Brian Rosen

Brian Rosen is the Vice Dean for International Affairs in the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University, an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the head of the Energy Materials Laboratory. The laboratory specializes in the design of novel ceramic catalysts for fuel cells (PEMFC, AFC, H2/NH3-SOFC), and synthetic fuel production (H2, NH3, syngas) via thermochemical and electrochemical routes. The Rosen lab investigates ways to modulate catalyst activity by tuning the metal-ceramic interface via multi-scale defect engineering, strain engineering, solid-state phase separations, and electronic structure modulation. Rosen was named a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellow in 2010. His work was the basis for a U.S.-based startup company, Dioxide Materials, which develops industrial CO2 electrolyzers. He was a co-founder for the Israeli startup Fonto Power (acquired by SolarEdge in 2023) which developed SOFC-Battery hybrid systems. Rosen recently co-founded PyroH2, a natural gas pyrolysis company based on his multiphase catalyst design. He received the Young Innovator Award in Nanocatalysis Research by Springer in 2021, the Climate Solutions Breakthrough Research Prize in 2023, and was elected as a Senior Member to the U.S. National Academy of Inventors in 2025.