Awarded to Scientific Personnel by External Entities

Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only

Name	Department	Honor
Prof. Gad Asher	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Awarded the Lindner Prize by the Israel Endocrine Society (IES)
Prof. Naama Barkai	Department of Molecular Genetics	Awarded the Rothschild Prize in Life Science
Prof. Naama Barkai	Department of Molecular Genetics	Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Dr. Haim Beidenkopf	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Elected as a Member of the Israel Young Academy
Dr. Ronen Eldan	Department of Mathematics	Awarded the Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Eran Elinav	Department of Immunology	Appointed as a Senior Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine
Dr. Baran Eren	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Appointed as a Zuckerman Faculty Scholar
Dr. Ayelet Erez	Department of Biological Regulation	Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Prof. Asher Friesem	Department of Physics of Complex Systems	Recipient of the Emmett N. Leith Medal from the Optical Society (OSA)
Prof. Lucio Frydman	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Awarded the Kolthoff Prize from the Technion for his Research in Alternavite Energy Resources
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Recipient of a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies
Prof. David Harel	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Reelected as the Vice President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Zohar Komargodski	Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics	Awarded a Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics
Prof. Meir Lahav	Department of Materials and Interfaces	Recipient of the EMET Prize in Chemistry Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation
Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz	Department of Materials and Interfaces	Recipient of the EMET Prize in Chemistry Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation
Dr. Michal Leskes	Department of Materials and Interfaces	Recipient of the ACS Energy and Fuels Division Glenn Best Paper Award
Dr. Emmanuel Levy	Department of Structural Biology	Awarded a Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research
Dr. Nir London	Department of Organic Chemistry	Recipient of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation-AACR Career Development Award
Prof. David Margulies	Department of Organic Chemistry	Recipient of a MSMLG Czarnik Emerging Investigator Award
Prof. David Milstein	Department of Organic Chemistry	Elected as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences
Prof. Itamar Procaccia	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Invited to present the Colloquium Ehrenfestii in Leiden
Prof. Yair Reisner	Department of Immunology	Recipient of the DKMS Mechtild Harf Science Award
Ms. Ayelet Sarel (in the group of Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky)	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of the Capranica Prize from the International Society of Neuroethology
Prof. Avigdor Scherz	Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences	The Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the field of Biomedical Research (together with the late Prof. Yoram Salomon)
Prof. Michal Schwartz	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of the iNNOVEX2018 Global Leader of Innovation Award
Prof. Michal Schwartz	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of an Honorary degree from Ha-Merkaz ha-Bentehumi Hertseliyya (IDC)
Prof. Adi Shamir	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Recipient of a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies
Prof. Michal Sharon	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Recipient of the Mass Spectrometry in the Life Sciences Award by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Massenspektrometrie (DGMS)
Prof. Yaron Silberberg	Department of Physics of Complex Systems	Awarded the Rothschild Prize in Chemical Sciences and Physical Sciences
Prof. Rotem Sorek	Department of Molecular Genetics	Elected as a member of EMBO
Prof. Rotem Sorek	Department of Molecular Genetics	Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Prof. Ady Stern	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Mr. Nitai Sylvetsky (in the group of Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin)	Department of Organic Chemistry	IBM-Zerner graduate student award of the 58th Sanibel Symposium from University of Florida
Prof. Reshef Tenne	Department of Materials and Interfaces	Invited as a Keynote Speaker of the UNAM - National Nanotechnology Research Center, Bilkent University
Prof. Edriss s. Titi	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Elected as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation
Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky	Department of Neurobiology	Former Student - Dr. Arseny Finkelstein - Awarded the FENS-Kavli Ph.D Thesis Prize for the best thesis in the field of Neuroscience in Europe
Dr. Igor Ulitsky	Department of Biological Regulation	Recipient of the James Heineman Research Award
Prof. David Wallach	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Awarded a Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Dr. Ofer Yizhar	Department of Neurobiology	Recipient of the Adelis Brain Research Award
Prof. Ada Yonath	Department of Structural Biology	Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Macau, China
Prof. Ada Yonath	Department of Structural Biology	Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University