Professor Emeritus, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Abraham (Avi) Marmur received his D.Sc. in 1974 at the chemical engineering department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, then spent two years in Buffalo, NY as a postdoc with Eli Ruckenstein. He returned to Technion in 1976 as a faculty member and is now a Professor Emeritus. During this period, he spent two Sabbatical years, one at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and another at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Prof. Marmur has worked and published extensively in the field of interfacial phenomena for more than forty years and has been consulting for major companies. He has also participated in many international conferences and has been active in lecturing in universities and industrial sites in many countries. In addition, he was an editor of Reviews in Chemical Engineering, and was on the advisory committee/editorial board of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Colloids and surfaces A, Surface Reports, Entropy, and Surface Innovations. At Technion, professor Marmur received awards for excellence in research and in teaching. In 2017 he received the Association of Advanced Materials Medal. His goal is to study the fundamentals of interfacial phenomena, such as the definition of surface tension, correlations for interfacial tensions, correct ways of measuring contact angles, super-hydrophobicity, unexplored cases in nucleation, etc.