Research Expertise

•	Flow control, hydrodynamic stability, aeroacoustics
•	Aero-optics, optical diagnostics, applied optics
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Education

•	Ph.D.	:	Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2005
•	M.S.	:	Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1996
•	B.S.	:	Physics and Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, 1991
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Employment

•	2005-date	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Research Assistant Professor
•	1997-04	:	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel: Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student Researcher
•	2001-02	:	Lenslet Labs, Ramat Gan, Israel: Physicist
•	1992-95	:	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel: Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student Researcher
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Honors and Awards

•	Excellence Scholarship, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1999-01
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Publications

•	Wesley, B., Zakharin, B., and Wygnanski, I., Flow Control on Modified GLAS II Airfoil (in preparation).
•	Chen, C., Zakharin B., and Wygnanski, I., On the Parameters Governing Fluidic Control of Separation and Circulation (in preparation).
•	Zakharin, B. and Stricker, J., Fourier Optics Theory of Multiple-Source Focusing Schlieren Imaging (in preparation).
•	Zakharin, B. and Stricker, J., Imaging and Focusing Properties of Conventional Schlieren (in preparation).
•	Zakharin, B., and Wygnanski, I., On the Mechanisms of Forced Separation and Reattachment of Flow to a Modified GLAS II Airfoil, AIAA J. (submitted).
•	Stricker, J., Zakharin, B., Stricker, J., Rosenblatt, F., and Hornick, I., Bidirectional Quantitative Color Schlieren, Optical Eng. 45, Paper 123604, 2006.
•	Zakharin, B. and Stricker, J., Schlieren System with Coherent Illumination for Quantitative Measurements, Appl. Opt. 43:4786-4795, 2004.
•	Zakharin, B., Stricker, J., and Toker, G., Laser-Induced Spark Schlieren Imaging, AIAA J. 37:1133-1135, 1999.
•	Stricker, J. and Zakharin, B., 3-D Turbulent Density Field Diagnostics by Tomographic Moire Technique, Exp. Fluids 23:76-85,1997.
•	Stricker, J., Censor, Y., and Zakharin, B., Inhomogeneous Turbulent Field Diagnostics by Distant-Dependent Tomographic Reconstruction Technique, J. Sci. Comput. 11:207-227, 1996.
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