ICE Issue 9

57 The Israel Chemist and Chemical Engineer Issue 9 · January 2023 · Tevet 5783 Report The 2021 Tenne Family Prize in memory of Lea Tenne for Nanoscale Sciences was awarded to Prof. Menny Shalom of the Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev for developing synthetic methodologies of carbon nitride-like materials and using them for photoelectrochemical cells and other energyrelated applications. Menny was born in 1979 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He received his BSc in Chemistry in 2007 from BarIlan University, followed by MSc and PhD under Arie Zaban at the same University, researching quantum-dot sensitized solar cells. As a Minerva fellow for his postdoc, he then joined Prof. Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPI), Germany. In 2013-2016 he was a group leader in MPI and, since the end of 2016, he has become an Associate Professor at the Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev. His group synthesizes new materials for energy conversion applications, mainly photo-electrochemical cells and electrocatalysts. Menny’s group has published more than 50 papers in excellent journals. His list of awards includes the Wolf Foundation Award for an Excellent MSc student (2009), Wolf Foundation Award for Excellent PhD students (2012), ICS prize for an Outstanding PhD student (2012), Israel Vacuum Society Award (2018), Toronto Prize for Excellence Thankarajan of Ariel University (with Alex Szpilman and EK), Ilia Tutunnikov of the Weizmann Institute (with Reshef Tenne and EK), and Jonathan Tzadikov of the Ben-Gurion University (with Menny Shalom and EK). The Golik Prize to Shahar Dery of the Hebrew University (in his absence to Efrat Shukrun-Farrell with Uri Golik, Eran Golik, and EK). Third row: the Tenne Prize to Menny Shalom (with Reshef Tenne and EK), the Adama Prize for Technological Innovation to Raz Jelinek of Ben-Gurion University (in his absence to Michael Meijler, Itsik Bar-Nahum, Chief Chemist of R&D at Adama and EK), the Amir Shahar Prize for Excellence in Administrative Management to Sarah Amzallag of the Weizmann Institute (with Dani Shahar, Reshef Tenne and EK), the Dalia Cheshnovsky Prize for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching to Edna Friedman of the Horev Ulpana in Jerusalem and the Tehilla-Evelina de Rothschild Secondary School (with Dani Shahar, Ori Cheshnovsky, Dorit Taitelbaum and EK), Fourth row: the Dalia Cheshnovsky Prize for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching to Orit Weinstock from the Har-Tuv high school (with Dani Shahar, Ori Cheshnovsky, Dorit Taitelbaum and EK), the Itan Peled Prize for Excellent Chemistry Project to Tahel Amzaleg from Ort Kramim, Karmiel (with Dorit Taitelbaum, Nehama Peled, Michael Peled, chemistry teacher Mirit Kramer, and EK), the Itan Peled Prize to Avishag Samara from the Gymnasia Realit, Rishon Lezion (with Dorit Taitelbaum, Nehama Peled, Michael Peled, and EK), the Green Chemical Industry Prize to OR Recycling Park awarded to Nadav Ziv (with Alex Szpilman and EK). Fifth row: the Honorable Member of the ICS to Shimon Shatzmiller of Ariel University (with Alex Szpilman and EK), the ICS Gold Medal to Lia Addadi and Steve Weiner of the Weizmann Institute, the ICS Prize of Excellence to Leeor Kronik of the Weizmann Institute. Sixth row: the ICS Excellent Young Scientist Prize to Amnon Bar-Shir of the Weizmann Institute, the ICS Excellent Young Scientist Prize to Roman Dobrovetsky of Tel Aviv University. Seventh row: the best poster awards. Photographs by Allon Zaslansky. in Research (2018), ICS Excellent Young Scientist Prize (2020) and an ERC starting grant (2019). Menny’s research focuses on several fundamental and applied scientific topics ranging from new synthetic methodologies for 2D metal-free materials, sustainable solar-to-fuel conversion, and the development of new materials and concepts for clean fuel production, e.g., hydrogen, by using photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) and electrocatalysts. His group aims at understanding the structure-property relationships of novel materials. For instance, they rationally design synthetic processes, investigate reaction mechanisms. They study the properties of synthetic metal-free materials, which contain only carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and boron (CNXs, X = P, S, or B). They employ these materials for photocatalytic and photo-electrochemical reactions. Alternatively, they use them for ceramics based on transitionmetals as electrocatalysts or co-catalysts in PECs. Menny’s research impacts renewable and sustainable energy production by studying the modes of action of photoactive materials and their behavior. Prof. Shalom’s group has tackled the issue of manipulating the materials’ final properties by the

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