Dr. Gur Mittelman

Gur Mittelman received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in Mechanical Engineering and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota. His fields of expertise include thermal sciences, renewable energy, and energy systems. Dr. Mittelman worked as an R&D engineer in several start-up companies and as the chief performance engineer of Shikun & Binui Renewable Energy including the Ashalim solar thermal power plant (PLOT A). In 2021, he became a full-time lecturer at Afeka.

Current Projects:

Agrivoltaics with solar spectral beam splitting.
Collaboration: Prof. Avi Kribus (TAU), Dr. Helena Vitoshkin (ARO)
Support: Israel Innovation Authority

The transition of Israel to renewable electricity.
Collaboration: Dr. Moshe Tshuva, Dr. Yossi Luzon, Dr. Ohad Eisenhandler

Energy supply to personal rapid transit (PRT) systems.
Collaboration: Prof. Erel Avineri

Linear Systems

Fluid Mechanics and Measurements Laboratory

Introduction to Renewable Energy

Air Conditioning and Heating

Renewable Energy

Energy Storage

Energy Efficiency

Topic: Agrivoltaics with planar spectral splitting
Role in Research: Principal Investigator (PI)
Co-Researchers: Prof. Avi Kribus (TAU) https://en-engineering.tau.ac.il/profile/kribus
Dr. Helena Vitoshkin (ARO)
Funded by: Israel Innovation Authority (“Nofar”): Applied Research in Academia
Year: 2023-2025

Topic: Open field agrivoltaics with an innovative spectral beam splitting solar collector
Role in Research: Researcher
Co-Researchers: Prof. Avi Kribus (TAU), Dr. Helena Vitoshkin (ARO), Prof. Ricardo Hernandez (North Carolina State University) innovative spectral beam splitting solar collector
Funded by: US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD)
Year: 2020-2023

Topic: Open field agrivoltaics with an innovative spectral beam splitting solar collector
Role in Research: Researcher
Co-Researchers: Prof. Avi Kribus (TAU), Dr. Helena Vitoshkin (ARO), Dr. Ido Halperin (Ariel University)
Funded by: Israel Ministry of Energy
Year: 2020-2023

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