Liraz Chai
I am an associate professor at the Institute of Chemistry in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Tel Aviv university, and I completed both my master’s and PhD degrees in Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science. My PhD focused on the intermolecular interactions between polymers- and charge- bearing surfaces. For my postdoctoral studies I switched gears to microbiology at Harvard University with Prof. Roberto Kolter, where I got familiarized with bacterial biofilms. My current research combines Biochemistry, Soft Matter, Biophysics and Microbiology - all applied to an interdisciplinary research of bacterial biofilms. My major interest in biofilms include the properties and assembly of extracellular matrix biopolymers, as well extracellular matrix - associated biomineralization processes.
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