Dr. Alexander B. Tesler

PREVIOUS POSITION

Postdoctoral scholar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral research fellowship, WYSS Institute for Bioinspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA.

2008 – 2012 Weizmann Institute PhD scholarship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

2003 Prize of “TOSAF” Company for Excellence in Polymer Sciences, Technion.

2002, 2003 Chemical Engineering Dean Award of Excellence, Technion.

2001, 2003 Technion President Awards of Excellence, Technion.

EDUCATION

2013 – 2015 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, WYSS Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA
Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Joanna Aizenberg
Title: “Formation of Mechanically Durable Omniphobic Slippery Surfaces as a Platform for Anti-icing, Anti-corrosive, Antibacterial and Marine Anti-Biofouling Applications” and  “Formation of superhydrophobic/slippery surfaces for medical implants”.

2008 – 2013  PhD, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Supervisor: Prof. Israel Rubinstein

Thesis title: “Plasmonic Nanostructures Obtained by Thermal Annealing of Percolated Metal Films and Their Application in Bio-Sensing”.

2004 – 2006 Master of Science (MSc), Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Supervisors: Prof. Daniel R. Lewin and Prof. Yoed Tsur.
Thesis title: “Analysis of Impedance Spectroscopy Data by Using Genetic Programming Methods”.

2000 – 2004 Bachelor of Science (BSc, Cum Laude) in Chemical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2007 – 2008 Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Research fellow in the group of Prof. Israel Rubinstein.
Title: “Solid-State Dewetting of Ultrathin Gold Films on Ceramic Substrates”.

INVITED ORAL PRESENTATIONS

2015 Israel Electro-Chemistry, Beer-Sheva, Israel. “Non-toxic slippery anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling surfaces on electrochemically prepared metallic surfaces”.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

2016 17^th Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC-17), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. “Non-toxic slippery anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling surfaces”.

2015 29^th European conference for Colloids and Interface Society, (ECIS-29), Bordeaux, France. “Non-toxic slippery anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling surfaces on metallic support”.

2014 Israel Electro-Chemistry, Haifa, Israel. “Electrodeposition as an Universal Tool for Making Metallic Surfaces Slippery”.

2014 28^th European conference for Colloids and Interface Society, (ECIS-28), Limassol, Cyprus. “Mechanically Tough superhydrophobic and Slippery Surfaces on Metallic Substrates”.

2014 16th Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC-16), Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel. “Slippery Stainless Steel or How to Make Mechanically Robust Slippery Surfaces”.

2013 6^th Schulich Graduate Students Symposium on Chemistry, Technion – IIT, Israel. “Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy as an Effective Tool for Biological Sensing Applications”.

2011 1^st Israel Society for Biotechnology Engineering conference, Ramat Gan, Israel. “Localized Plasmon Sensing of Biological Interactions: Preparation and Rational Design of Stable Transducers”.

2010 76^th Israel Chemical Society Meeting, Tel-Aviv, Israel. “LSPR Transducers for Sensing Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions”.

PATENTS

2015 Aizenberg, J., Tesler, A.B., Kolle, S., Howell, C., “Antibacterial and anti-biofouling titanium surfaces”, Report of Invention: HU 5862

2015 Aizenberg, J., Hou, X., Khan, M., Tesler, A.B. “Fluid-based Gating Mechanism with Tunable Multiphase Selectivity and Antifouling Behavior”, US Patent Application No. 62/113,963

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE

2013 – 2015 Mentor of COOP and REU students, Harvard University, USA

2014 Mentor of recipient of the Israel Arie Gur prize (Israeli Ministry of Education) of excellence for a high school chemistry research project (with Nimrod de la Vega).

2012 Mentor of recipient of the Israel Chemical Society (ICS) prize of excellence for a high school chemistry research project (with Hadass Inbar).

