Hanna Dodiuk

Hanna Dodiuk was born in 1948 in Kraków

Dodiuk was born in 1948 in Kraków, Poland, to the Auerbach family. Her parents were held in Auschwitz and survived as part of Schindler's list. The family moved to Israel a year later and settled in Haifa, where she attended the Alliance high school.

She served in the intelligence branch of the Israeli Air Force. She earned a chemistry degree from Tel Aviv University in 1970 and a master's degree with honors in 1973. She completed a doctorate under Edward Kosower, lectured at Tel Aviv University, and did postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen.

In 1979 she joined Rafael as an engineer. From 1991 to 1997 she ran its materials and processes unit, the first woman in such a senior role in Israel's defense industries. She was president of the Israeli Polymer and Plastics Society from 1998 to 2000.

She taught at the Technion and then at Shenkar College, where she headed the polymer engineering department from 2006 to 2019 and has led its master's program since 2020. She edited 2 books and holds patents, including a coating that repels ice. In 2017 she joined Israel's Council for Higher Education.

She has been married to engineering professor Shmuel Kenig since 1995 and has 2 daughters from her first marriage. She lives in Haifa.