Avner ROTHSCHILD

Is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the head of the Sustainability Center at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He studied physics and materials engineering at the Technion, and graduated in 2003 with a PhD on thin film metal-oxide gas sensors. After a three-year postdoc on solid-state ionics at MIT, he returned to the Technion as a faculty member at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the head of the Electrochemical Materials & Devices research group. His research focuses on electro-chemical and photoelectrochemical materials and devices for water splitting as a means of sustainable production of green hydrogen from renewable energies such as solar and wind. Professor Avner Rothschild is a co-founder of H2Pro, a startup company that develops a transformative water splitting technology for low-cost production of green hydrogen at scale. He was a member of several European consortia and had an ERC consolidator grant on photoelectro-chemical water splitting. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (since 2021) and a Kavli fellow of the National Academy of Sciences USA (2017).
Professor Avner Rothschild has received distinguished prizes and awards, including the Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Global Innovation in Alternative Fuels (2020), and the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize: Stephanie L. Kwolek Award (2022).