OMNI Group » Group Members http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni Biomedical Optical Microscopy, Nanoscopy and Interferometry Research Group Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:43:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Prof. Natan T. Shaked, PhD ECE http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=176 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=176#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:53 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/site/?p=176 .
Principal Investigator
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Natan T. Shaked is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and currently the Chair of the Department. He also holds the Chair (Kathedra) of Advanced Biomedical Optical Microscopy. Till April 2011, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Shaked received his BSc, MSc (Summa Cum Laude), and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel in 2002, 2004 and 2008, respectively. In 2008, Shaked awarded the Bikura Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and performed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Prof. Shaked is the coauthor of more than 100 refereed journal papers and 180 conference papers (including more than 30 plenary, keynote or invited papers), and several book chapters, patents, and an edited book. He is chairing the SPIE Label-Free Imaging and Sensing (LBIS) Conference in SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, and a Fellow in the Optical Society of America (OSA) and a Fellow in the SPIE. In 2015, he received the ERC starter grant.
 

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Office: Room 410, Multi-disciplinary Center
Tel/fax: +972-3-6407100
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]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=176 0 Dr. Mattan Levi, PhD Biology http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6505 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6505#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:09:52 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6505 Visiting Scientist, Embryologist

Dr. Mattan Levi is a Clinical Embryologist and the manager of the IVF Laboratory in Meir Medical Center. Till 2021, he was the manager of the Andrology Laboratory at Herzeliya Medical Center in Israel (one of the largest IVF centers in Israel). Mattan received his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Tel Aviv University. He conducted research at the fields of reproductive and cancer biology, and was the founder and director of oncology research laboratory at Rabin Medical Center. Mattan collaborated with the OMNI group for several years as a consultant in developing a selection criteria of sperm cells imaged by interference phase microscopy as part of the Momentum project  sponsored by Ramot at Tel Aviv University. Since May 2019, he joined the OMNI group as a Visiting Scientist (part time, 20%). 

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Email: mattanlevi@gmail.com 
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=6505 0 Dr. Michael Haifler, MD Urology http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7595 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7595#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:10:19 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7595 .
Visiting Scientist, Medical Doctor
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 Dr. Michael (Miki) Haifler is a Senior Urologic-Oncologist and Surgeon at Sheba Medical Center, where his main clinical interest is treating prostate, bladder and kidney cancers. He holds an MD degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and graduated a six-year residency at the Department of Urology at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Ha’Shomer, Israel.  He was also an MSc student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, Israel . Afterwards, Dr.  Haifler  won the Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship and joined the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, where his main interests focused on genito-urinary surgical oncology. His current research subjects include interferometric applications for urologic oncology tissue diagnosis and prediction modeling. Dr. Haifler has co-authored  of peer-reviewed journal papers and serves as a reviewer and guest editor for several urologic journals. Since July 2021, he joined the OMNI group as a Visiting Scientist (part time, 20%). 

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Email: mikihaifler@gmail.com
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=7595 0 Dr. Itay Barnea, PhD Biology http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=2292 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=2292#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:20:34 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=2292 .
Research Fellow, Cell Biologist
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Dr. Itay Barnea is a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the OMNI Group. He started from January 2013. He did his BSc in the Department of Life Sciences in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, his MSc in the Department of Immunology and Cell Science, and PhD in the Medical School, both in the Tel Aviv University. He dealt with different aspects of cancer: genetic variation, molecular epidemiology, and signal-transduction-based targeted therapy. His current research includes measuring cancer cell metastatic degree using interferometry.

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Email: itay.barnea.1@gmail.com
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=2292 0 Dr. Gili Dardikman-Yoffe, PhD BME http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7686 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7686#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:21:05 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7686 .
Research Fellow, Deep Learning
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Dr. Gili Dardikman-Yoffe is a full-time Research Fellow in the OMNI Group, specializing in deep-learning algorithm development and image analysis, starting from 2021. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 2019, and then did a Postdoc in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in the Weizmann institute of Science. She won several prestigious awards, including the Clore Foundation Fellowship for PhD students, the David and Paulina Trotsky Foundation award, the ISMBE Award for PhD students, and the Faculty Postdoctoral Excellence Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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Email: gilid@mail.tau.ac.il

 
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=7686 0 Dr. Dotan Kamber, PhD Neuroscience http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7782 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7782#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:22:36 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=7782 .
Research Fellow, Cell Microscopy
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Dr. Dotan Kambar is a part-time (20%) Research Fellow in the OMNI Group, specializing in optical microscopy systems, starting from June 2021. Previously, he had nine years of experience as application specialist for advanced life-science microscopy, designing, consulting and realizing custom microscopy setups and other imaging systems. He holds an MA in Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences, an MSc in Brain Sciences, and a PhD in Neuroscience.
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Email: dotank@tauex.tau.ac.il

 

 

]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=7782 0 Simcha Mirsky, MSc BME http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=4919 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=4919#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:31:15 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=4919 .
PhD Student
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Simcha Mirsky is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Simcha received his BSc in Medical Engineering from the Jerusalem College of Technology in 2012. His BSc focuses on electro-optical engineering and its application in medical devices and diagnostics. After receiving his BSc, Simcha completed his army service in the Medical Engineering Branch of the IDF as an officer in the Medical Engineering Development Unit.  He did his MSc in the OMNI group on sperm phase imaging between March 2016-February 2018. His PhD works, started in March 2018, focuses on off-axis hologram multiplexing. 

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Email: simcha.mirsky@gmail.com
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=4919 0 Matan Dudaie, MSc Physics http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6118 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6118#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:32:09 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6118 .
PhD Student
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Matan Dudaie joined OMNI group as a PhD student in March 2018. Matan holds a BSc and an MSc in Physics from Tel Aviv University, with a thesis on simulation of cell mechanical interactions, performed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. After 10 years of experience with RF and wave dispersion, he started his Doctorate studies as a part of the PhaseRaceOnChip Project, collaborating with Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. His research includes developing 3D tomography and profiling of cells through phase microscopy using optical interferometry and dielectrophoretic cell rotation.  

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Email: matan.dudaie@gmail.com
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=6118 0 Mayssam Nassir, MSc Mech Eng http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6960 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6960#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:46:00 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=6960 PhD Student

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Mayssam Nassir is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Mayssam received her BSc in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Tel Aviv University (2011). She completed her MSc thesis on modeling the mechanical behavior of Mesenchymal Stem Cells based on phase-contrast microscopy method in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tel Aviv University (2016). Mayssam filled a position of Mechanical Engineer in a growing startup for a few years. Then, she started her PhD  in the OMNI group, studying the mechanical behavior of sperm cells through computerized modeling techniques and methods.
 

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Email: mayssam.nassir@gmail.com
]]> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?feed=rss2&p=6960 0 Shira Zapesotsky, BSc Physics http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=4148 http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=4148#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:30:03 +0000 omni http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~omni/?p=4148 .
MSc Student
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Shira Shinar ( Zapesotsky ) is an MSc Student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. She obtained her BScS in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. During her final year of BSc studies, she worked on building an auxiliary system for a two-photon microscope in the Department of Neuro-Science. In October 2014, she started working toward her thesis in the OMNI group, focusing on acousto-optical interferometry.

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Email: zapesotsky@mail.tau.ac.il
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