Zeev will be greatly missed. Respected by all. He was the real deal always willing to help anyone who asked. He was a wealth of knowledge but he was always humble and pleasant.
We all received Zeev's Expertise for free (link and text below show what a deal that was).
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Expertise Description:
physics
solid-state physics
condensed-matter physics
condensed-matter theory
Expert (also goes by "Ze'ev," pronounced "Ze'-ave"; his last name is pronounced "Hade") has expertise in nuclear and solid state physics with a recent emphasis on unique materials including semiconductors and superconductors. Expert's doctorate degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel is in solid state physics and he has worked in the field extensively in the last 30 years.
superconducting material
superconductivity
ceramic superconductor
magnetic property
high-temperature superconductivity
high-temperature superconductor
organic superconductor
Expert has authored 16 patents in the field of high-temperature (ceramic) superconductors in the last 12 years; one recent additional application is pending. His strength in this area is in strategy and technology assessment as well as business and new product development. He is the co-founder of Superconductivity Strategy Reports, which is devoted to new business opportunities in the field of high temperature superconductors. Expert is also a co-founder of Invent Resources, Inc., a company dedicated to providing customers with proprietary product solutions. He also provided major consulting services in the field to a number of companies, including writing a number of SBIR proposals with a success rate of one out of three proposal written. In addition, Expert is affiliated (as a board member and a member of the technical advisory board) with Room Temperature Superconductors Inc. (ROOTS), a company involved in the implementation of polymer-based ambient superconductors. As part of this activity, Expert, in conjunction with additional inventors from ROOTS, just filed a major patent in the field.
ceramic processing
electrical ceramic
Expert is involved with the application of ceramics to biomedical instrumentation. He has helped develop new ceramics and new ceramic processes.
magnetic fluid
As President of the Technology Group at Ferrofluidics Corporation, Expert was heavily involved in magnetic fluids. He also worked in materials technology including single crystal growth technology.
thermoelectric material
Expert has developed and was granted two patents on a very high efficiency thermoelectric-based heat pump.
remote illumination
luminaire
Expert has developed a major new technology to collect and redistribute light from standard light sources. He has also developed a unique remote illumination technology, including light extractors (involving controlled light extraction rates from optical fibers), light concentrators, low-cost low-loss light diffusers, novel optical chemical reactors, water-immersible luminaires, and other devices. The following seven U.S. patents cover the technology: 5,222,795, 5,247,390, 5,301,090, 5,727,108, 5,836,669, 6,043,294 and 6,238,078.
alumina ceramic
Expert has worked with refractory alumina ware for many years, developed methods of obtaining theta alumina as well as developed unique ways of obtaining translucent alumina. He is also heavily involved in injection molding of parts from alumina. He also acted as consultant to Saphikon on methods of polishing single crystal sapphire.
business incubator
new product development
small business
technology evaluation
technology innovation
entrepreneurship
While consulting for Medical Science Partners (a Harvard Medical school affiliated VC firm), Expert helped launch a number of start-up companies based on technologies developed at the medical school as well as technologies he helped develop. He is currently on the Board of Directors of two start-up companies as well as on the board of "Technical Advisors" of a third company.
business management
technology management
Expert has been President and COO of a medical instrumentation company (American Electromedics Corp.) and President of the Technology Group of Ferrofluidics Corp. Currently he is a Vice President at Invent Resources, Inc. and a board member of Room Temperature Superconductors, Inc. Earlier in his career, he was a Vice President at Technicon Corporation, with responsibilities over time for M&A work, new product launch, and divisional management.
instrumentation (equipment)
Expert's business career has been concentrated in analytical and medical instrumentation, particularly in the launch of new products from specification to alpha and beta site testing and deployment.
