Awards And Honors
Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only
| Name | Department | Honor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Uri Alon | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Recipient of the HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) Nakasone Award | |
| Prof. Ido Amit | Department of Systems Immunology | Recipient of an EMBO Young Investigator Award | |
| Prof. Ed Bayer | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Elected as a Member of the European of Mictobiology (EAM) | |
| Prof. Mordechai Ben-ari | Department of Science Teaching | Recipient of the ACM/SIGCSE (Association for Computing Machinery) Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education | |
| Prof. Vladimir Berkovich | Department of Mathematics | Elected as an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow | |
| Prof. David Cahen | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (US) | |
| Prof. Irun r. Cohen | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in recognition of sustained outstanding contributions to the advancement of psy | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Recipient of a Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity Prize for Outstanding work in the domain of the mechanisms of memory | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Elected to the International Scientific Advisory Board of BRAIN LabEx, the French National Cluster of Excellence of Neuroscience at Bordeaux | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Delivered the Hector Maldonado Memorial Lecture in Memory Research during the Annual Meeting of the Neroscience Societies of South America in Cordoba, | |
| Prof. Nirit Dudovich | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Zelig Eshhar | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of the European Society of Gene and Cell Theraphy (ESGCT) and Human Gene Theraphy (ESGCT) and Human Gene Theraphy Outstanding Achievement Aw | |
| Prof. Deborah Fass | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Elected as a member of EMBO | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | The Sir Paul Callaghan Lecturer at the 18th ISMAR conference | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the Russel Varian Prize | |
| Prof. Daniella Goldfarb | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRS) | |
| Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the A.M. Turing Award | |
| Prof. Dmitry Gourevitch | Department of Mathematics | Awarded the Levitzki Prize in Algebra from the Israel Mathematical Union | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Sciences | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Elected to the editorial board of Stem Cell Reports Journal by Cell Press | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the Robertson Innovator Award by the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the Broad Institute Collaborative Project Award | |
| 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 | |
| Prof. Moty Heiblum | Department of Condensed Matter Physics | Recipient of the EMET Prize in Physics Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation | |
| Prof. Adi Kimchi | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of an ECDO Career Award for important contributions to the cell death field | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea | |
| Prof. Zohar Komargodski | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the Gribov Medal by the EPS High Energy Particle Physics Division Prizes | |
| Prof. Zohar Komargodski | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the IPS Prize for a Young Physicist by the Israel Physical Society | |
| Prof. Zohar Komargodski | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize | |
| Prof. Leeor Kronik | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society | |
| Prof. Anat Levin | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Nieuwland Lecturer at the University of Nortre Dame | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Jones Lecturer at Queens University, Canada | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the PKU-Lilly Lectureship, Peking University | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Presented the Hutchison Memorial Lectures at the University of Rochester, NY | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the Bohlmann Lectureship, Technische Universitat Berlin | |
| Prof. Ron Naaman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Honord by Special Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C | |
| Prof. Michal Neeman | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Elected as a Fellow of ESMRMB (European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology) | |
| Prof. Ronny Neumann | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea | |
| Prof. Yuval Oreg | Department of Condensed Matter Physics | Recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Prof. Israel Pecht | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Biology from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | |
| Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the IBM Faculty Award | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Recipient of the Order of Scientific Merit Award of the Federal Government of Brazil | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at the Niels Bohr International Academy | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Elected as the Chair of the International Commission for Statistical Physics for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) | |
| Prof. Orly Reiner | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence Chancellor's Award | |
| Prof. Varda Rotter | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Recipient of the Helmoholtz International Fellow Award | |
| Prof. Boris Rybtchinski | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Delivered the Werdelmann-Stiftung Lecture at the University of Essen | |
| Prof. Irit Sagi | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Awarded the Juludan Research Prize from the Technion | |
| Prof. Omri Sarig | Department of Mathematics | Awarded the Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems | |
| Prof. Omri Sarig | Department of Mathematics | Awarded the Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union | |
| Prof. Yechiel Shai | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Elected to the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, Chaina | |
| Prof. Ben-zion Shilo | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation | |
| Prof. Yaron Silberberg | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Elected as a Member of Israel National Academy oc Sciences and Humanities | |
| Prof. Yaron Silberberg | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Recipient of the Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA) | |
| Prof. Rotem Sorek | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the Teva Founders Award for Young Scientists | |
| Prof. Joel Sussman | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Prof. Dan Tawfik | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Recipient of the Teva Award for Excellence in Memory of Eli Hurvitz | |
| Prof. Edriss s. Titi | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Elected as an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellow | |
| Prof. Edriss s. Titi | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Elected as the Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)/Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (APDE) | |
| Prof. Edriss s. Titi | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of a Special Research Visitor Fellowship Award by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific Research CNPq | |
| Prof. Itzhak Tserruya | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Appointed as a co-chair of the Heavy Ion panel of the US Department of Energy Comparative Research Review in Nuclear Physics | |
| Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky | Department of Brain Sciences | Awarded the Bernard Katz Prize in Neuroscience by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | |
| Prof. Daniel hanoch Wagner | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Delivered the Joint MIT-Harvard Nanomaterials Special Lecture | |
| Prof. Stephen Weiner | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Recipient of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Cambridge University | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Appointed as a Member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences, FRG | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Recipient of a Charles Darwin Distinguished Scientist Award from Galapagos Academic Center for the Arts and Sciences (GAIAS) | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Patras University, Greece |

