has garnered numerous accolades, including the T.P. Hoar Award for the best paper published in Corrosion Science during 2001, and the prestigious 2010 Herbert H. Uhlig Award granted by NACE International in recognition of outstanding effectiveness in postsecondary corrosion education. Professor Eliaz is the first Israeli to receive this award (or any other NACE International award).