Maytal Caspary Toroker

Maytal Caspary Toroker is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. She is recognized for her significant contributions in the field of computational materials science, particularly in its applications to catalysis, charge transport, and energy conversion devices.

Early life and education Maytal was born in Israel. She completed her BA degree in molecular biochemistry (2004) from the Department of Chemistry at Technion.

Research and career Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (2023) After receiving her Ph.D., she started working with Prof. Emily A. Carter at Princeton University during the period of 2010–13, funded by the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Union. In 2013, she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, as an assistant professor, and she is currently working as a professor.

Her research at Technion mainly involves development of density functional theory (DFT) and its application. She has extensively worked on developing a method for charge transport calculation through heterostructures using wave propagation method. This work was published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and was featured on the front cover of Issue 11, 2017. She developed a method to calculate the band edge positions using first principles quantum mechanics calculations.

Currently she is the chair of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action on Computational materials sciences for efficient water splitting with nanocrystals from abundant elements . She is in the editorial advisory board of the journal Advanced Theory and Simulation, Wiley

Awards and honours

Alexander Goldberg Research Prize (2021) L'Oréal-Unesco-Israel Award (2010) New England Fund (2009)