Awards And Honors
Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only
| Name | Department | Honor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon (in the group of Prof. Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna) | Department of Molecular Genetics | Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award | |
| Prof. Ruth Arnon | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Bar Ilan University | |
| Dr. Emanuel Avrahami (in the group of Prof. Assaf Gal) | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize | |
| Prof. Brian Berkowitz | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Recipient of the Israel Association of Urologists group award for Outstanding Research in Endourology 2022 | |
| Idan Biran (in the group of Prof. Boris Rybtchinski) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded an outstanding poster award in Crystal Engineering 2022 in the Gordon Research Conferences | |
| Prof. Zvika Brakerski | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the 2022 Goedel Prize | |
| Dr. Ori Brookstein (in the group of Prof. Ulyana Shimanovich) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the 2022 Yael Mutsafi Memorial Prize in the field of Microscopy applied to Life Sciences. | |
| Dr. Nirman Chakraborty (in the group of Prof. Eli Zeldov) | Department of Condensed Matter Physics | Best Ph.D thesis in Materials Science | |
| Prof. Nir Davidson | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) | |
| Prof. Irit Dinur | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award | |
| Prof. Irit Dinur | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the STOC 2022 Best Paper Award | |
| Prof. Eytan Domany | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Elected as an Israel Physical Society (IPS) fellow | |
| Ofir Eisenberg (in the group of Prof. Milko Van Der Boom) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded ?Molecular Systems Design & Engineering? poster prize, by the Royal Society of Chemistry at SupraChem 2022 | |
| Dr. Chen Eitan (in the group of Prof. Eran Hornstein) | Department of Molecular Genetics | Awarded the 14th Medicine PG Award 2022 | |
| Dr. Chen Eitan (in the group of Prof. Eran Hornstein) | Department of Molecular Genetics | Awarded the 2022 ENCALS Young Investigator Award | |
| Prof. Ronen Eldan | Department of Mathematics | Recipient of the 2023 New Horizons in Mathematics prize | |
| Prof. Ronen Eldan | Department of Mathematics | Recipient of the 2022 Blavatnik Award in Israel Laureate in Physical Sciences & Engineering | |
| Prof. Eran Elinav | Department of Systems Immunology | Elected as a member of the American Academy of Microbiology | |
| Prof. Zelig Eshhar | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the ICS (Israel Chemical Society) Prize for Excellence | |
| Dr. Gily Ginosar (in the group of Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky) | Department of Brain Sciences | Awarded the Capranica Prize for the 2021 best paper in Neuroethology | |
| Prof. Jonathan Gressel | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the International Parasitic Plant Society | |
| Dr. Rebecca Haffner-krausz | Department of Veterinary Resources | Elected as a member of The International Society for Transgenic Technologies Board of Directors | |
| Prof. Gilad Haran | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Recipient of the Nakanishi Prize of the American Chemical Society | |
| Prof. Shalev Itzkovitz | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Recipient of the Rappaport Prize for a Young Scientist | |
| Prof. Meir Lahav | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| Prof. Meir Lahav | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient the Career Award from the PROTEOMASS Scientific Society at IC3EM 2022 | |
| Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| Prof. Alexander Lubotzky | Department of Mathematics | Elected as an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | |
| Prof. Alexander Lubotzky | Department of Mathematics | Awarded the STOC 2022 Best Paper Award | |
| Prof. Rafi Malach | Department of Brain Sciences | Recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences | |
| Prof. Ron Naaman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal | |
| Prof. Moni Naor | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the 2022 IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics | |
| Prof. Eli Pollak | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) | |
| Prof. Sivan Refaely-abramson | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Dr. Efrat Resnick | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded the Israel Chemical Society (ICS)-Uri Golik Prize for an Excellent Graduate Student | |
| Prof. Rina Rosenzweig | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded the 2022 Russell Varian Young Investigator Award | |
| Prof. Varda Rotter | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy (AACR) | |
| Prof. Samuel Safran | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics | |
| Prof. Jacob Sagiv | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the 2022 Kavli Prize | |
| Prof. Yardena Samuels | Department of Molecular Cell Biology | Elected as the President of the European Association for Cancer Research | |
| Prof. Michal Schwartz | Department of Brain Sciences | Recipient of the 2022 FENS EJN Award | |
| Prof. Adi Shamir | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
| Dr. Adar Sharon (in the group of Prof. Ofer Aharony) | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the Amos De-Shalit Prize for an Outstanding Thesis | |
| Vivek Singh (in the group of Prof. Milko Van Der Boom) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Best poster award ICCC 2022 | |
| Vivek Singh (in the group of Prof. Milko Van Der Boom) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the best talk award at the 7th International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates | |
| Vivek Singh (in the group of Prof. Milko Van Der Boom) | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the Best poster prize from the 16th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC-16) | |
| Prof. Rotem Sorek | Department of Molecular Genetics | Awarded the Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais | |
| Prof. Rotem Sorek | Department of Molecular Genetics | Elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Germany, Leopoldina | |
| Prof. Rotem Sorek | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Prof. Noam Stern-ginossar | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the 2022 Blavatnik Awards in Israel Laureate in Life Sciences. | |
| Prof. Noam Stern-ginossar | Department of Molecular Genetics | Elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy | |
| Prof. Reshef Tenne | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials | |
| Prof. Edriss s. Titi | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Invited to deliver a Plenary talk at the 2022 Annual SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) | |
| Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky | Department of Brain Sciences | Recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation | |
| Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky | Department of Brain Sciences | Elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
| Prof. Igor Ulitsky | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of the Meitner Humboldt Research Award | |
| Prof. Milko Van der boom | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the Research Award from the PROTEOMASS Scientific Society | |
| Prof. Milko Van der boom | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry | |
| Prof. Daniel hanoch Wagner | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts | |
| Gal Yona (in the group of Prof. Guy Rothblum) | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the 2022 Blavatnik Prize for Outstanding Israeli Doctoral Students in Computer Science | |
| Prof. Ada Yonath | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society of London |

