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Professor Amit Meller

Roy Matas Winnipeg Chair in Biomedical Engineering

 

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNi)
The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary center for Life Sciences and Engineering

 

Office:

Silver 365 / Emerson 6-27

Post:

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Haifa 32000, ISRAEL

Tel:

+972-4-829-3202

e-mail:

ameller@technion.ac.il

ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amit_Meller

Education/Positions

  • 2022 - Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, USA

  • 2021 - 2022 - Visiting Professor, WYSS institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA

  • 2010 - Present - Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

  • 2010 - Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

  • 2010 - 2015 - World-Class University visiting Professor, Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea

  • 2006 - 2010 - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Physics, Boston University

  • 2000 - 2006 - Rowland Senior Fellow, PI of the Single Molecule Biophysics lab, Rowland Institute, Harvard University

  • 1998 - 2000 - Postdoc Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University with Prof. Dan Branton

  • 1997 - 1998 - Postdoc Fellow, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science with Prof. Doron Lancet

  • 1997 - Ph.D. Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science1993M.Sc. Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

  • 1989 - B.Sc. Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University

Selected Awards and Commissions of Trust

  • 2023 - Hilda and Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award

  • 2022 - The Diane Sherman Prize for Medical Innovation for a Better World

  • 2022 - Kidmat Hamada (Sweden-Israel) Award

  • 2021 - ERC PoC Award, Horizon 2020, EU

  • 2019 - ERC ADG award “NanoProt-ID”

  • 2017 - The Diane Sherman Prize for Medical innovations for a Better World

  • 2013 - 2017 - Director, National Center of Excellence (I-Core) “Physical Approaches to Quantifying Dynamical Processes in Living Systems”, Israeli Science Foundation (ISF).

  • 2012 - 2017 - Spokesperson and Co-PI of the German-Israeli Helmholtz Research School SignGene.

  • 2016 - Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports (NPG)

  • 2016 - Editorial Board Member Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics (GPB)

  • 2015 - Editorial Board Member Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express

  • 2014 - External reviewer for ERC STG and ERC COG grants, EC

  • 2004 - 2016 Review panel member, NIH/NHGRI, Technology Development for Genome Sequencing, USA.