Shenkar’s Higher Academic Council has appointed Prof. Zeev Weissman to head the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering commencing in the 2016/17 academic year.

Dr. Weissman serves as coordinator of the Electronic Communication program at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Tel Aviv University (1995), prior to which he was awarded a BSc from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and an MSc from Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Weissman specializes in researching optical components, and currently his main field of research is polarimetry for medical uses, such as measuring blood sugar levels.