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 Education
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| 1975-1976 | Research Associate, Agricultural and Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA |
| 1986-1987 | Visiting Scientist, California State University, California Agricultural Technology Institute, Fresno, California 93740-0079, |
| 1992, Aug. | Visiting Professor, Water Resources Division, Asian Institute of Technology, 1992, Dec. Bangkok 10501, Thailand. |
| 1997 | Adjunct Faculty in the Water Engineering and Management Program, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand |
| 1998, Sep | Visiting Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University 1999, Mar of California Los-Angeles (UCLA), Los-Angeles, CA 90095-1593, USA. |
| 2005, Aug. | Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New-Haven,2007-Jan |
Selelcted membership in professional/scientific committees
| 1992-1993 | National committee for drinking water quality and effluent filtration, appointed by the Water Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture (Chairman, Prof. M. Rebhun). |
| 1993 | Israeli representative for the Middle-East peace talks in the area of |
| 1994 (June) | Israeli representative for the Middle-East peace talks in the area of wastewater treatment and renovation (Cairo, Egypt). |
| 1994 | Member of the organizing committee of the Annual conference of the Israeli |
| 1994 | Member in the stirring committee for information of the Water Research Institute, Technion, Haifa. |
| 1994 -1995 | Member of the program committee of the "second international symposium on Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse", held in Crete, 17-21 October 1995. |
| 1995 -1996 | Research Referee Committee under Ministry of Environment for water quality and environment control. |
| 1995 -1997 | Member of the Water Research Institute research committee, Technion, Haifa. |
| 1996 | Member of the organizing and program committee for the workshop on Soil and Water Salinisation - Potential Solutions”, held in the Water Center of the Technion, Haifa, 7 March 1996 (with Prof. M. Rebhun) . |
| 1996 | Member of the organizing and program committee for the international workshop on The role of Membrane Technology in Water Quality Improvement, held at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, 8-9 May 1996 (with Prof. O. Kedem) . |
| 1997 | Member of the scientific committee of the international conference on Water |
| 1998-1999 | Member of the program committee of the International Specialized Conference on Membrane Technology in Environmental Management held in Tokyo, Japan, 1-4 November 1999 . |
| 1998-1999 | Member of the scientific committee of the International Conference on |
| 1999 (Nov.) | Chair of an ad-hoc committee [appointed by VATAT (Committee for design and finance), Ministry of Education] for evaluation of the Hydrosphere and Water Resources Program” in Tel-Aviv University . |
| 1999 (Nov.) | Chair of the special membrane group of the IWA (formerly IAWQ) . |
| 2000-2001 (Dec.) | Member of the research committee of the Grand Water Research Institute, Technion, Haifa . |
| 2001-2002 | Member of the international scientific committee for the Water Management conference, Athens 2002 . |
| 2001-2002 | Member of the international scientific committee for the effluent reuse conference (IWA), Crete, Greece, 2002 . |
| 2001 | Member of the UN International World Health Organization (WHO) Committee for wastewater quality for aquifer recharge . |
| 2001-2002 | Member of the research scientific committee for efficient effluent reuse (Nominated by the chief scientist of the Ministry of Agriculture, State of Israel) . |
| 2001-2004 | Member of the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) for the American Water Works Association Research Foundation Project, June 2001 . |
| 2001-2002 | Member of the international scientific committee conference on “Wastewater Treatment in Small scale Technologies, Seville, Spain, 20-22 March 2002 . |
| 2002 | Chair of the promotion committee for ranks of engineers in ARO, Ministry of |
| 2002 | 2002 Member of the international scientific committee conference on Membranes in Drinking and Industrial" . ^ Top of Page |
| 2002 | Member of the advising committee for the evaluation of the B.Sc. program in |
| 2003 (Jan.) | Member of the Board of the International Academy Council (IAC) (for the study on African Agricultural Production (board selected by the General Secretary of the UN, Kofi A. Annan), nominated by the Prof. Jacob Ziv, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. |
| 2003 | Member of the international Editorial Board of the Journal of Water and Health (IWA) |
| 2003-2004 | Member of the international scientific committee of the 6th Specialist Conference on Small Water & Wastewater Systems (IWA), 1st International conference on Onsite Wastewater Treatment & Recycling, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, 11-13 February 2004 . |
| 2004 | Member and chair of the conference on Managing Sustainable Development. 18 March, 2004, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva . |
| 2004 | Member of a special advisory committee in the workshop of experts to consider a protocol and framework for development water reuse criteria with reference to drinking water supplies. UK Industry Research Limited. (England, Warwick, 19-20 April 2004) . |
| 2004-2005 | Committee member of the Israeli Society for Operation Research (ORSIS) . |
| 2004 | Member of the organizing committee of the Annual conference of the Israeli Society for Operation Research (ORSIS): The Committee for the Scientific and Managerial Program. 16-17 May, Ashkelon . |
| 2003-2004 | Member of the international advisory committee conference on “Water Environment- Membrane Technology, Seoul, Korea, 7-10 June 2004 . |
| 2003-2004 | Member of the international scientific committee conference on “Waste Stabilization Ponds and Industrial Water Production, Avingon, France, 28 September-1, October 2004 . ^ Top of Page |
| 2004-2005 | Member of the international scientific committee of the Conference on Integrated Concepts in Water Recycling, 14-17 February 2005, Wollongong, NSW, Australia |
| 2004-2007 | Member of the international scientific committee of the Conference on membrane Concepts in Water Recycling, 15-17 May 2007, Cranfield, UK . |
| 2005 | Member of the International Consulting committee for Review on Sewage Treatment and Water Reuse (WHO/UNEP Joint Project, MED POL Phase III). Meeting: 30 March-1 April 2005, Athens, Greece . |
| 2005 | Key note speaker and adviser in the International Scientific Advisory Committee in the International conference on New Water Culture of South East European Countries”, 21- 23 October 2005, Athens Greece. (Topic of lecture: Advanced low quality waters treatment for unrestricted use purposes: imminent challenges”) |
2005-2006 |
Member of the international scientific advisory committee of the first conference on Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies, 5-7 September 2006, Bologna, Italy . |
| 2005-2007 | Member of the international scientific committee of the International Water Association (IWA) conference on membranes for water and wastewater treatment, 15-17 May 2007, Harrogate UK . |
| 2006-2007 | Member of the international scientific committee of the international conference of the IWA special reuse group on Wastewater Reuse: Concepts in Water Recycling, October/November 2007, Antwerp, Belgium . |
| 2006-2007 | Member and key note speaker of the international scientific committee of II International Congress on Wastewater Treatment in Small Communities (SmallWat07), Seville, Spain, 11-15 November 2007 |
| 2007(August) | Member of the international Editorial Board of the Desalination Journal |
Awards, Honors, Research Fellowships (After studies completion)
June 1998 - Best practice-oriented paper for the ASCE Journal of Water Resources
Planning and Management Division for 1997: "Optimal operation of regional
system with diverse water quality sources", by Carlos Percia, Gideon Oron
and Abraham Mehrez. The award was presented at the Division's annual meeting
in Chicago, 8 June 1998 .