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Prof. Eilon Adar, Director ZIWR |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest :
Groundwater hydrology of arid basins. Deals particularly with Israel's "international" aquifers, their quality and division with Palestinians and other neighboring countries .
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Dr. Shai Arnon |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest :
* Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment
* Biogeochemical processes in streams
* Stream restoration
* Hydroecology
* Soil and groundwater remediation
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Dr. Avraham Be'er |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Complex bacterial phenomena; group behavior mechanisms; collective bacterial motion in liquids; swarming motility; competition between sibling colonies; phenotypic switching; colony morphogenesis; bacteriocins; interactions between bacteria and polymeric membranes; particle tracking; superdiffusion; biorheology; biosurfactants; thin biofilms.
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Dr. Sofia Belfer, Emeritus |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Preparation and application of reactive polymers. Involved in projects related to membrane technology and the synthesis of selective ion-exchange resins and the applications of both technologies to different separation processes
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Dr. Ofer Dahan |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Vadose zone and groundwater hydrology, emphasizing quantitative assessment of water infiltration and groundwater recharge.
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Dr. Viatcheslav (Slava) Freger |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Transport mechanisms in membranes and polymers; formation and structure of composite membranes for pressure-driven and electro-membrane processes; membrane characterization; thermodynamics of membranes; swelling and solute partitioning; characterization and in-situ monitoring of membrane fouling.
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Dr. Osnat Gillor |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Investigating bacterial produced antibacterial peptides (bacteriocins) which are produced by all major lineages of Bacteria and Archaea. These potent toxins are highly diverse, but they are all ribosomally synthesized, and are active against bacteria closely related to the producing bacteria. Explore the role bacteriocin play in microbial communities.
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Dr. Jack Gilron |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Membrane processes for treating water (particularly in nanofiltration and reverse osmosis) and in treating desalination brines.
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Dr. Amit Gross |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Efficient use of marginal water, remediation techniques, and the environmental risks associated with contaminated water resources (i.e. agriculture effluents, wastewater, contaminated groundwater).
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Dr. Moshe Herzberg |
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Department of Desalination and Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Biofouling of pressure driven membranes; initial stages of bacterial biofilm formation (adhesion and irreversible attachment); biofilm reactors; mass transfer in biofilms.
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Prof. Arie S. Issar, Emeritus |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Prof. Issar’s current research focuses on the impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle and socio-economic systems to enable the development of conceptual models in order to mitigate the negative impact of global change.
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Dr. Drora Kaplan |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Microbial aspects of water pollution; developing cost-effective and feasible biotechnologies for removing pollutants from water; the biological processes leading to removal and or detoxification of toxic heavy metals from contaminated wastewater by microalgae; the effect of global change, mainly the effect of increasing CO2 concentration on vegetation, using Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis as a model system.
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Dr. Roni Kasher |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Synthesis and characterization of novel nano-filtration and reverse-osmosis membranes for water desalination and treatment; peptide synthesis, peptide chemistry and biologically active peptides.
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Dr. Emanuel Korngold, Emeritus |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Ion-exchange: ion-exchange properties, selectivity, special uses, wastewater treatment; membranes: permselective membranes for electrodialysis properties and special uses; electrodialysis: pretreatment and operation; pervaporation; ion-exchange hollow fibers.
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Dr. Charles Linder |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Unique ordered ion-exchange membranes for fuel cells and electrodialysis; nanofiltration and reverse osmosis for water treatment and desalination; novel vesicles for targeted controlled release for the treatment of CNS diseases; micro-encapsulation of biologically active agents; development of sulfate permeable asymmetric mosaic membranes for nanofiltration; improved chemically stable nanofiltration.
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Dr. Rami Messalem |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Membrane processes for treating municipal and industrial wastewater (particularly in ultra-filtration and micro-filtration, as well as reverse osmosis) and in pre-treating sea-water for desalination; membrane characterization and autopsy of membranes; synthesis of ion-exchange membranes; new stacks for electrodialysis.
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Prof. Ali Nejidat |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Biochemistry and molecular genetics of microorganisms capable of degrading individual or groups of toxic compounds, in particular the ecophysiology and molecular genetics of chemolithotrophic nitrifying bacteria.
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Prof. Gideon Oron, Emeritus |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Low quality water treatment and reclamation, membrane technology for wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for waste treatment and reuse, management modeling and optimization of water resources and environmental systems, irrigation, sustainable development, aquaculture for wastewater treatment and reuse, reliability of treatment and reuse of low quality water systems.
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Prof. Yoram Oren, Head |
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Department of Desalination & Water Treatment
Areas of interest:
Electrically driven membrane separations: electrodialysis, capacitive deionization; transport phenomena in membranes for water treatment; fouling mechanisms of membranes; membrane characterization by electrochemical methods.
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Prof. Daniel Ronen, Adjunct Professor
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Hydrogeologist specializing in hydrochemistry; groundwater research and groundwater quality monitoring. Developed a novel multi-layer sampler that facilitates the study of physico-chemical and biological mediated processes and transport phenomena in groundwater, at a microscale level. Moreover, it enables monitoring of water influx to the saturated zone, and therefore, the development of groundwater-quality early-warning monitoring systems. Study of cause-effect processes such as the impact of reutilization of sewage effluents on the quality of groundwater.
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Dr. Zeev Ronen |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Bio-remediation of wastewater and bio-degradation of organic pollutants in aquifer water. Includes research at Ramat- Hovav.
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Dr. Ines Soares |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Denitrification of drinking water; wastewater treatment; constructed wetlands; bioremediation; use of symbiotic biodiversity to enhance plant tolerance to environmental stresses and combat desertification.
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Prof. Shaul Sorek |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Developing continuum mechanics models, mathematical methods and numerical algorithms of transport phenomena through deformable porous/fractured media and bio-systems of multi-phase and multi-components.
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Prof. Noam Weisbrod, Head |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Contaminant transport in the subsurface; vadose zone processes; groundwater salinization in arid environments; colloidal transport and fracture flow.
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Dr. Alexander Yakirevich |
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Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology
Areas of interest:
Modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in soils and groundwater. Areas of investigation include the Israeli coastal aquifer (Gaza aquifer in collaboration with Palestinians), and aquifers in Central Asian Republics (in collaboration with researchers from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan).
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