“I hope that my research will be another small step in the journey of mankind towards the nano revolution.”

We think out of the box


They see the future, and they hold it in their hands. Synthesizing knowledge and skills between different faculties, they bridge research labs and create something new. They are the graduate students of the new generation: the nano generation.

New structures like the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) move with the scientific and technological needs of tomorrow, facilitating intense multidisciplinary activity to rapidly and effectively give form to new frontiers of research. This is a vision that thinks ‘out of the box’, and over 300 graduate students at the Norman Seiden International Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Nano Science and Technology form a dynamic part of the ongoing revolution. Beyond their unity with RBNI’s high standards of excellence, these students are facilitators of collaboration, each pioneering whole new areas of nanoscience and technology. 

Yael Pascal-Levy is in her fifth semester as a PhD student in the program where she works under the supervision of Dr. Yuval Yaish and Prof. Yoav Eichen.

“I hope I will be able to demonstrate the electrical detection and identification of single biological molecules using carbon nanotube field-effect transistors,” she says. “The ability to make such highly sensitive and selective measurements, if could lead to enormous breakthroughs in DNA analysis, groundwater monitoring, clinical diagnostics and fundamental studies of physical and chemical phenomena at the single molecule level.”

RBNI Phd Student Yael Pascal Levy