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Academic activities

 

Position in academic administration

1988 - 1992 Head, Water Resources Research Unit,
Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker Campus 84990, ISRAEL.
1989 - 1992 Member,  Committee for graduate studies,
Dept of Mech. Eng. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1992 - 1996 Member,  Committee for computing utilities,
Dept of Mech. Eng. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1992 Convener, Six weeks graduate courses for International students on Hydrological Modeling of Flow and Pollution in Dry Regions.
1994 - 1996 Member,  Committee for university computing utilities,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1997 Member, Steering Committee, Center for Water Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1997 Member,  Committee for computing utilities,
Dept of Mech. Eng. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
1998 - 1999

Head,  Dryland Environmental Water Resources Unit,

Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker Campus.
1999 - 2003

Head, Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology,
Institute for Water Sciences and Technology,

Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker Campus.
2002

Convener, International courses on observations and modeling, Azul, Argentina (Oct. 7-11), the Unsaturated Zone,

Rosario, Argentina (Oct. 14-18), Aquifer Contamination.
2004

Convener, International courses on Aquifer Contamination, observations and modeling,
La Serena, Chile (Nov. 23-26),

Rio Cuarto, Argentina (Nov. 30 - Dec. 3).
2005 Member, Committee for Academic Statute and Code of the University.
2006 Convener, International courses on Aquifer Contamination, observations and modeling,
Cuernavaca, Mexico (July 17-21).
2007 Member, University Secondary Committee for Academic Staff Promotion of the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research.
2007 Counselor, Representing the University in its Academic Discipline Committee concerning a sexual harassment trial.
2007

Convener, International course on Introduction to Modeling, Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media, Cagliari,

Sardinia (June 25-29).
2008 Course Lecturer International course on Advanced Numerical Modeling and Transport in Soils and Aquifers.Siena, Italy (April 6-9).
2008 Committee Member: Secondary Committee for Academic Staff Promotion
of the Faculty of Engineering.
2009 Committee Member: University Court for Academic Staff Appeals
2009 Course Convener: PhD course on Introduction to Modeling,
Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media,
Barcelona, Spain (March 30 - April 3).
2009 Course Convener: PhD course on Introduction to Modeling,
Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media,
Porto Alegre, Brazil (Aug. 12-18).
2009 Course Convener: PhD course on Introduction to Modeling,
Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media,
Santiago, Chile (Aug. 24-28).
2010 Session Convener: Special Session on Coupled Hydro-Termo-Mechanico-Chemical
Modelling, XVIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR2010),Barcelona, Spain (June 21-24).
2010 Course Convener: PhD course on Introduction to Modeling,
Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media,
Ballart, Australia (Aug. 2-5).

 

Professional functions outside universities/institutions

1991 - 1992

Academic Head, Envirotec - Group for developing software packages for solving environmental problems.

Advanced Technologies Center Assoc., TEMED Industrial Park, ISRAEL

 

Significant professional consulting

1983 TAHAL Consulting Engineers Ltd., Tel Aviv, ISRAEL,  Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Transport in Aquifers.
1984

Research Advisor: Biomedical Engineering Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Modeling of Pressure

Distribution in the Brain.
1986 Princeton University, Department of Civil Engineering, USA. (invited by Prof. G. Pinder).  Groundwater Modeling.
1986

University of Capetown, Department of Biomedical Engineering, South Africa, (invited by Prof. K. Allen). 

Interactive Circulation between Brain-Body Systems.
   
Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journal
  • Invited Keynote speaker;

Head of session Contaminant Transport; Member of editorial board.
AVR 05 - Aquifer Vulnerability and Risk 05, 2nd International Workshop & 4th National
Congress on the Protection and Management of Groundwater, Parma - Italy,
September, 2005
  • Member of editorial board
    SWIM - 20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting, Florida - U.S., June, 2008
  • Invited Keynote speaker
    Poromechanics IV, Fourth Biot Conf. on Poromechanics, Columbia NY, June, 2009.
  • Associate Editor
    AQUAmundi, Journal of Water Sciences, 2010.
    http://www.scribo.it/
  • Invited Plenary speaker
    1st International Congress of Flatlands Hydrology, Azul Argentina, Sept. 2010.

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