Bat-El Pinchasik

Bat-El Pinchasik graduated from the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel, in Materials Engineering (B.Sc.) and Physics (B.Sc.) in 2010. She did her master’s research at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany (2012). She then continued on a Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Interfaces and Department of Biomaterials. In 2015 she became a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. Since 2018 she is an Assistant Professor at the Tel-Aviv University, Israel, at the department of Mechanical Engineering. She is interested in biomimetics, interfacial phenomena, insects biomechanics, underwater adhesion and locomotion, and wetting.