Surfaces with pores: hydrodynamic lubrication

Leonid Burstein is a Senior Lecturer and core stuff member of the Quality Assurance Department at Kinneret Academic College. He also works as a Lecturer at large at the ORT Braude College, in the Biotechnology and Software Engineering Departments, and teaches at Technioon at a number of other universities and high schools of Western and Lower Galilee. Following a MA study in thermophysics at Lomonosov Technological Institute at Odessa, Ukraine, and a doctorate study in National Research Institute for Physical and Radio Engineering Measurements at Moscow, Russia, Burstein obtained his PhD in physical properties of materials from the Heat/Mass Transfer Institute of the Belarus Academy of Science, Minsk, in 1974. After a short period of work in Russia and Belarus, Burstein started his career at the Piston Ring Institute in Odessa, Ukraine, where he served from 1974 to 1990 as Head of Projects and Head of CAD/CAM group. Since 1991, he began to work at the Technion – IIT, Israel, at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the Tribology Library, and, after this, in the Quality Assurance and Reliability Program at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. He also worked at the Technion Research and Development Foundation as a Principal Researcher in funded projects in various areas such as diesel tribology and environment control. He also taught various courses at the Haifa University, at the Technion, at the Kinnereth Academic College and elsewhere. He is teaching a MATLAB course for biotechnologists and mathematicians at ORT Braude College. He is an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for a number of international journals. Dr L. Burstein is also the author of several patents and has published four chapters in scientific books, and his achievements have been reported in more than 70 publications in leading scientific journals.