| Education |
| B.Sc. |
1990 - 1993 |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Faculty of Agriculture.
Major in Animal Sciences; Minor in Ecology and Environmental Studies. |
| M.Sc. |
1995 - 1996 |
Auburn University, USA, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures. Advisor: Prof. Claude E. Boyd. Thesis: "Effect of five phosphorus levels in 'all plant' channel catfish diets on water quality variables in earthen ponds". |
| Ph.D. |
1996 - 1999 |
Auburn University, USA, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures. Advisor: Prof. Claude E. Boyd. Dissertation: "Nitrogen cycling in aquaculture ponds".
Employment History |
Employment History |
| 2010-present |
Honorary Research Fellow, Environmental Engineering, School of Environmental Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia. |
| Oct 2007-present |
Senior Lecturer, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel. |
| Oct. 2003 - 2007 |
Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel. |
| June 2002 - Sept. 2003 |
Researcher in the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology, ZIWR, BIDR, BGU, Israel. |
| July 2000 - June 2002 |
Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology, ZIWR, BIDR, BGU, Israel. |
| 1999 - April 2000 |
Senior scientist and manager of the chemical unit, Environmental Laboratory, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
| 1996 - 1998 |
Teaching assistant in a graduate level water quality course. Full time position as a research assistant and in charge of the daily running of the water quality laboratory in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, USA. |
| 1995 |
Research assistant, Auburn University, USA. |
| 1994 - 1995 |
Research assistant in Microbial Ecology, The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. |
| 1993 - 1994 |
Program coordinator and senior staff member, The Israeli Society for the Protection of Nature (S.P.N.I), Sede Boqer Field School.
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| Membership in professional/scientific societies |
| 2004 - present |
International Water Association (IWA) |
| 2001 - 2003 |
The Israeli Society of Microbiology (ISM) |
| 2001 - Present |
Israeli Society for Ecology & Environmental Quality Sciences (ISEEQS) |
| 1998 - Present |
The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) |
| Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships: |
| Honors |
1996 - Honorary membership of the Gamma Sigma Delta chapter, Auburn University, Alabama, USA. |
| Patents |
2005 Gross, A, Nejidat A., and P. Fine. Nitrogen extraction from organic wastes for fertigation in organic agriculture. Registered (provisional) in the USA (US60/735,171). |
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