Honors awarded to Academic Staff of the Weizmann Institute during 2013

Name

Department

Honor

Prof. Vladimir Berkovich Department of Mathematics Elected as an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow
Online announcement
Prof. David Cahen Department of Materials and Interfaces Elected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (US)
Online announcement
Prof. Irun R. Cohen Department of Immunology Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg
Prof. Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Prof. Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology Recipient of the Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity Prize for 2013 for outstanding work in the domain of the mechanisms of memory
Prof. Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology Elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in recognition of sustained outstanding contributions to the advancement of psychological science
Dr. Nirit Dudovich Department of Physics of Complex Systems Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Recipient of the 2013 A.M. Turing Award
Dr. Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna Department of Molecular Genetics Recipient of a EMBO young investigator award
Online announcement
Dr. Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna Department of Molecular Genetics Recipient of the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna Department of Molecular Genetics Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Prof. David Harel Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Recipient of the ABZ Platinum-Gold Medal of ETH Zurich for Computer Science and Computer Science Education
Dr. Zohar Komargodski Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize
Dr. Anat Levin Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Prof. Yaron Silberberg Department of Physics of Complex Systems Recipient of the Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Prof. Joel Sussman Department of Structural Biology Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Prof. Edriss S. Titi Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Elected as an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow
Online announcement
Prof. Stephen Weiner Department of Structural Biology Recipient of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology