Dr. Alexander Tesler is a researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Technion and a Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials from the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Israel Rubinstein. After graduation, he spent several years at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University studying mechanically durable omniphobic liquid-infused slippery surfaces. His scientific interests ranged from non-wettable ultra-repellent surfaces for preventing corrosion and biofouling, self-assembling monolayers, and plasmonic sensing to electrochemical methods for creating smart nanomaterials.

2024 –          Research Scientist, Institute of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. “Ultra-slippery, thermodynamically stable wetting-repellent surfaces”.

2019 – 2024  Postdoctoral fellow, Scientific Council for Chemistry, Institute of Corrosion and Surface Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ben Fabry and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Goldmann. Title; “Development of a multistage strategy for anti-biofouling coatings by combining non-toxic antifouling photocatalytic TiO₂ and TiO₂/WO₃ nanostructured films with fouling release slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLISP) approaches”. Prof. Dr. Patrik Schmuki. Title: “Metallic Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Approach Enabling Multiple-Band Light Harvesting to Enhance Photoelectrochemical Activity in the Visible Spectral Range”.

2018 – 2019  Visiting Scientist in the group of Prof. Xu Hou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. Title: “A Development of Electrochemical Methods to Create Metallic Liquid-Gating Membranes with High-Pressure and Temperature Stability, Controllable Gas/Liquid Selectivity, Enhanced Energy Efficiency, and Anti-Fouling Properties”.

2015 – 2017  Project Leader, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. In collaboration with Chemical Division, Nuclear Research Center Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Title: “Ultrasensitive Colorimetric Detection of Earlier Stages of Aluminum Corrosion Using Plasmonic Gold Nano Particles”.

2013 – 2015  Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), WYSS Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA. Advisor: Prof. Joanna Aizenberg. Title: “Formation of Mechanically Durable Omniphobic Surfaces as a Uniform Platform for Anti-icing, Anti-corrosive, Antibacterial, and Marine Anti-Biofouling Applications”.

2007 – 2008  Research Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Advisor: Prof. Israel Rubinstein. Title: “Solid-State Dewetting of Ultrathin Gold Films on Ceramic Substrates”.

2020 The Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI-2020) of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2017 Winner of the Soft Matter poster prize contest at the 31st European Conference for Colloid and Interface Society, (ECIS-31), Madrid, Spain. “Mimicking a lotus leaf ultra-hydrophobicity at home: a facile method to prepare mechanically durable superhydrophobic titanium”.

2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral research fellowship, WYSS Institute for Bioinspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA.

2008 – 2012 Weizmann Institute Ph.D. scholarship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

2003 Prize of “Tosaf Group” Company for Excellence in Polymer Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

2002, 2003 Chemical Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

2001, 2003 Technion President Award for Excellence, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

2022 Tesler, A.B., Goldmann, W.H., Prado, L., Khusniyarov, M.M., Thievessen, I., Mazare, A., Virtanen, S., Fischer, L., “Silicone- or fluorosilicone-coated solid substrates and process for their preparation”, Worldwide patent: WO2022207703A1.

2021 Tesler, A.B., Goldmann, W.H., Prado, L., Khusniyarov, M.M., Thievessen, I., Mazare, A., Virtanen, S., Fischer, L., “Silicone- or fluorosilicone-coated solid substrates and process for their preparation”, European Patent: EP4067448A1.

2015 Aizenberg, J., Hou, X., Khan, M., Tesler, A.B. “Fluid-based Gating Mechanism with Tunable Multiphase Selectivity and Antifouling Behavior”, Worldwide patent: WO2016130558 A1, US Patent: US10330218 B2.