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[Last updated:
February 17, 2010
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
| Ph.D. |
Feb. 2003 |
Agricultural Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
Dissertation: Biological degradation of atrazine in FB denitrification reactor with activated carbon as the carrier for the biofilm.
Advisors: Prof. Michal Green and Prof. Carlos Dosoretz, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion. |
| B.Sc. |
August 1995
(cum laude) |
Chemical Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL |
Honors & Awards
| 10/2005-9/2007 |
Binational Agricultural and Development (BARD), Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 12/2002 - 11/2004 |
Levi Eshkol's Postdoctoral fellowship, Israel ministry
of science |
| 2003 |
Eng. Y. Greenshpan's prize for the best dissertation in the field of Environmental, Water and Agriculture Engineering, Technion |
| 2000, 2001 |
Guthwirth's award |
| 2001 |
Brita's award, The Grand Water Research Institute - Technion |
| 2001-2002 |
Technion's Excellence Scholarship |
| 1998-2002 |
Technion's Doctoral Fellowship |
Employment History
| 9/2007 - present |
Lecturer, Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Sede-Boqer campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, ISRAEL |
| 10/2005 - 9/2007 |
Postdoc research fellow (with Prof. Menachem Elimelech), Environmental Engineering Program, Chemical Engineering Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| 10/2004 - 9/2005 |
Postdoc research associate, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, CT, USA |
| 11/2002 - 10/2004 |
Postdoc research fellow, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - IIT, Haifa, ISRAEL |
| 1998 - 2002 |
Teaching assistant, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Technion - IIT, Haifa, ISRAEL |
| 1995 - 1998 |
Project Engineer, Department of Technological Services, Oil Refineries Ltd. Haifa, ISRAEL. Projects under Dr. Herzberg supervision included process optimization and selection and purchasing of piping and process equipment (pumps, heat-exchangers, column packing, etc.), process supervision of detailed programs, and superior supervision for carrying out projects in the field. |
| 1992-1995 |
Research assistant, IMI Haifa, ISRAEL (Institute for Research and Development of the Israel Chemicals Group). |
Professional Activities
| Membership of professional/scientific societies: |
| 2006 - present |
American Chemical Society
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| 2006 - present |
American Society for Microbiology |
Reviewer for the following journals: |
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- Environmental Science and Technology
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