The Division for Development and Public Relations     JOSEPH  ALMOG,    Status : ACTIVE Birth place : TEL AVIV Office Phone: 02-658-4558 Fax: 02-652-8250 E-Mail: almog@vms.huji.ac.il U.R.L: http://chemistry.huji.ac.il/casali/almog.htm   Department Faculty   INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY FACULTY OF SCIENCE Dept. Description APPLIED CHEMISTRY (CASALI CENTER) FACULTY OF SCIENCE Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1973 D.I.C. IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON 1974   Academic Position   Year VISITING PROFESSOR 2000   External Academic Positions Research Fellow, Imperial College, London, 1972-73; Research Assoc., M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, 1973-74; Visiting Prof., Tel Aviv Univ., 1992, 1997; Visiting Prof., Faculty of Law, Hebrew Univ., 1992-98.   Research Interests Forensic chemistry. Diagnostic methods for field work. Explosives detection and identification. Physico-chemical methods for latent fingerprint visualization. Unequivocal methods for body identification. Chemical processes occurring on human skin. Organic synthetic chemistry.   Research Projects Identification of the improvised explosive urea nitrate in post blast Application of nanotechnology to fingerprint visualization: Selective recognition of ions by vasarenes. Non-traditional approach to the detection of fingerprints. (with   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year Selective complexation between a novel bowl-shaped molecule and 2010 Ninhydrin thiohemiketals: Basic research towards improved 2010 Identification of handling of firearms/trace metal detection. 2009 A feasibility study on the use of double-sided adhesive coated 2009 The reaction between phloroglucinol and vic polycarbonyl 2009 Colorimetric detection of explosives. In: 2009 Urea nitrate, an exceptionally easy-to-make improvised 2009 Lawsone: A novel reagent for the detection of latent fingermarks 2008 Nitration using simple nitro species: Nitroguanidine and EGDN. 2008 Dual fingerprint reagents with enhanced sensitivity: 5-Methoxy- 2008 Protection of the carbonyl groups in 1,2-indanedione: Propellane 2008 Syntheses of cyclic disulfides using didecyldimethylammonium 2008 Application of nanoparticles for the enhancement of latent 2007 Recovery and detection of urea nitrate in traces. 2007 Structure elucidation of pigments that are formed in the 2007 Rapid and efficient synthesis of symmetrical alkyl disulfides 2007 Fingerprint reagents with dual action: Color and fluorescence. 2007 Forensic science and terrorism. 2007 Urea nitrate and nitrourea: Powerful regioselective aromatic 2006 Forensic science does not start in the lab: The concept of 2006 Identification of firearms handling by the [Fe(PDT)3]+2 complex: 2005 Decomposition of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is an entropic 2005 Genipin, a novel fingerprint reagent with colorimetric and 2005 A field diagnostic test for the improvised explosive urea 2005 Chemical development of latent fingerprints: 1,2-indandione has 2001 Visualization of sebaceous fingerprints on fired cartridge 1998   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem