Honors, Awards, and Promotions in 2011

Last updated July 8, 2012. E.O.E.

   External Awards

• Prof. Lia Addadi (Structural Biology): Awarded the Aminoff Prize for Crystallography by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
• Prof. Brian Berkowitz (Environmental Sciences and Energy Research): Has been Named Oliver Endowed Lecturer in Hydrology, Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin
• Prof. David Cahen (Materials and Interfaces):
  • Israel Chemical Society Prize for Excellence
  • Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
• Prof. Daniella Goldfarb (Chemical Physics): Kolthoff Prize of the Technion
• Prof. Jacob Klein (Materials and Interfaces):
  • Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Elected as an "Honorary Member" of the Israel Polymers and Plastics Society
• Prof. Leeor Kronik (Materials and Interfaces): ICS Outstanding Young Scientist Prize
• Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin (Organic Chemistry): Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium
• Prof. David Milstein (Organic Chemistry):
  • Recipient of a Meitner Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Delivered the 2011 Lewis Lecture at Cambridge University, UK
  • Invited to deliver the Ernest H. Swift Lecture at California Institute of Technology, USA
• Prof. Ron Naaman (Chemical Physics): Recipient of the IVS (Israel Vacuum Society) Research Excellence Prize
• Prof. Itamar Procaccia (Chemical Physics): Awarded the Gauss Professorship from the Academy of Science in Göttingen
• Prof. Reshef Tenne (Materials and Interfaces):
  • Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK
  • Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Invited to deliver the Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture of the 14th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, India
  • Folman Lecture, Technion
  • Recipient of a Plenary Speaker Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

   Internal Awards

• Dr. Itay Halevy (Environmental Science): The Charles Clore Prize for Outstanding Appointment

   Promoted to Professor in 2011

• Prof. Gilad Haran (Chemical Physics)
• Prof. Aldo Shemesh (Environmental Science)

   Promoted to Associate Professor in 2011

• Prof. Michael Bendikov (Organic Chemistry)
• Prof. Ilan Koren (Environmental Science)

   Promoted to Senior Scientist in 2011

• Dr. Rafal Klajn (Organic Chemistry)

   Joined the Faculty in 2011

• Prof. Oded Aharonson (Environmental Science)
• Dr. Yohai Caspi (Environmental Science)
• Dr. Itay Halevy (Environmental Science)

   Student and Postdoctoral Awards

• Ms. Keren Stimler (Environmental Science, Yakir group): ICS Prize for Outstanding Graduate Students
• Dr. Noa Lachman (Materials and Interfaces, Wagner group): prize for best poster at the Deformation and Fracture of Composites (DFC-11) Conference which took place at Cambridge University.

   Institute-Level Administrative Appointments in 2011

• Prof. Yigal Burstein (Organic Chemistry): Head, Division of Information Systems