Josué Sznitman

Born in Paris, France and having grown in the US and Switzerland, Josué Sznitman is a French, Israeli and Swiss national. His research focuses on respiratory transport phenomena and physiology, with a stronghold in inhalation aerosols and a deep interest in novel strategies for pulmonary drug delivery. He holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT (USA) and a doctoral degree from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Following his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania before being named a Fellow of the Science & Technology Council at Princeton University (USA). Sznitman joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in late 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2016. Sznitman has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and is a co-inventor on several patents. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Biomicrofluidics (AIP) and the Journal of Biomechanics (Elsevier) and serves as an Academic Editor for the journal PLoS One. Among his accolades, Sznitman was awarded the Young Investigator Award (2015) by the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) for a researcher under 40 and a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (Horizon 2020) and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Grant. Since joining the Technion, he has raised over $3 million in competitive funding and is the co-founder of Gradtrain Ltd., an online education consultancy.