Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Rotem Sorek Office: Meyer Building, Room 210A Tel: +972-8-934-6342 Fax: +972-8-934-4018 E-mail: rotem.sorek@weizmann.ac.il

Employment Positions
06/2018 - Present	Full Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2014 - 2018	Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
2008 - 2014	Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
2006 - 2008	Post-doctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA.
2004 - 2005	Compugen Ltd. Group Leader, Genomic Basic Research
2000 - 2004	Compugen Ltd. Researcher
Education
2002 - 2007	Ph.D., Human Genetics, Tel Aviv University Awarded with distinction
2000 - 2002	M.Sc. Genetics, Tel Aviv University Graduated summa cum laude
1998 - 2000	B.Sc. Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University Graduated summa cum laude
Teaching
2009 - present	Lecturer at the "RNA world" course, Weizmann Institute of Science
2009 - 2010	Lecturer at the "Introduction to Computational Genomics" course, Weizmann Institute of Science
2006	Lecturer at the “Advanced Genomics” course, the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 - 2006	Lecturer at the “Genonics, proteomics and microarrays” course, the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
2005	Organizer and lecturer of “Advanced topics in alternative splicing” workshop, as part of the bioinformatics workshop series at the Weizmann institute

Honors
2023	HFSP Nakasone Award
2022	Michael Bruno Memorial Award
2022	Michael Landau Prize for Arts and Sciences
2022	Elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2021	The Andre Deloro Prize for Scientific Research
2021	Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research
2019	Beutler Research Program Award for Excellence in Genomic Medicine
2018	Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology
2018	Elected as an EMBO member
2016	Scientific Council Prize
2016	ERC-CoG Award Recipient
2015	Elected to the European Academy of Microbiology
2014	FEBS Anniversary Prize
2013	Teva Founders Award for outstanding young scientists in Life Sciences
2012	Appointed as a member of the national "Young Israel Academy of Sciences"
2012	The Rubinowitz-Grossman Prize for outstanding young scientists, the Israel Society for Microbiology
2011	ERC-StG Award Recipient
2010	EMBO Young Investigator
2009	Alon Fellowship
2008	Clore Prize Recipient
2006	The RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award
2005	ISMB Fellowship
2004	Clore Foundation Doctoral Prize
2003	Constantiner Scholarship
2001	National Excellence Award, Israeli House of Representatives
2001	Rector’s list, Tel Aviv University
2001	Dean’s scholarship for M.Sc. studies, Tel Aviv University
1999	Dean's list, Tel Aviv University
1999	De-Shalit foundation award, Weizmann Institute of Science
1998	B.Sc. Scholarship, the research track for excellent students, Tel Aviv University