Prof. Yael Mishael
Soil and Water Department
Faculty
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- Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Public Health, Medicine & Dentistry
- Faculty of Law
- Humanities
- Mathematics & Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences, Social Work & Social Welfare
Prof. Oren Ostersetzer-Biran
Director, Center for Sustainability
Prof. Shahal Abbo
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Dryland farming; Grain legumes
Prof. Hagit Affek
Institute of Earth Sciences
Paleoclimate; Isotope geochemistry
Prof. Amotz Agnon
Institute of Earth Sciences
Renewable energy; Energy security; Earthquake preparedness
Prof. Einat Aharonov
Institute of Earth Science
Natural gas
Prof. Alon Angert
Exact Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences
Biogeochemistry; Carbon cycle; Soil Respiration; Plant productivity; Oxygen; Stable isotopes
Dr. Moshe (Koko) Armon
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Micha Asscher
Institute of Chemistry
Global warming; Carbon dioxide recycling/hydrogenation; Heterogeneous catalytic reactions; Bimetallic and trimetallic nanoparticles catalysts
Dr. Tamar Avin-Wittenberg
Plant and Environmental Sciences
Plant yield, metabolomics, autophagy, abiotic stress
Dr. Nufar Avni
Dept. of Geography
Environmental policies; Urban autonomy; C40; ICLEI
Dr. Uri Banin
Faculty of Science, Institute of Chemistry
Alternative energy; Solar fuels; Green hydrogen; Photocatalysis; Air and water purification
Prof. Rotem Bar-Or
Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography
Urban climate change and mitigation; Smart Sustainable Cities; Technology and Urban Well-being
Dr. Yael Bar-Zeev
Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Health Promotion; Healthy Cities; Tobacco Control
Dr. Reut Barak Weekes
Glocal International Development Program
Sustainable agriculture; Technological adoption; Community Development
Prof. Rubin Baruch
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Integrated Weed Management (IWM); Environmental fate of pesticides in plants, Soil and water; Environmentally friendly and novel herbicide formulations
Prof. Shimshon Belkin
Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences
Biosensors; Pollution; Water quality
Prof. Asher Ben-Arieh
Social Work
Children's definitions and interactions with their environment; Impact on children's subjective well-being
Prof. Ofra Benny
School of Pharmacy, Medicine
Biodegradable materials and nanomaterials; Polymers and organic materials
Prof. Guy Bloch
Natural Sciences; Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Honey bees, Bumble bees, Pollination, Insect physiology
Prof. Ido Braslavsky
Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition
Food preservation; Cryopreservation and ice binding proteins; Food printing for alternative meat
Prof. Tomer Broude
Law and International Relations
Trade; Investment; Human rights; Fossil fuels; Corporate Social Responsibility
Prof. Saul Burdman
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Phytobacteriology; Basic and applied aspects of plant-microbe interactions; Novel environmentally-friendly approaches to promote plant health
Prof. Benny Chefetz
Soil and Water Sciences
Physico-chemical processes of organic pollutants occurring in water, reclaimed wastewater, soils and sediments
Prof. Yona Chen
Department of Soil and Water, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Waste water recycling; Solid waste recycling; Developmen of novel fertilizers
Prof. Galit Cohen Blankshtain
Public Policy and Government; Geography
Public participation; locality; NGOs
Dr. Moshe Coll
Agriculture, Entomology
Biological Control; Ecosystem Services; Integrated Pest management; Species diversity, sustainable pest control
Dr. Guy Dagan
Institute of Earth Sciences
Climate change; Cloud feedback; Aerosol-cloud interaction
Dr. Uri Davidovich
Archaeology, Humanities
Landscape Archaeology; Ancient subsistence strategies; Human-environment interactions; Agricultural systems; Past/present faunal diversity
Dr. Niv De Malach
Faculty of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Sciences
Ecology, Plant, Biodiversity
Dr. Benjamin Drenger
Medicine
Volatile anesthetics; Elimination from the atmosphere
Prof. Simon Emmanuel
Institute of Earth Sciences
Water resources; Carbon sequestration
