Doron Aurbach

Doron Aurbach was born in 1952 in Kfar Saba

Doron Aurbach was born in 1952 in Kfar Saba to parents who survived the Holocaust and fought in Israel's War of Independence. He grew up in Ramat Gan and attended Blich High School.

He served in the Golani reconnaissance unit and fought west of the Suez Canal in the Yom Kippur War. In the early 1980s he became religious and studied at a yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

He earned his BSc, MSc and PhD in chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, finishing the PhD in 1983. In parallel he completed a degree in chemical engineering at the Technion, then did postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University from 1983 to 1985.

In 1985 he joined Bar-Ilan University and founded its electrochemistry group, becoming a full professor in 1996. He chaired the chemistry department from 2001 to 2005 and the Israel Labs Accreditation Authority from 2010 to 2016. His research covers lithium, sodium and magnesium batteries, supercapacitors and water desalination.

He founded and leads the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion. He is married to Sara, a children's author, and they live in Bnei Brak with 7 children.