My current position:  Manager of the Plasma Spectrochemistry Laboratory,

The Scientific Service Core Facility (ZBM Analytical Lab)
The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (since 2001).



Lab Duties:

• Setting up and maintaining the ICP-OES/MS Laboratory; overseeing lab operations.

• Providing customer service, including technical support and follow-up; managing sales and placing orders with vendors and suppliers.

• Supervising lab personnel and managing the lab's website.

• Conducting sampling and analyses, including sample collection and analysis using ICP-OES/MS. Developing assays for a wide range of samples, such as environmental samples, noble metal alloys, pharmaceutical products, and biological tissues, for elemental analysis using ICP-OES/MS.

• Presenting data and writing reports.

• Developing and validating methods; writing validation protocols and reports in accordance with GLP.

• Training and supervising ICP-OES/MS operators; providing group and individual training.

• Delivering lectures on Atomic Spectroscopy methods to students from various faculties.

 

Main Lab Equipment:

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• ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer) HR Dual-View, Analytik Jena, Germany

• ICP-MS PQ Elite, Quadropole MS, Analytik Jena, Germany

• Microwave Digestion Ovens: "Ethos Easy", Milestone, Italy; Discover SPD, CEM, USA

• Chloride Analyzer M926, Sherwood Scientific Ltd., UK.

...and other instruments.

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Main Methods:



• Microwave-assisted digestion (sample preparation);

• Sequential extraction protocols (sample preparation);

• Atomic emission and mass spectrometry (elements concentration  determination);

• Argentometry (chlorine determination);

• Potentiometry (pH and EC determination);

• Gravimetry (water TSS and TDS determination).

Capable of working with:



• UV-VIS Spectrophotometry;

• HPLC, GC and GC-MS;

• TOC analysis;

• Elemental Analysis (CHNSO determination);

• FTIR.