Dr. Yehouda Enzel
Institute of Earth Sciences
Geomorphology; Fluvial change; Dead Sea; Dust and loess; Landform evolution
Prof. Amir Erez
Racah Institute of Physics
Theoretical ecology; Biodiversity; Ecosystem collapse; Population dynamics; Evolutionary dynamics; Host-microbiome interactions; Environmental microbial communities; Consumer-resource models
Prof. Eyal Ert
Department of Environmental Economics and Management
Household food waste; ESG (Environmental Social, Governance) investments; Social Dilemmas; Risk taking; Trust;
Dr. Leor Eshed
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Prof. Lioz Etgar
Chemistry
Solar cells and related materials
Prof. Eran Feitelson
Environmental Policy, Social Science
Prof. Daniel Felsenstein
Geography
Agent based modeling for public health; Pandemic containment; Spatio-temporal modeling of pandemic contagion; Evaluation of natural amenities in spatial hedonic house pricing
Dr. Gali Fichman
Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment/The Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition
bioinspired materials, biomaterials, peptides, self-assembly, hydrogels, scaffolds, drug-delivery
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Prof. Yael Mishael
Soil and Water Department
Prof. Shahal Abbo
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Dryland farming; Grain legumes
Dr. Moshe (Koko) Armon
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Rubin Baruch
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Integrated Weed Management (IWM); Environmental fate of pesticides in plants, Soil and water; Environmentally friendly and novel herbicide formulations
Prof. Asher Ben-Arieh
Social Work
Children's definitions and interactions with their environment; Impact on children's subjective well-being
Prof. Ido Braslavsky
Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition
Food preservation; Cryopreservation and ice binding proteins; Food printing for alternative meat
Prof. Saul Burdman
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Phytobacteriology; Basic and applied aspects of plant-microbe interactions; Novel environmentally-friendly approaches to promote plant health
Prof. Benny Chefetz
Soil and Water Sciences
Physico-chemical processes of organic pollutants occurring in water, reclaimed wastewater, soils and sediments
Prof. Yona Chen
Department of Soil and Water, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Waste water recycling; Solid waste recycling; Developmen of novel fertilizers
Dr. Moshe Coll
Agriculture, Entomology
Biological Control; Ecosystem Services; Integrated Pest management; Species diversity, sustainable pest control
Dr. Niv De Malach
Faculty of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Sciences
Ecology, Plant, Biodiversity
Prof. Eyal Ert
Department of Environmental Economics and Management
Household food waste; ESG (Environmental Social, Governance) investments; Social Dilemmas; Risk taking; Trust;
Dr. Leor Eshed
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Dr. Gali Fichman
Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment/The Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition
bioinspired materials, biomaterials, peptides, self-assembly, hydrogels, scaffolds, drug-delivery
Dr. Tamar Friedlander
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Climate change; Flowering regulation; Population genetics; Self-incompatibility; Mathematical modeling
Dr. José Grünzweig
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Applied ecology, Biogeochemistry, Climate change ecology, Land management, Carbon sequestration, Forest ecology
Prof. Yitzhak Hadar
Plant pathology and microbiology
Biomass; Lignin; Mushroom, White rot fungi, Bioremediation
Prof. Zvi Hayouka
Institute of Biochemistry Food Science and Nutrition
Antibiotic resistance, non antibiotic antimicrobial agents, bioactive packaging
Dr. David Helman
Soil and Water Sciences, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Remote sensing; Crop modeling; Urban farming; Environmental impact assessment; Climate-conflict links;
Prof. Yael Helman
Microbiology, Agriculture
Dr. Ittai Herrmann
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture,
Precision agriculture; Plant phenotyping; Carbon long term fixation
Prof. Abigail Hurwitz
Department of Environmental Economics and Management, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Impact investments; ESG
Prof. Edouard Jurkevitch
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Predation between bacteria; Insect-bacteria symbiosis; Soil microbiology
Prof. Iddo Kan
Department of Environmental Economics and Management, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Wastewater irrigation; Solid-waste management; Renewable energy
Prof. Zohar Kerem
The Institute of Biochemistry, Food and Nutrition
Plant protein; Drought resistant plants; Valorization waste; Food
Dr. Jaime Kigel
The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems; Biodiversity; Plant Ecology; Grazing; Productivity-diversity relationships;Desertification
Prof. Adam Lampert
Institute of Environmental Sciences, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Environmental Management; Environmental Economics; Bioeconomics
Prof. Yael Mandelik
Entomology, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Biodiversity conservation; Ecosystem services; Ecological monitoring; Ecological restoration
Dr. Yair Mau
Soil and Water Sciences
Soil degradation; Sustainable irrigation; Desertification; Plant water management
Prof. Efrat Monsonego-Ornan
The School of Nutrition, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Alternative protein; Ultra-processed food
Prof. Shai Morin
Entomology, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Developing Novel methods for pest control to improve food security; Reduce chemical control spaying in agriculture for enhancing biodiversity and ecological services
Prof. Menachem Moshelion
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Plant-environment interactions, Plant nutrient and water use, Precise irrigation
Dr. Alon Nissan
Soil biophysics, terrestrial carbon cycle, microbe-soil-plant-atmosphere interactions
Department: Soil and Water Sciences
Prof. Masha Niv
The Institute of Biochemistry, Food and Nutrition, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Food production in changing climate; Evolution of taste perception under changing conditions; Sensory attributes of alternative proteins
Dr. Philippos Papathanos
Entomology
Insect genetics, Genetic control of insect pests, Gene drives, Synthetic Biology
Prof. Zvi Peleg
Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture
Climate-resilient crops; Water-use efficiency; Wheat wild relatives; Root biology; Food security
Dr. Guy Polturak
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture.
Agriculture biotic stress plant defense plant metabolism
Dr. Ohad Raveh
Department of Environmental Economics and Management, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Natural resource economics
Prof. Zvi Roth
Department of Animal Sciences, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Environmental contamination; Fertility
Dr. Baruch Rubin
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Integrated Weed Management (IWM); Environmental fate of pesticides in plants, soil and water; Environmentally friendly and novel herbicide formulations
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Dr. Yael Bar-Zeev
Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Health Promotion; Healthy Cities; Tobacco Control
Prof. Ofra Benny
School of Pharmacy, Medicine
Biodegradable materials and nanomaterials; Polymers and organic materials
Dr. Benjamin Drenger
Medicine
Volatile anesthetics; Elimination from the atmosphere
Dr. Alexander Gural
Medicine
Teaching sustainability to medical students
Dr. Michael Klutstein
Dental Medicine, Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research
Effect of foodborne toxins on human fertility; Effect of rising temp on fertility
Dr. Hagai Levine
Medicine
Environmental Health Policy; Environmental Epidemiology
Prof. Alon Livny
Dentistry
Dentistry; Waste Management; Single use and reuse
Prof. Ora Paltiel
Epidemiology, Medicine
Prof. Raanan Raz
Public Health, Medicine
Prof. Stefan Rokem
Medicine, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, IMRIC
Prof. Tomer Broude
Law and International Relations
Trade; Investment; Human rights; Fossil fuels; Corporate Social Responsibility
Prof. Claudia V. Goldman
Data Science, Business School
Explainable AI, AI for Social Good, Decision Making under Uncertainty, Human-AI Interactions
Prof. Guy Harpaz
Dean of Students, Law and Social Sciences
Dr. Sharon Horsky
Business School
