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Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only
| Name | Department | Honor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Lia Addadi | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded an Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal | |
| Prof. Avraham rami Aizenbud | Department of Mathematics | Recipient of the 2021 Anna and Lajos Erdos prize in Mathematics | |
| Prof. Ido Amit | Department of Systems Immunology | Awarded the Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais | |
| Prof. Ruth Arnon | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Appointed as an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) | |
| Prof. Ori Avinoam | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Selected to be a member of EMBO Young Investigator Programme | |
| Prof. Amnon Bar-shir | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the ICS (Israel Chemical Society) Excellent Young Scientist Prize | |
| Prof. Haim Beidenkopf | Department of Condensed Matter Physics | Elected as Chair of The Israel Young Academy | |
| Prof. Brian Berkowitz | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Awarded the 2021 John Dalton Medal by the European Geosciences Union | |
| Prof. Brian Berkowitz | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Awarded an InterPore Honorary Lifetime Membership | |
| Dr. Lavi Bigman (in the group of Prof. Koby Levy) | Communications and Marketing Unit | Winner of the National Forum for BioInnovators ("NFBI") award | |
| Idan Biran (in the group of Prof. Boris Rybtchinski) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Best poster award IMEC 2021 | |
| Idan Biran (in the group of Prof. Boris Rybtchinski) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize | |
| Prof. Zvika Brakerski | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Winning the FOCS 2021 Test of Time Award | |
| Prof. Shikma Bressler | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the IPS prize for young experimental physicists by the Israel Physical Society | |
| Dr. Ori Brookstein (in the group of Prof. Ulyana Shimanovich) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Best Poster Award NANO IL 2021 | |
| Dr. Ori Brookstein (in the group of Prof. Ulyana Shimanovich) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Best poster award IMEC 2021 | |
| Prof. Alon Chen | Department of Brain Sciences | Nominated as an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society | |
| Prof. Nava Dekel | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient the 2021 IFA (The Israel Fertility Association) Appreciation Award | |
| Prof. Nirit Dudovich | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Recipient of the Weizmann Prize from the Tel-Aviv Municipality | |
| Prof. Yonina Eldar | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the 2021 IEEE SPS Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award | |
| Prof. Eran Elinav | Department of Systems Immunology | Appointed as an honorary guest professor at the University of Science & Technology of China | |
| Prof. Zelig Eshhar | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of the 2021 Dan David Prize | |
| Prof. Bat sheva Eylon | Department of Science Teaching | Elected aa a Fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences | |
| Prof. Uriel Feige | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Winning the FOCS 2021 Test of Time Award | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Recipient the Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance | |
| Dr. Gily Ginosar (in the group of Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky) | Department of Brain Sciences | Awarded the Bernstein SmartSteps Award for 2021 | |
| Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Winning the FOCS 2021 Test of Time Award | |
| Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the Ph.D. honoris causa from Tel Aviv University | |
| Shira Haber (in the group of Prof. Michal Leskes) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | 2021 student talk award from the Israel Electrochemical Society | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Named "Thinker of the Year 2021" by Prospect Magazine | |
| Prof. David Harel | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Elected as next President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| Dr. Yael Hitron (in the group of Prof. Merav Parter) | Department of Mathematics | Best Student Paper Award at DISC'21 | |
| Prof. Rafal Klajn | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Chemistry | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of ECIS (European Colloid and Interface Society) 2021 Overbeek Gold Medal | |
| Prof. Tamir Klein | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient the Wiley Life Achievements Award for 2021 | |
| Dr. Shimon Kogan (in the group of Prof. Merav Parter) | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient the 2022 Symposium of Discrete Algorithm (SODA) Best Paper Award | |
| Prof. Leeor Kronik | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded an Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Prize for Excellence | |
| Prof. Meir Lahav | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the 2021 Wolf Prize in Chemistry | |
| Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the 2021 Wolf Prize in Chemistry | |
| Prof. Yaron Lipman | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award in Neurips 2021 | |
| Prof. Nir London | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Recipient the EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist or Chemical Biologist in Academia | |
| Dr. Rachel Mamlok-naaman | Department of Science Teaching | An IUPAC 2021 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering | |
| Dr. Adi Millman (in the group of Prof. Rotem Sorek) | Department of Molecular Genetics | The 2021 International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in Molecular Life Sciences | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient the 2021 IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry | |
| Prof. David Mukamel | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Elected as an Israel Physical Society (IPS) fellow | |
| Prof. Ron Naaman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Elected as a Member of the Academia Europaea | |
| Prof. Ron Naaman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry | |
| Guy Ohad (in the group of Prof. Leeor Kronik) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Best poster award IMEC 2021 | |
| Prof. Dan Oron | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Elected as a Fellow of the Optica (formerly OSA) Society | |
| Prof. Merav Parter | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Merav Parter | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient the 2022 Symposium of Discrete Algorithm (SODA) Best Paper Award | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | elected as a Honorary Member in the Physical Society of Uzbekistan | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Nominated as a member of the section of Physics and Engineering Sciences of the Academy of Europe | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Recipient a PhD honoris causa from the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid | |
| Prof. Rina Rosenzweig | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded the Hestrin Prize of the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |
| Noam Rozen | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award in Neurips 2021 | |
| Prof. Irit Sagi | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of the 2020 ICS-Adama Prize for Technological Innovation | |
| Prof. Yardena Samuels | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Prof. Ruth Scherz-shouval | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy | |
| Prof. Moran Shalev-benami | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Rotem Sorek | Department of Molecular Genetics | Awarded the Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the field of Biomedical Research | |
| Prof. Yonatan Stelzer | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Selected to be a member of EMBO Young Investigator Programme | |
| Asya Svirinovsky (in the group of Prof. Michal Leskes) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | 2021 poster award from the Israel Electrochemical Society | |
| Prof. Reshef Tenne | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts | |
| Dr. Ilia Tutunnikov (in the group of Prof. Yehiam Prior) | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the ICS Prize for an Excellent Graduate Student | |
| Prof. Milko Van der boom | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of an Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Research Excellence Award | |
| Prof. David Wallach | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Awarded an honorary Doctor in Science degree from Trinity College in Dublin | |
| Prof. Stephen Weiner | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded an Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal | |
| Prof. Yosef Yarden | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Elected to the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Bradford University |