Elad Koren is heading the Nanoscale Electronics group at the faculty of Materials Science & Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests are focused on nanoscale (opto)electronics and electromechanical properties of 2-dimensional (2D) layered materials. Before joining the Technion Elad served as a principle investigator in the Physics of Nanoscale Systems group of the Science & Technology department at IBM Research–Zurich. Elad holds BSc in Biophysics and MSc in Physical Chemistry with the emphasis on photovoltaics, both are from Bar Ilan University, Israel. He received his PhD degree in Engineering, Physical Electronics from the Tel Aviv University, Israel.