Consumer choice; Green Housing
Prof. Yotam Kaplan
Faculty of Law
Dr. Yehezkel (hezi) Resheff
Business School
Prof. Orly Sade
Business School
Crowdfunding and gender; financial inclusion
Dr. Miriam Schwartz-Ziv
Business School, Finance Department
ESG, Finance
Dr. Uri Davidovich
Archaeology, Humanities
Landscape Archaeology; Ancient subsistence strategies; Human-environment interactions; Agricultural systems; Past/present faunal diversity
Prof. Jan Gunneweg
Humanities and Archaeometry, Institute of Archaeology
Dr. Erella Hovers
Institute of Archaeology
Paleo-environment; Pleistocene; Resistor archaeology
Dr. Lee Mordechai
History, Humanities
Prof. Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Asian Studies
Archaeology; climatic changes and their affect on ancient populations; China; Mongolia; Migration
Dr. Naomi Yuval-Naeh
History Department (Humanities) and Natural History Collections (Science)
British History; Environmental History; Natural History; Anthropocene; Industrial Revolution
Prof. Oren Ostersetzer-Biran
Director, Center for Sustainability
Prof. Hagit Affek
Institute of Earth Sciences
Paleoclimate; Isotope geochemistry
Prof. Amotz Agnon
Institute of Earth Sciences
Renewable energy; Energy security; Earthquake preparedness
Prof. Einat Aharonov
Institute of Earth Science
Natural gas
Prof. Alon Angert
Exact Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences
Biogeochemistry; Carbon cycle; Soil Respiration; Plant productivity; Oxygen; Stable isotopes
Prof. Micha Asscher
Institute of Chemistry
Global warming; Carbon dioxide recycling/hydrogenation; Heterogeneous catalytic reactions; Bimetallic and trimetallic nanoparticles catalysts
Dr. Tamar Avin-Wittenberg
Plant and Environmental Sciences
Plant yield, metabolomics, autophagy, abiotic stress
Dr. Uri Banin
Faculty of Science, Institute of Chemistry
Alternative energy; Solar fuels; Green hydrogen; Photocatalysis; Air and water purification
Prof. Shimshon Belkin
Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences
Biosensors; Pollution; Water quality
Prof. Guy Bloch
Natural Sciences; Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Honey bees, Bumble bees, Pollination, Insect physiology
Dr. Guy Dagan
Institute of Earth Sciences
Climate change; Cloud feedback; Aerosol-cloud interaction
Prof. Simon Emmanuel
Institute of Earth Sciences
Water resources; Carbon sequestration
Dr. Yehouda Enzel
Institute of Earth Sciences
Geomorphology; Fluvial change; Dead Sea; Dust and loess; Landform evolution
Prof. Amir Erez
Racah Institute of Physics
Theoretical ecology; Biodiversity; Ecosystem collapse; Population dynamics; Evolutionary dynamics; Host-microbiome interactions; Environmental microbial communities; Consumer-resource models
Prof. Lioz Etgar
Chemistry
Solar cells and related materials
Dr. Omri Finkel
Institute of Life Science
Plant-microbe interactions; Microbial ecology; Microbiome; Crop resilience
Prof. Uri Gat
Cell and Developmental Biology, Life Sciences
Prof. Dmitri Gelman
Chemistry
Catalysis; Energy
Dr. Hezi Gildor
The Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics & Sciences
Climate research; Oceanography
Dr. Yoni Goldmsith
Institute of Earth Sciences
Dr. Ronen Gottesman
Institute of Chemistry
Dr. Gili Greenbaum
Natural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Conservation biology; Conservation genetics; Landscape fragmentation; Gene drive biocontrols; Ethics of conservation
Prof. Carynelisa Haspel
Institute of Earth Sciences
Solar energy; Light pollution
Dr. Dror Hawlena
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Desert ecosystem function; Restoration ecology; Endangered species; Species recovery plans; Animal-agriculture conflicts; Invasive species management
Dr. Assaf Hochman
Institute of Earth Sciences
Climate change projections; Extreme weather forecast; Climate change impacts
Prof. Ronen Kadmon
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Biodiversity; Conservation; Grazing; Plant Ecology; Nature Reserve Design; Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Community Ecology
Prof. Nir Keren
Life Sciences
Prof. Eli Kraisler
Fritz Haber Research Center and Institute of Chemistry
Computational description of photovoltaic materials; Simulation of exciton dynamics; Electronic structure of energy materials
Prof. Ovadia Lev
The Institute of Chemistry
Energy storage; Environmental Chemistry
