Faculty & Staff

Prof. Dan Yakir

CURRICULUM VITAE: DAN YAKIR (2011)


Environmental Sciences and Energy Research,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Phone: +972-8-9342549; FAX: +972-8-9344124; Email: dan.yakir@weizmann.ac.il

Education
 

1982-1987 Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1978-1980 M.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1974-1978 B.Sc. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Employment History
 

2003- Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science.
2003-2009 Chairman, Dept. Environ. Sci. & Energy Res, Weizmann Institute.
2001-2003 Visiting Senior Res. Sci., Columbia University, Biosphere2 Center.
1997-2002 Assoc. Professor, Environ. Sci. & Energy Res, Weizmann Institute.
1996-1997 Senior NRC Fellow, NOAA-CMDL, Boulder CO.
1991-1996 Senior Scientist, Environ. Sci. & Energy Res, Weizmann Institute.
1991 Research Fellow, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Stanford.
1989-1991 Senior Research Scientist, Duke University.
1987-1988 Post-doc Fellow, Earth & Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
1980-1981 Research Assistant, University of California, Davis

 

Other Academic activities
 

Board member Davidson Institute for Science Education
Board member Israel Society of Ecological and Environmetal Sciences
Board member Inter-University Institute of Marine Sciences (IUI), Eilat
Visiting comm. Commissariat a l’Energie Attomique (CEA)
SSC member iLeaps (integrated land ecosystem-atmosphere processes study)
Chair     Nation. Comm. IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Program)
Science comm. International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP, 2008-2011).
Advisory Board Zukerberger Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University (2008)
Director The Sussman Center for environmental research (WIS, 2003-2009)
Handling Editor Oecologia (Springer)
Associate Editor Plant Cell & Environment (2002-2005)
Guest Editor Israel Journal of Chemistry (2002).
Steering Comm. GNIP, IAEA, Vienna
Steering Comm. Biosphere—atmosphere stable isotopes Network (BASIN-IGBP, till 2006)
Advisory Comm.

International Atomic Energy Assoc. (IAEA) Vienna (1999, 2003).

Israel Academy of Science, Environ. Res. In Israel (1998-1999).

 

Fellowships/Awards
 

2006 Landau Prize for research in Environmental Sciences
2005 Earth Institute Senior Fellowship, Columbia University
2004 KKL Margarita Ravelo annual award
1997 US National Research Council, Senior Research Fellowship
1996 The Bergman Prize for Chemistry (Israel)
1993-1996 Rowland Schaeffer Career Development Chair
1994 British Council Fellowship
1991-1993 Alon Fellowship, the Council for Higher Education, Israel
1987 BARD, Post-doc Fellowship
1986 Lamas Post-doctoral Fellowship (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
1985 British Council Fellow: Univ. of Sheffield, and Univ. of Essex, U.K.
1985 Scholar of the Year of the Brody Foundation (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 


Patents:
 

(1) 1994, Bioreactor (Israel/USA/Aus.108321/5,958,761/6.

(2) US60/945,142, apparatus kit for emissivity.

 

Students and post-docs
 

MSc

Yoram Tekoah
Hagit Shlomo
Morna Isaak
Maria Kirsch
Hagit Affek
Leon Peters
Amir Tal
Tamar Afik
Yakir Preisler

Ph.D.

Roni Ashkenazi
XueFeng Wang
Hagit Affek
Kadmiel Maseyk
Ilia Gelfand
Na’ama Raz-Yasif
Keren Stimler
Tamir Klein

Post-doc

Boaz Arieli
Jim Gillon
Lin Tongbau
Eyal Rotenberg
Jose Grunzweig
Debbie Hemming
Bukhard Wilske
Nurit Agam
Alon Angert
Kadmiel Maseyk
Hemu Kafle
David Asaf
Uri Dicken