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Yevgeny Rakita Shlafstein
Home Town: Grew up in a small place called Kiryat-Gat, Israel. Then moved between Tel Aviv and Rehovot during military service and PhD.
Degree Pursuing: Postdoc – Columbia University , New York, NY, USA – Data Science Institute with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics – 2019 – current
Previous Education: Ph.D – The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel – Department of Materials and Interfaces – 2014-2019
Favorite Material (with Love-Hate Relationship): Hailed perovskites – toxic, but you can grow beautiful crystals (below) with it (and it’s good for solar energy)