Dr. Shlomo Magdassi
Chemistry
Energy harvesting- thermosolar; photovoltaics; piezoelectrics; Energy savings- smart windows; Sustainable materials- wood and related materials;Additive Manufacturing-3D printing
Prof. Daniel Mandler
Chemistry
Prof. Efrat Morin
Earth Sciences
Prof. Yaakov Nahmias
Grass Center for Bioengineering
Prof. Oded Navon
Faculty of Science, Institute of Earth Sciences
The deep carbon cycle. Diamonds and carbon-bearing fluids in the Earth's mantle
Prof. Rachel Nechushtai
Alexander Silberman Life Science Institute
Photosynthesis; Artificial photosynthesis; photocurrent generation
Prof. Meital Reches
Chemistry
Antifouling; Peptide-based materials
Prof. Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein
The Institute of Earth Sciences
Air pollution meteorology; Climate change, health related meteorology; Extreme events; Precipitation; Temperature
Dr. Boaz Shacham
National Natural History Collections (NNHC)
Herpetology; ecology; zoology; nature conservation; biodiversity; science communication
Dr. Yeala Shaked
Institute of Earth Sciences, Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat
Iron; bioavailability; biogeochemistry; oceanography; primary productivity; microbe-mineral interactions; uptake; phytoplankton
Dr. Daphna Shimon
Chemistry
Carbon sequestration; weathering; magnetic resonance; NMR; DNP
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Dr. Nufar Avni
Dept. of Geography
Environmental policies; Urban autonomy; C40; ICLEI
Prof. Rotem Bar-Or
Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography
Urban climate change and mitigation; Smart Sustainable Cities; Technology and Urban Well-being
Dr. Reut Barak Weekes
Glocal International Development Program
Sustainable agriculture; Technological adoption; Community Development
Prof. Tomer Broude
Law and International Relations
Trade; Investment; Human rights; Fossil fuels; Corporate Social Responsibility
Prof. Galit Cohen Blankshtain
Public Policy and Government; Geography
Public participation; locality; NGOs
Prof. Eran Feitelson
Environmental Policy, Social Science
Prof. Daniel Felsenstein
Geography
Agent based modeling for public health; Pandemic containment; Spatio-temporal modeling of pandemic contagion; Evaluation of natural amenities in spatial hedonic house pricing
Dr. Itay Fischhendler
Geogprahy
Water; Energy; Conflict resolution; Governance
Dr. Orit Gazit
Department of International Relations & Program in International Development Studies (Glocal)
Climate Refugees; Environmental Migration; Environmental Mobilities
Prof. Tsfira Grebelsky-Lichtman
Communication and the Swiss Center for Conflict research, management and resolution
Persuasion; Effective communication; Negotiation; Conflict resolution; Conflict management
Dr. Itay Greenspan
Social Work, Social Science
Prof. Guy Harpaz
Dean of Students, Law and Social Sciences
Dr. Lior Herman
International Relations, Social Science
Prof. Sigal Kaplan
Department of Geography
Traffic safety; Green technology adoption; Electric vehicles; Mobility-as-a-service; Knowledge-economy; Sustainable transport
Prof. Yifat Ben-David Kolikant
School of Education
Research on teaching and learning climate change
Prof. Noam Levin
Geography
GIS; Remote sensing; Conservation planning
Prof. Eyal Pe'er
Public Policy and Government
Solar panels adoption; Multiuse products; Consumer behavior; Behavioral public policy
Dr. Shira Peles
Geography, Glocal
Sustainable development; Food security; Agriculture; Education; Climate change
Prof. Gillad Rosen
Social Sciences, Geography and Institute of Urban and Regional Studies
Energy Policy; Urban Energy Transition; Renewables; Infrastructure Politics; Urban Renewal
Dr. Shilo Rosenwasser
Social Sciences, Geography and Institute of Urban and Regional Studies
Energy Policy; Urban Energy Transition; Renewables; Infrastructure Politics; Urban Renewal
Dr. Liron Shani
Faculty of Society, Sociology and Anthropology
Anthropology of Environment and Agriculture; Science and Technology; Rural areas; Alien species; Social impacts of the climate crisis
Dr. Orna Shemer
School of Social Work
Public participation; Community; Climate crisis; Participatory practice
Prof. Amit Tubi
Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences
Human dimensions of climate change; vulnerability; adaptation; climate migration; climate-conflict nexus