Raphael Semiat is a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He holds the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Chair in science, engineering and management. He is currently the director of the Grand Water Research Institute and in charge of the Rabin Desalination Laboratory within the GWRI. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technion in 1973 and obtained his D.Sc. dissertation on MED Desalination in 1978 at the Technion.
Prof. Semiat is an expert in separation processes with industrial experience in IMI(TAMI), a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals Ltd, where he served as a senior research engineer and as the head of the Heat and Mass Transfer Engineering Research Department.
Prof. Semiat joined the Chemical Engineering Department, Technion, in 1990. His main research interests are: Process Development; Separation Processes with emphasis on Desalination. Of particular relevance are the research subjects associated with membranes processes and membrane fouling prevention. He has published more than one hundred papers in scientific journals and similar number in conference proceedings. Most of his current research subjects are associated with the Israeli industry.