CURRICULUM VITA Adi Wolfson, Ph.D. Business Address Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL, 84100 Tel: 972-8-6475766 Fax: 972-8-6475636 E-mail:
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Home Address 14 Zalman Vaksman st. Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL, 84965 Tel: 972 -8-6409330
Personal Marital Status: Married + 3 Date of Birth: August 19, 1971. Nationality: Israeli University Education 2001
1997 1996
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Summa cum laude. Thesis: "Chiral Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Prochiral Compounds" (Advisors: Prof. M. Herskowitz and Prof. S. Geresh). M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Summa cum laude. B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Summa cum laude.
Academic Positions and Employmant 2007-present 2004-2007 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002
Head of Chemical Engineering Department, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Departmaent, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Departmaent, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel Researcher, Blechner Center for Industrial Catalysis, Chemical Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Research Associate, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis; Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
List of Academic Award and Fellowships 1994 1996 1995
The Engineering Dean Award for first degree students. The Engineering Dean Award for first degree students. The Delek Company Award for the best student in Chemical Engineering Departments of Israel. 1997 Izenberg Award in Chemical Engineering Department. 1999 Izenberg Award in Chemical Engineering Department. 2001 The Engineering Dean Award for graduate students. 2001 Trombky Prize in the Chemical Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University. 1997-2001: Kreitman Foundation Fellowship. List of Publications
1. Vankelecom, I.F.J., Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Landau, M.V., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M.
“First heterogenization of Rh-MeDuPHOS by occlusion in PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) membranes” Chem. Commun., 2407-2408 (1999).
2. Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Landau, M.V., Herskowitz, M. “Enantioselective hydrogenation 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
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of methyl acetoacetate catalyzed by nickel supported on activated carbon or graphite”, Appl. Catal. 208, 91-98 (2001). Guernik, S., Wolfson, A., Herskowitz, M., Greenspoon, N., Geresh, S. “A novel system consisting of Rh/DuPHOS and ionic liquid for asymmetric hydrogenations”, Chem. Commun., 22, 2314 - 2316 (2001). Wolfson, A., Janssens, S., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M., “Aqueous enantioselective hydrogenation of methyl 2 acetamidoacrylate with RhMeDuPHOS occluded in PDMS”, Chem. Commun., 5, 388-389 (2002). Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M. “Heterogenization of RhMeDuPHOS by occlusion in polyvinyl alcohol films”, Tetrahedron Asymmetry 13, 465468 (2002). Wolfson, A., Wuyts, S., De Vos, D.E., Vankelecom, I.F.J., "Aerobic oxidation of alcohols with ruthenium catalysts in ionic liquids", Tetrahedron Letters, 43, 8107-8110 (2002). A. Wolfson, Vankelecom, I.F.J., Jacobs, P.A. "Co-immobilization of transition metal complexes and ionic liquids in a polymeric support for liquid phase hydrogenations". Tetrahedron Letters, 44, 1195 (2003). Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Geresh, S., Jacobs, P.A. "The role of the solvent in the asymmetric hydrogenation of β-keto esters with Ru-BINAP", J. Mol. Catal. A, 198, 39 (2003). Wang, X., Rotter, H., Vradman, L., Wolfson, A., Landau, M.V. "TiO2 and ZrO2 nanocrystals at high loadings in nanotubes of SBA-15 silica: performance of Pt/ TiO2(ZrO2)/SBA-15 catalysts in ethylacetate combustion". J. Catal., 222, 565 (2004). Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Geresh, S., Jacobs, P.A. "The role of acid in accelerating the asymmetric reduction of methyl acetoacetate with BINAP-chloro-(pcymene)-Ru chloride complex", J. Mol. Catal. A, 217, 21 (2004). Madhusudhan, R.P., Wolfson, A., Landau, M.V., Herskowitz, M. "Efficient immobilization of 12-tungstophosphoric acid catalyst at the surface of silica support grafted with alumina", Catal. Commun., 5, 327 (2004). Wolfson, A., Shapira-Tchelet, A.M., Shokin, O., Madhusudhan, R.P., Tavor, D., Landau, M.V., Herskowitz, M. " Solid acid materials for acylation of aromatics", Progress in Catalysis Reaearch, 97 (2005). Wolfson, A., Shokin, O., Tavor, D. "Acid catalyzes the synthesis of aromatic gemdihalides from their corresponding aromatic aldehydes ", J. Mol. Catal., 226, 69 (2005). Madhusudhan, R.P., Landau, M.V., Wolfson, A., Shapira-Tchelet, A.M., Herskowitz, M. "Cesium salt of a heteropolyacid in nanotubular channels and on the external surface of SBA-15 crystals: preparation and performance as acidic catalysts "Microporous and Mesoprous materials" 80, 43 (2005). Landau, M.V., Titelman, L., Shapira-Tchelet, A.M., Vradman, L., Tavor, D., Wolfson, A., "Effect of Nanoporous ZrO2 Crystal Size On the Surface Sulfur Capacity and Performance of Sulfated ZrO2 as an Acidic Catalytic Material". Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal., 156, 385 (2005). Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Jacobs, P.A. "Beneficial effect of water as second solvent in ionic liquid biphasic catalytic hydrogenations" Tetrahedron letters, 46, 2513 (2005). Landau, M.V., L. Vradman, Wolfson, A., Madhusudhan, R.P., M. Herskowitz, "Dispersions of Transition Metal-Based Phases in Mesostructured Silica Matrix: Preparation of High-Performance Catalytic Materials", Comptes Rendus Chimie, 8, 679 (2005). Madhusudhan, R.P., Wolfson, A., Kababya, S., Vega, S., Landau, M.V. "Immobilization of Molecular H3PW12O40 Heteropolyacid Catalys in Alumina-Grafted Silica-Gel and Mesostructure SBA-15 Silica Matrices", J. Catal, 232, 210 (2005). Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Jacobs, P.A. "The role of additional solvents in transition metal complex catalyzed asymmetric reductions in ionic liquid containing systems" J. Organometallic Chem., 690, 3558 (2005). Wolfson, A., Yehuda, C., Shokin, O., Tavor, D. " Simple and recyclable oxidation, racemization and dynamic kinetic resolution of activated alcohols catalyzed by hydrated ruthenium chloride in aqueous medium", Lett. Org. Chem., 3, 107 (2005). Wolfson, A., Christina Dlugy and Yoram Shotland, "Glycerol as a green solvent for high product yields and selectivities", Environ. Chem. Lett. 5, 67 (2006).
22. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, D., Tavor, D., Blumenfeld, J., Shotland, Y. "Baker's yeast catalyzed asymmetric reduction in glycerol", Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 17, 2043 (2006).
23. Ben-Harush, K., Wolfson, A., Herskowitz, M. "Unexpected performance of solid alkaline
metal hydroxides in liquid phase oxidations of aromatic alcohols", Lett. Org. Chem., 3, 664 (2006). 24. Dlugy, C., Wolfson, A.,"Lipase catalyse glycerolysis for kinetic resolution of racemates", Bioprocess and Biosystems Eng. 5, 67 (2006). 25. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, C. "Palladium Catalyzed Heck and Suzuki Coupling in Glycerol", Chem. Papers, 61, 228 (2007). 26. Tavor, D., Wolfson, A., Shamaev, A., Shvarzman, A. "Recycling of industrial waste water by its immobilization in geopolymer cement", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 46, 6801 (2007). List of Presentaton 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Tavor, D., Gottlib, M.; “Ring Formation in Polymer Gelatin as a Results Of Intramolecular Reaction”NETWORK-92 Conf., Jerusalem, Israel, 1992. Tavor, D., Tavor, A., and Avraaham, E., “A New Approach in Teaching HighSchoolChemical Technology Students Using a Computerized Data-Bank”, The 61 Conf., of the Israeli Chemical Soc., Jerusalem, Israel, 1995 Wolfson, A., Koresh, J.E., Herskowitz, M. "Oligomerization of light olefins on carbon fibers catalyst" , The 35 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering Conference, Beer-Sheva, Israel, April 1997. Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Landau, M.V., Herskowitz, M. “Enantioselective hydrogenation of methyl acetoacetate with nickel-supported on activated carbon or graphite”, 5th International Symposium on Heterogeneous Catalysis and Fine Chemicals, Lyon, France, September, 1999. Naim, J., Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M. "Occlusion of transition metal complexes in a porous PDMS membrane", Euromembrane 2000, Jerusalem, Israel, July .2000. Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M. "Occlusion of chiral transition metal complexes in PDMS( polydimethylsiloxane) Films", Petrofina Chair, Leuven Summer School on Catalysis, Oostend, Belgium, October, 2000. Wolfson, A., Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M. "Heterogenization of chiral complexes by occlusion in PDMS( polydimethylsiloxane) film", The 35 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering Institute, Haifa, Israel, April 2001. Wolfson, A., Haviv, L. Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M. "Heterogenization of Rh-MeDuPHOS by occlusion in polymer matrices", EURAOPCAT, 5th European Congress on Catalysis, Limerick, Ireland, 2-7 September, 2001. Wolfson, A., Haviv, L. Geresh, S., Gottlieb, M., Herskowitz, M. "Heterogenization of metal complexes by occlusion in polymer matrices", Gentner Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, April, 2002. Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Jacobs, P.A."Multifunctional operation of catalytic systems in ionic liquids" 6th International Symposium on Heterogeneous Catalysis and Fine Chemicals, Delft, Nederland, April, 2003. Wolfson, A. " Multifunctional operation of catalytic systems in ionic liquids", The 39 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2003. Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Jacobs, P.A. "Multifunctional operation of catalytic systems in ionic liquids" EURAOPCAT, 6th European Congress on Catalysis, Innsbruck, Austria, September, 2003. Madhusudhan, R.P., Landau, M.V., Wolfson, A., Shapira-Tchelet, A.M., Herskowitz, M. "Cesium salt of a heteropolyacid in nanotubular channels and on the external surface of SBA-15 crystals: preparation and performance as acidic catalysts" 4th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, 2004. Madhusudhan, R.P., Landau, M.V., Wolfson, A., Herskowitz, M. "Efficient immobilization of 12-tungstophosphoric acid catalyst at the surface of silica gel and SBA-15 supports grafted with alumina", New Perspectives of Self Assembly Organization and Functionality at the Meso-Scale, Rehovot, Israel, 2004. Madhusudhan, R.P., Landau, M.V., Wolfson, A., Shapira-Tchelet, A.M., Herskowitz, M. "Cesium salt of a heteropolyacid in nanotubular channels and on the external surface of SBA-15 crystals: preparation and performance as acidic catalysts" The 40 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2004. Wolfson, A., Yehuda, C., Shokin, O., Tavor, D. "Ruthenium catalyzed simple and recyclable aerobic oxidation of alcohols in water and ionic liquids biphasic systems", The 13th International Congress on Catalysis, Paris, France, July 2004.