2008 – 2012 Materials science teaching of high school students and teachers, mentor of a high school chemistry research projects and international summer school students, Davidson Institute programs, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

2003-2006 Teaching assistant, Chemical Engineering Department, Technion, Israel
Courses: “Chemical Engineering Simulation Laboratory”, “Polymers Laboratory”, Frontal course of “Polymers I” (Introduction to Polymers and Polymerization Kinetics) with Prof. Moshe Narkis.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. Tesler, A.B.; Hou, X.; Park, K.-C.; Fricke, D. “High Pressure Stable Metallic Liquid-Infused Membranes with Controllable Gas/Liquid Selectivity and Antifouling Properties”, in preparation.

2. Tesler, A.B.; Kim, P.; Kolle, S.; Howell, C.; Ahanotu, O.; Aizenberg, J. “Highly durable, biofouling-resistant metallic materials based on electrodeposition of nanoporous tungstite films on steels”, Nat. Commun., 2015, 6:8649 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9649.

3. Tesler, A.B.; Maoz, B.M.; Feldman, Y.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein, I. “Solid-State Thermal Dewetting of Just-Percolated Gold Films Evaporated on Glass: Development of the Morphology and Optical Properties”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117, 11337-11346. DOI: 10.1021/jp400895z

4. Karakouz, T.; Tesler, A.B.; Sannomiya, T.; Feldman, Y.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein, I.; “Kinetics of Thermal Embedding of Gold Island Films in Glass”, PCCP, 2013, 15, 4656-4665. DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50198A.

5. Maoz, B.M.; Chaikin, Y.; Tesler, A.B. Bar Elli, O.; Fan, Z.; Govorov, A.O.; Markovich, G. “Amplification of chiroptical activity of chiral molecules by its induction on surface plasmons”, Nano Lett., 2013, 13 (3), 1203–1209. DOI: 10.1021/nl304638a

6. Frolov, L.; Dix, A.; Tor, Y., Tesler, A.B.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein, I.; “Direct Observation of Aminoglycoside–RNA Binding by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Spectroscopy”, Anal. Chem., 2013, 85, 2200-2207. DOI: 10.1021/ac3029079.

7. Bellapadrona, G.;* Tesler, A.B.;* Grünstein, D.;* Hossain, L. H.; Kikkeri, R.; Seeberger, P.H.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein, I. “Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Transducers for Studying Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions”, Anal. Chem., 2012, 84 (1), 232–240, *Equal contribution. DOI: 10.1021/ac202363t.

8. Tesler, A.B.; Chuntonov, L.; Karakouz, T.; Bendikov, T.A.; Haran, G.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein. I. “Tunable Localized Plasmon Transducers Prepared by Thermal Dewetting of Percolated Evaporated Gold Films”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (50), 24642–24652. DOI: 10.1021/jp209114j.

9. Kedem, O.; Tesler, A.B.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein I. “Sensitivity and Optimization of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Transducers”, ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (2), 748–760. DOI: 10.1021/nn102617d.

10. Cohavi, O.; Reichmann, D.; Abramovich, R.; Tesler, A.B.; Bellapadrona, G.; Kokh, D. B.; Wade, R. C.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein, I.; Schreiber, G.; “A Quantitative, Real-Time Assessment of Binding of Peptides and Proteins to Gold Surfaces”, Chem. Eur. J., 2010, 17 (4), 1327–1336. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201001781.

11. Tesler, A.B.; Lewin, D.R.; Baltianski, S.; Tsur, Y.; “Analyzing results of impedance spectroscopy using novel evolutionary programming techniques”, J.  Electroceramics, 2009, 1385-3449. DOI: 10.1007/s10832-009-9565-z.

12. Karakouz, T.; Tesler, A.B.; Bendikov, T.A.; Vaskevich, A.; Rubinstein, I.; “Highly Stable Localized Plasmon Transducers Obtained by Thermal Embedding of Gold Island Films on Glass”, Adv. Mater., 2008, 20, 3893 – 3899. DOI: 10.1002/adma.200703092.