Dr. Refael Gatt, the founder and the inventor of QDM, has over 30 years of experience in the high-tech industry and academia. He has acquired expertise in R&D management and innovation in the fields of superconductors, semiconductors and particle detection. Prior to QDM, Dr. Gatt held various positions in leading companies in the energy, IR and optics fields, and research positions in leading research institutes such as I.B.M watson, Yorktown heights. Dr. Gatt holds a Ph.D in Physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. He received the Young Author Award from the European Physical Society, and has authored more than 15 publications in international journals.
Roger David Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA. Kornberg is a professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is an expert in synthesis methods as well as structural studies. Kornberg has served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the following companies: Cocrystal Discovery Inc (Chairman), ChromaDex Corporation (Chairman), StemRad, Ltd, Oplon Ltd (Chairman), and Pacific Biosciences. Kornberg has also been a director for the following companies: OphthaliX Inc., Protalix BioTherapeutics, Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
Dadi reached the top positions of the business and technology world, as a senior executive in the global management of Intel Corporation. In his last role at Intel, as a Chief Product Officer, he boosted the company's revenues from $33 billion in 2009 to $52 billion in 2013 and managed 35,000 employees worldwide. He was named a candidate for Intel’s CEO. At Intel Dadi led several projects all the way from science to business. Among them were the development of the Pentium processor, the laptop computer, and the data center hardware. He earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology, and in 2023 he was awarded an Honorary Ph.D. from the Technion.
Anat Pilzer-Somech is an experienced commercial lawyer and an expert on Corporate governance. Since 2015 Anat is the Chief Legal Advisor of the Israeli Public-Companies Association and is a Senior Lecturer for the Directors’ course at the Israeli Management Center (HAMIL). Adv. Pilzer-Somech also serves as a board member of several Israeli companies.
Professor Robert Joseph Cava is a solid-state chemist at Princeton University, where he holds the title Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry. Previously, Prof. Cava worked as a staff scientist at Bell labs from 1979–1996. His research covers Superconductors, investigates topological insulators, semimetals, frustrated magnets and thermoelectrics.
Prof. Cava earned his B.Sc, M.Sc, Engineer and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, 36 of them in Nature and 8 of them in Science. These papers have been cited over 30,000 times, including his seminal work on YBCO, which has been cited almost 1500 times.
Roald Hoffmann received his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981 for his work on the course of chemical reactions. Recently he desinged, together with others, a room temperature superconductor at high pressure. This material (LaH10) was subsequently synthesized and showed room temperature superconductivity at a pressure of 2M atmospheres. Their pioneering work shows that such materials ("The holy grail of solid state physics") are practically attainable.He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society. Hoffmann is best known for introducing quantum mechanical ideas to organic, inorganic, and solid state chemistry. Hoffmann's research and interests have been in the electronic structure of stable and unstable molecules, and in the study of transition states in reactions. He has investigated the structure and reactivity of both organic and inorganic molecules, and examined problems in organo-metallic and solid-state chemistry. Hoffman has developed semiempirical and nonempirical computional tools such as the extended Huckel method for determining molecular orbitals.
Bernard Raveau has Founded CRISMAT, the CNRS-ENSICAEN Laboratory for Crystallography and Materials in 1986 and CNRT Matériaux (National Research Centre of Technology for Materials) in 2000. He is a specialist of crystal chemistry of transition metal oxides. He is a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Member of Académie des Sciences, Member of the Indian Academy, Member of the Academia Europea and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He has authored 1,400 journal publications mainly devoted to high Tc superconducting cuprates, CMR manganites, magnetic and thermoelectric cobaltates and transition metal phosphates.
Formerly Israel's National Security Adviser and Head of National Security Council, today Dr. Hulata is the Chairman of Halman-Aldubi Technologies and a board member of several start-ups. Before that Eyal held highly senior technological positions in the Prime Minister's office, over 23 years. Dr. Hulata holds a BA in physics and math from the Hebrew University, Israel, an MSc. and PhD in physics from Tel Aviv University, Israel and an MCMPA degree from the Kennedy School in Harvard.
Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel is the head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University, where he also heads the annual international Cyber Security conference.
Ben-Israel is one of Israel's top experts on Space, Cyber and technological related security.
He served as the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development, under the auspices of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space of Israel. In his IDF service Ben-Israel was ranked General and served as head of the military administration for the development of advanced technologies.
Prof. Ben-Israel holds a PhD in Philosophy and a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Refael Gatt, the founder and the inventor of QDM, has over 30 years of experience in the high-tech industry and academia. He has acquired expertise in R&D management and innovation in the fields of superconductors, semiconductors and particle detection. Prior to QDM, Dr. Gatt held various positions in leading companies in the energy, IR and optics fields, and research positions in leading research institutes such as I.B.M watson, Yorktown heights. Dr. Gatt holds a Ph.D in Physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. He received the Young Author Award from the European Physical Society, and has authored more than 15 publications in international journals.
Dr. Gili Yaniv leads the innovative superconductor research and development at QDM, converting the quantum mechanics theories into room temperature superconductors.
Gili graduated her Ph.D. in the field of materials science and engineering from Ben-Gurion university. Following her Ph.D., Gili joined the faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science as a postdoctoral research fellow. During her Ph.D. she has conducted multidisciplinary research, integrating experimental techniques for material characterization with theoretical calculations. She specialized in a wide range of crystallographic methods studying the atomic structure of unique materials, including superconductors.
A senior scientist with over 50 years of experience in materials synthesis, phase transitions, crystal growth, non-linear optics, semiconductors, and detectors for nuclear irradiation. Dr. Rusian spent 27 years at the Institute for Physical Research at Yerevan State University at the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. In Israel, Dr. Rusian was a Senior Physicist at Orbotech Medical Solutions and at GE Nuclear Medical.
Following a rich semiconductors career of 35 years, culminating as VP at Intel and at Qualcomm, today Gil acts as a General Partner at J-Ventures VC Fund; Strategic Advisor at GigCapital Global; and advises and performs technological and executive roles with startups. Mr. Frostig earned his BSEE from the Technion, Israel.
Former VP and Head of the South District of the Israel Electric Corporation, where he worked for over 27 years. Kobi's responsibilities included building, maintaining and operating the power grid in central and southern Israel, while providing service to 1.2 million customers. The total district budget at peak was $ 350M, with approximately 1,500 employees. Kobi holds a B.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, a M.Sc. and Ph.D in Industrial and Management Engineering, from Ben Gurion University, Israel.
A mathematician and lecturer at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Open University of Israel, with a wide background in physics and electrical engineering, machine learning, quantum computing, and quantum information. Sergey earned his BSc. in mathematics from the Technion, Israel and an MSc. in mathematics from Haifa University, Israel.
Israel Aerospace Industries.
Project manager ,foreign engineer liaison, Operating officer.
Captain of S.W.A.T team.