17. Madhusudhan, R.P., Wolfson, A., Kababya, S., Vega, S., Landau, M.V. "Immobilization of Molecular H3PW12O40 Heteropolyacid Catalys in Alumina-Grafted Mesostructure SBA-15 Silica Matrix" Nanoporous Materials IV, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 2005. 18. Landau, M.V., Titelman, L., Shapira-Tchelet, A.M., Vradman, L., Tavor, D., Wolfson, A., "Effect of Nanoporous ZrO2 Crystal Size On the Surface Sulfur Capacity and Performance of Sulfated ZrO2 as an Acidic Catalytic Material", Nanoporous Materials IV, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 2005. 19. Ben-Harush, K., Wolfson, A., Herskowitz, M. "Unexpected Catalytic Performance of Solid Alkaline Metal Hydroxides in Organic Reactions of Aromatic Alcohols", The 4th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis (4th ICEC), Heidelberg, Germany, June 2005. 20. Wolfson, A., Ben-Harush, K., Herskowitz, M. "Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohols by Solid Alkaline Metal Hydroxides", Catalysis and biocatalysis in green chemistry, Cambridge, England, December 2005. 21. Tavor, D., Wolfson, A., Shamaev, A., Shvarzman, A. "Recycling of industrial waste water by its immobilization in geopolymer cement", The 34th National Conference of The Israeli Association of environmental Sciences and Ecology, Haifa, Israel, June 2006. 22. Wolfson, A., Tavor, D. "Green Engineering Course", The 34th National Conference of The Israeli Association of environmental Sciences and Ecology, Haifa, Israel, June 2006. 23. Tavor, D., Wolfson, A., Shamaev, A., Shvarzman, A. "Recycling of industrial waste water by its immobilization in geopolymer cement", The 1st Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering for Environment, Venice, Italy, October 2006. 24. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, D., Tavor, D., Blumenfeld, J., Shotland, Y. "Baker's yeast catalyzed asymmetric reduction in glycerol", The 1st Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering for Environment, Venice, Italy, October 2006. 25. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, D., Tavor, D., Blumenfeld, J., Shotland, Y."Asymmetric reduction with baker's yeast in glycerol", The 42 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2006. 26. Huzman, V., Sapir, O., Wolfson, A. "Enzymatic performance of phosphatase in glycerol", The 42 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2006. 27. Wolfson, A., Tavor, D. "Environmental culture", The 35th National Conference of The Israeli Association of environmental Sciences and Ecology, Rehovot, Israel, June 2007. 28. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, D., Tavor, D., Shotland, Y. "Glycerol as alternative green reaction medium", Green Chemistry: Applications, Research and Policy", Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2007. 29. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, D., Tavor, D., Shotland, Y. "Glycerol as alternative green reaction medium", ISHHC XII: International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Berkeley CA, USA, July 2007. 30. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, D., Tavor, D., Shotland, Y. "Glycerol as alternative green reaction medium", Europacat 8: International Symposium on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Turko, Finland, August 2007. 31. Wolfson, A., Litvak, G., Dlugy, C. "Employing crude glycerol from biodiesel production as an alternative green reaction medium, Krakow, Poland, May, 2008. Patents Wolfson, A., Vankelecom, I.F.J., Jacobs, P.A. Integrated catalytic process, GB 0222546.4.
Membership in Professional Committe 1. Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE) Conference Organization 1. "The 40 Annual Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineering", Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2004. 2. "The Fist Next Generation Conference", Beer-Sheva, Usrael, May 2008.
Research Interests Green Chemistry, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Bio- and Chemo-Catalysis, Asymmetric synthesis, Ionic Liquids. Research Students 1. Shapira-Tchelet, A.M.M.Sc. thesis: " Solid Acid Catalyst for the Acylation of Aromatics", Chemical Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion Univesity of the Negev, 2005 (together with Herskowitz, , M.) 2. Ben-Harush, K. M.Sc. thesis: "Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohols by Solid Alkaline Metal Hydroxides", in Chemical Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion Univesity of the Negev, 2006 (together with Herskowitz, M.) Teaching Activities Introduction to chemical Engineering 1-3, Thermodynamics 1,2, Green Engineering, Advansed Reactors and Scale-up.