Josephson junction
As part of Expert's work in superconductors, he was also involved in the development of unique Josephson junctions (see U.S. patents 5,064,809 and 5,171,732).
magnetocaloric refrigeration
Expert authored a generic patent in the field of "magnetic heat pumps using the inverse magnetocaloric effect" (U.S. patent 5,091,361), and as such, this work necessitated the full understanding of traditional magnetocaloric refrigeration.
medical oxygen concentrator
As part of his work in the medical instrumentation field, Expert developed one of the first molecular sieve delta P cycle-based portable oxygen concentrators.
Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise
Education:
Year Degree Subject Institution
Postdoctoral work in Materials Technology Battelle Memorial Institute
1966 Sc.D. Solid State Physics Technion - Haifa, Israel
1963 M.S. Nuclear Physics Hebrew University - Jerusalem
Work History:
Years Employer Department Title
1985 to (Undisclosed) Senior Consultant
1983 to 1985 Ferrofluidics Corp. Technology Group President
1982 to 1983 American Electromedics Corporation President
1976 to 1982 Technicon Instruments Corporation Vice President
Career Accomplishments:
Publications and Patents
Expert has published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers, and has about 50 patents in a variety of areas including superconductivity, semiconductors, medical instruments, thermoelectric devices and other diverse fields.
Consulting Services:
Expert helped a halogen lamps manufacturer to drastically increase yields.
He developed a cardiac cryoblation technology now serving as the base technology for a new company.
Expert developed, for a client, a completely new remote illumination technology (six patents issued).
He provided support to a client who was entering the medical devices field with injection-molded ceramic hardware.
For another client, Expert developed a technique to improve the tribologic properties of silicon carbide seals.
As a member of the Intota top consultant network, Expert can provide corporate consulting, consulting to firms, consulting to companies, and government consulting. Expert may serve as a technical consultant, product design consultant, or litigation consultant, in addition to providing other professional consulting services in areas involving Technology Innovation, Superconductors, Semiconductors, Ceramics, Glasses, and Medical Devices. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company, or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract. To ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars, simply submit an expert request.
International Experience:
Years Country / Region Summary
1958 to 1971 Israel Expert was educated in Israel (1958-63 M.Sc., 1963-66 Sc.D.) In 1971, developed a number of unique systems for the IDF, including IR transmitting domes for air-to-air missiles, self-deploying marine chaff systems, and other confidential systems.
1991 to 1991 France He provided consulting services to "Electricite de France" in the field of superconductors (specifically, SMES, or superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System).
Language Skills:
Foreign Language Description
French Expert is fluent in French.
Hebrew He is fluent in Hebrew.
Russian Expert can read technical Russian.
Expert Witness:
Expert has prepared for a law firm supporting material in a patent litigation case. The case never went to trial, so he did not act officially as an "expert witness".
Intota experts can serve as expert witnesses or litigation consultants offering expert testimony, expert advice, litigation support, forensic services, and related expert witness services. Expert can serve as an expert witness or litigation consultant in intellectual property (patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright), product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation, and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas involving Technology Innovation, Superconductors, Semiconductors, Ceramics, Glasses, and Medical Devices. Intota provides attorneys and legal professionals the opportunity to ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.
Industry Insights:
Expert provided marketing leadership while running the NIRA group at Technocon Corp., as well as when running American Electromedics (as President) and the Technology Group of Ferrofluidics (as Group President).
Expert serves as a resource to Intota Market Research Services for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to Technology Innovation, Superconductors, Semiconductors, Ceramics, Glasses, and Medical Devices. Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.
Additional Skills and Services:
Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection
He has experience locating vendors of injection-molded ceramic parts and materials for high temperature superconductor research. He has access to the following resources: personal contacts, catalogs and indexes.
Other Skills and Services
He launched a large number of new products and provided leadership in launching them, including specification, development, and launch through alpha and beta sites.
In addition to the above fields in the main technical sketch portion of his biography, Expert has experience in biomedical instrumentation and biotechnology. He consults for a venture capital partnership founded by the Harvard Medical School to exploit technologies developed at the school's complex.
Also, in 1981-2, he managed from the U.S. a U.K. division for a U.S.-based company. |
