Title: Reactivity of small hydrocarbons on Pd-Cu alloy nanoparticles supported on thin silica films

Biography: Prof. Asscher received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) in Israel in 1981, then spent three years as a post-doc fellow in The University of California at Berkeley. He then joined the Faculty of The Institute of Chemistry at HUJI in 1984 and became a full professor in 1997. Prof. Asscher has been the Chair of the Institute of Chemistry between 2001-2004 and then a Vice Dean for research of the Faculty of Science at HUJI between 2005-2008. In 2004, Professor Asscher was nominated among "Scientific American Top 50" list of top research leaders for his innovative research on laser ablation induced surface patterning. Prof. Asscher's research interests today include model charging of objects in the interstellar space that behave as nano-capacitor, plasmonic-induced surface photochemistry, and ultra-high vacuum model heterogeneous catalysis studies.