Board of Directors
Prof. Ilana Berman-Frank
Head of the Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel , university of haifa
Email: iberman2@univ.haifa.ac.il
Position at the University of Haifa: The Former Director of The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences
Research Areas: The impact of aquatic ecosystems on the environment and society, ranging from the local to the global scales
Prof. Edo Bar-Zeev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Chairman of the Board and Member of the Academic committee
Email: edobarzeev@gmail.com
Research Areas: Applied and environmental microbiologist, focusing on bacterial consortiums in natural and man-made systems
Dr. Shiri Tsemah Shamir
Reichman University (IDC Herzliya )
Chairman of the Academic Committee and Member of the Board
Email shiri.zemahshamir@idc.ac.il
Position at Reichman university (IDC Herzliya) : Head of Economics-Sustainability, Academic Advisor
Research Areas: Marine environment economics
Prof. Jonathan Belmaker
Tel Aviv University
Member of the Board
Email jbelmaker@tauex.tau.ac.il
Research Areas: Fish ecology, biodiversity, impacts of climate change on fishes, fishing, biological invasions
Prof. Adi Torfstein
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Member of the Board and the Academic Committee
Email adi.torf@mail.huji.ac.il
Research Areas: Geochemistry, Chemical oceanography, Climate change, Paleoceanography
Dr. Ayelet Dadon-Pilosof
Ruppin Academic Center
Member of the Board and the Academic Committee
Email ayelet@ruppin.ac.il
Research Areas: Grazing resistance of marine bacteria, Microbial interactions, Isolation and grazing by Nanoflagellate, Changes in microbial community composition, long-term coastal ecosystem monitoring
Mr. Alon Zask
Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Dr. Gal Eyal
The Bar-Ilan University
Member of the Board and Academic Committee
Email: gal.eyal1@biu.ac.il
Research Areas: Marine Ecology and Molecular Ecology
Dr. Oded Katz
Geological Institute
Member of the Board
Email odedk@gsi.gov.il
Research Areas: Sediment transport along the Israeli offshore with implications to marine geo-hazard
Dr. Matan Oren
Ariel University
Member of the Board and the Academic Committee
Email: matanok@gmail.com
Research Areas: The plastisphere – the ecosystem of marine plastic trash;
Marine plastic-degrading organisms and the underlying molecular mechanisms for plastic biodegradation
Prof. Itay Halevy
Weizmann Institute of Science
Member of the Board
Email itay.halevy@weizmann.ac.il
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Prof. Yizhaq Makovsky
Haifa University
Member of the Board and Technical Director
Email: yizhaq@univ.haifa.ac.il
Research Areas: Active seafloor processes – climate and conservation, potential geohazards and resources, Margin and basin studies, Multi-attribute 2D & 3D seismic methods in offshore research, exploration and development, Very High Resolution acoustic profiling, imaging & characterization