Assistant Prof. Dvir Harris

Faculty:

Chemistry

Main energy field:

Solar energy harvesting, transduction and conversion in natural and bio-inspired photosynthetic assemblies

About:

PostDoc – 2019-2024 – MIT, Chemistry

PhD – 2015-2019 – Technion, Energy (GTEP)

MSc – 2013-2015 – Technion, Chemistry

BSc – 2011-2013 – Technion, Molecular Biochemistry

Roles, Chairs, prizes…

MIT-Kalaniyot post-doctoral fellow, 2023/2024

Co-chaired Photosynthesis GRS meeting, 2023

VATAT Post-doctoral fellowship for Quantum Sciences 2019/2020

Zuckerman Scholarship Post-doctoral Program in STEM Leadership, 2019/2020

Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) Post-doctoral fellowship 2019/2020

Schulich PhD fellowship 2016-2018

Research Area in Energy:

Solar energy conversion; Photovoltaics:
Elucidating and implementing nature’s photosynthetic designing principles of scaffold-pigment architecture

Selected Publications:

Hartmann, Volker^‡, Harris, Dvir^‡, et al. “Improved quantum efficiency in an engineered light harvesting/photosystem II super-complex for high current density biophotoanodes.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8.29 (2020): 14463-14471.

Harris, Dvir, et al. “Energetic robustness to large scale structural fluctuations in a photosynthetic supercomplex.” Nature communications 14.1 (2023): 4650.

Cesana, Paul T., Page, Claire G., Harris, Dvir, et al. “Photoenzymatic catalysis in a new light: Gluconobacter “ene”-reductase conjugates possessing high-energy reactivity with tunable low-energy excitation.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 144.38 (2022): 17516-17521.

Full list can be found here:www.dvirharrislab.com/publications