Current Members

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.

Dr. Naresh Babu

Postdoctoral-Scholar

Jan.2019-current

Office 301/ Lab. 317

Hi, this is Naresh Babu, grew and completed my 10+2 from Chilamathur, Andhra Pradesh, India. I have received my B.Sc. degree from Sapthagiri college, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur in 2009 and M.Sc. Organic chemistry from Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa in 2012. After M.Sc.

Mr. Nadim Eghbarieh

MSc. student OCT. 2019-current

Undergraduate student JLY. 2018-Sep.2019

Dr. Vipin Gavit

Postdoctoral-Scholar Jan.2023-current

Office 305/ Lab. 317

02-6586007

vipin.gavit@mail.huji.ac.il

Vipin is from the Navapada of Maharashtra state, India. He studied a Bachelor of Science in honors chemistry at the ACS College Navapur of North Maharashtra University Jalgaon and a Master of Science with a specialization in organic chemistry at Savitribai Phule Pune University of Pune, India.

Ms. Nicole Hanania

Msc. student OCT. 2019-current

Undergraduate student Dec. 2018-Sep.2019

nicole.hanania@mail.huji.ac.il

Undergraduate student Dec. 2018-Sep.2019

Dr. Gurupada Hazra

Postdoctoral-Scholar Dec.2022-current

lab. 02-6586007, office. 02-6584869

gurupada.hazra@mail.huji.ac.il

Gurupada Hazra obtained his B. Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. In 2019, he has completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Prasanta Ghorai at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India.

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.

Asst. Prof. Ahmad Masarwa

Principal Investigator

Senior Lecturer at the Chemistry Institute-HUJI

Oct. 2016-current

+972-2-6584881

ahmad.masarwa1@mail.huji.ac.il

Ms. Fedaa Massarwe

Undergraduate student Dec. 2017-March. 2018

MSc. Student March 2018-current

Office 301/ Lab. 312

lab. 02-6586007, office. 02-6584869

fedaa.massarwe@mail.huji.ac.il

"Hi, I'm Fedaa Massarwe. Born and raised in Tayibe, Israel. Since early age I was attracted to science- chemistry in particular. I find organic chemistry to be the most fascinating field of chemistry! "

Dr Pinaki Nad

Postdoctoral student May 2025-current

pinaki.nad@mail.huji.ac.il

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Mr. Tamer Saiaede

Year of completion towards the Msc. study Oct.2019-current

lab. 02-6586007, office. 02-6584869

tamer.saiaede@mail.huji.ac.il

Tamer born and raised up in Dappuriya, Israel. He completed his undergraduate studies at Arab college of Education at Haifa with distinction. Now he is working at the Masarwa's research group at HUJI.

Mr. Rafael Snyder

Undergraduate student Jan. 2022-current.

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.