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Last modified: July, 2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Christina Belalov (Dlugy)
Affiliation: SCE - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, P.O.B. 950, 84100.
E-mail: dlugc@sce.ac.il.
1. Academic education
2006-2008 M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer-Sheva,Israel. Thesis: “Studies of inactivation and transport of viruses
in porous media with a new nanoscale tool - labeled bacteriophages”
(Advisor: Ph.D. V. Gitis).
2002-2004 B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, specialization in Biotechnology Sami Shamoon
College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel Project: “Baker's yeast catalyzed
asymmetric reduction in glycerol”.
2. Academic employment
2006-present Teacher, Chemical Engineering Department, Sami Shamoon College of
Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
2006-present Instruction, Chemical Engineering Department, Sami Shamoon College of
Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

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3. Academic research and development activities
3.1. Previous research and development activities
2006-2008 Inactivation and transport of bacteriophages in porous media
2004-2006 Green oxidations (chemical and biological) of alcohols
3.2. Present research and development activities
Since 2004 Research Associate, Centre for Green Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
Department, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
2010-2014 Characteristics and study of Bacterial biofilms
4. Grants and awards
4.1. Awards
2006 The “Teva” Award for excellent student
2005 The Chemical Engineering Department Award for excellent students
2004 The Chemical Engineering Department Award for excellent students
5. List of publications
5.1. Peer reviewed papers
1. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, C., Mordechaiev, I., Sliman, T., Tavor, D. Glycerol-glycerol
triacetate as reaction mediums. Canadian J. of Chem., 2014;92(3);240-242.
2. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, C., Tavor, D. Baker's yeast catalyzed asymmetric reduction of
prochiral ketones in different reaction mediums. Org. Commun. 2013;6(1);1-11.
3. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, C., Karanet, A. Tavor, D. Sustainable one-pot synthesis of
cinnamyl acetate in triacetin. Tetrahedron Letters,2012, Volume 53, Issue 34, 22, Pages
4565-4567.
4. Gitis, V., Dlugy, C., Ziskind, G., Sladkevich, S., Lev, O., Fluorescent clays—Similar
transfer with sensitive detection, Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 174, Issue 1,
2011, Pages 482-488.

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5. Tavor, D., Gefen, I., Dlugy, C., Wolfson, A. Transfer-hydrogenations of nitrobenzne
using glycerol as solvent and hydrogen donor. Synth. Commun. 2011;41(22);3409-
3416.
6. Wolfson, A., Azran, E., Dlugy, C., Tavor, D. Base catalyzed glycerolysis of benzyl
acetate, Lett. in Org. Chem. 2011;8(7);504-508.
7. Tavor, D., Sheviev, O., Dlugy, C., Wolfson, A. Transfer-hydrogenations of
benzaldehyde using glycerol as solvent and hydrogen source. Canadian J. Chem. 2010;
88(4):305-308.
8. Wolfson, A., Atyya, A., Dlugy, C., Tavor, D. Glycerol triacetate as solvent and acyl
donor in the production of isoamyl acetate with Candida Antarctica lipase B.
Bioprocess and Biosystems Eng. 2010;33(3):363.
9. Wolfson, A., Dlugy, C., Tavor, D., Shotland, Y., Glycerol as solvent and hydrogen
donor in transfer hydrogenation–dehydrogenation reactions, Tetrahedron Letters,
Volume 50, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 5951-5953
10. Wolfson, A., Litvak, G., Dlugy, C., Shotland Y., Tavor, D. Employing crude glycerol
from biodiesel production as an alternative green reaction medium. Industrial Crops
and Products 2009;30(1):78-81.
11. Aronino A., Dlugy C., Arkhangelsky E., Shandalov S., Oron G., Brenner A. and Gitis
V., Removal of viruses from surface water and secondary effluents by sand filtration,
Water Research, 2008.
12. Wolfson A., Haddad N., Dlugy C., Tavor D., and Shotland Y., Baker's yeast catalyzed
asymmetric reduction of methyl acetoacetate in glycerol containing systems, Org.
Commun. 2008;1(2):9-16.
13. Wolfson A. and Dlugy C., Palladium Catalyzed Heckand Suzuki Coupling in Glycerol,
Chem. Papers, 61, 228, 2007.
14. Wolfson A., Dlugy C., Tavor D., Blumenfeld J. and Shotland Y., Baker's yeast
catalyzed asymmetric reduction in glycerol, tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2006, 17, 2043.
15. Wolfson A., Dlugy C. and Shotland Y., Glycerol as a green solvent for high product
yields and selectivities, Environ. Chem. Lett. 5, 67, 2006.
16. Dlugy C. and Wolfson A., Lipase catalyse glycerolysis for kinetic resolution of
racemates, Bioprocess and Biosystems Eng. 5, 67, 2006.

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5.2 Patents
Wolfson, A., Tavor, D., Dlugy, C., Shotland, Y. Employing glycerol in transfer
hydrogenation-dehydrogenation reactions, US 61/137,239.
6. Research Interest
Green Chemistry, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Bio- and Chemo-Catalysis,
Asymmetric synthesis.
7. Courses taught
Since 2006 B.Sc. program: Introduction to chemical engineering 1-3, Fundamentals of
Mass Transfer, Fundamentals of Biochemical Engineering, Unit Operation of
Chemical Engineering Lab, Bioreactors and Scale up Lab. SCE - Sami Shamoon
College of Engineering, Israel.