Roee Asher

Roee Asher is a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering at Tel Aviv University, working under the supervision of Dr. Lee A. Burton. His research focuses on electrides, materials in which electrons localise in interstitial sites and behave as anions. He uses first-principles methods, ranging from hybrid-functional and many-body electronic-structure calculations to lattice dynamics, to establish reliable approaches for modelling these materials and to understand their electronic structure and stability. This builds on his M.Sc. work on unique structure prototypes, which gave him a strong background in crystallography and the large-scale analysis of materials data. Roee holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tel Aviv University. Outside the lab, he is a black-belt judoka and a former member of the Israeli National Judo Team.