Current Members

Asst. Prof. Ahmad Masarwa

Principal Investigator

Senior Lecturer at the Chemistry Institute-HUJI

Oct. 2016-current

ahmad.masarwa1@mail.huji.ac.il

Ahmad completed his Ph.D. at the Technion in 2013, and then he moved to Berkeley for his postdoctol studies. Now he holds academic position as an Asst. Prof.

at the Hebrew University. His expertise including synthetic organic chemistry, in particularly he has focused on breaking bonds in order to construct new bonds, and additionally he has investigated enantioselective reactions, chirality and enantiomers. Since that he has been looking for his missing enantiomer!!!

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Dr Tipu Alam

Postdoctoral student April.2025-current

tipu.alam@mail.huji.ac.il

Tipu was born in India and completed his Ph.D in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Bhisma K. Patel at IIT Guwahati. His doctoral research focused on "Photo and Electrochemical Strategies to C-N Bond Formation". Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof.

Mr. Az-Alden Awad

Aug. 2025-present: Undergradute student (Summer-Fellowship Programm)

azalden.awad@mail.huji.ac.il

Az-Alden Awad was born in Tamra in 2004. He majored in chemistry and physics in high school and graduated with honors. In December 2023, he began his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mr. Nadim Eghbarieh

MSc. student OCT. 2019-current

Undergraduate student JLY. 2018-Sep.2019

Nadeem Eghbarieh was born in musmus, Israel in 1995. He was always interested in science, finished high school in Haifa, in chemistry biology, and continued his studying in the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, as an undergraduate student in chemistry and biology.

Currently he is working in Masarwa’s lab in research, in synthesis of organic chemistry. where he is looking after organoboron chemistry ;)

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Ms. Amit Garti

Aug. 2025-present: Undergradute student (Summer-Fellowship Programm)

amit.garti@mail.huji.ac.il

Amit Garti was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 2002. In high school, she majored in chemistry and computer science and graduated with honors. In December 2023, she began her undergraduate studies in chemistry and biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ms. Nicole Hanania

Msc. student OCT. 2019-current

Undergraduate student Dec. 2018-Sep.2019

nicole.hanania@mail.huji.ac.il

Nicole Hanania was born in Tel aviv-jaffa , Israel in 1996. she was always interested in science, finished high school in jaffa,

in chemistry-physics program, and continued her studying in the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, as an undergraduate student in chemistry. Currently she is working in Masarwa’s lab in research, in synthesis of organic chemistry.

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Mr. Tamir Kish

March 2025-present: Undergradute student (Etgar Programm)

tamir.kish@mail.huji.ac.il

During high school, Tamir studied mathematics at Bar-Ilan University and participated in the Alpha Program at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he conducted research involving EPR spectroscopy of metal complexes.

Dr Pinaki Nad

Postdoctoral student May 2025-current

pinaki.nad@mail.huji.ac.il

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Pinaki Nad was born in West Bengal, India. In 2025, he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Arup Mukherjee from the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai (IIT Bhilai).

His doctoral thesis focused on “Development of Boron-Based Catalytic Systems and their Application in Organic Transformations”. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Masarwa group.

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Ms. Nataly Nahum

Lab and Administration Manager

August 2025-present

natalyna@savion.huji.ac.il

Born in israel. Previously served in the police forensic laboratories.

Holds a B.Sc. in Biotechnology and has over seven years of experience in analytical chemistry laboratories. She currently serves as Laboratory Manager

Mr. Rafael Snyder

Msc student October 2023-current.

Undergraduate student Jan. 2022-2023.

robert.snyder@mail.huji.ac.il

Rafael grew up in New Jersey, USA and made aliyah after graduating high school. After completing his IDF service he began his undergraduate studies in the combined chemistry and biology program in Hebrew U.