Events & Lectures

22
Dec,
2024
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Plant and Environmental Sciences

Making Climate Tech Work – Policies that Drive Innovation

Prof. Alon Tal
Host: Prof. Ron Milo, IES Director
16
Jun,
2024
- 13:00

Plan A+ - How geoengineering using stratospheric aerosols could play a role in climate policy

Dr. Peter Irvine
Assistant Professor, University College London, Earth Sciences
05
May,
2024
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

The role of commercial biocontrol in sustainable agriculture: Current status and future trends

Dr. Shimon Steinberg
Chief Scientific Officer, BioBee Sde Eliyahu Ltd
31
Mar,
2024
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Science Literacy for All: Implications for Sustainability Education

Prof. David Fortus
Department of Science Teaching -WIS
04
Feb,
2024
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Using artificial intelligence to help cows go green

Dr. Yaniv Altshuler
MIT Media Lab
22
Oct,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

CANCELED: Using artificial intelligence to help cows go green

Dr. Yaniv Altshuler
MIT Media Lab
27
Sep,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Environmental performance using lifecycle assessment (LCA) for decision making - examples from NZ and AU

Dr. Noa Meron
Team lead LCA, thinkstep-anz
23
Jul,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Using artificial intelligence to help cows go green

Dr. Yaniv Altshuler
MIT Media Lab
02
Jul,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Advanced oxidation process for the enabling of a circular plastic economy

Dr. Noam Steinman
Lead Chemist, Plastic Back
07
May,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability: Energy, Food, and Trash

Prof. Catherine Middlecamp
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
23
Apr,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Model Farm for Sustainable Agriculture in Newe Ya’ar Research Center – Challenges and Opportunities

Prof. Hanan Eizenberg
Newe Ya'ar Research Center (ARO) Volcani Institute, Israel
19
Mar,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Innovation & Public Policy to Solve Climate Change

Mr. Ram Amar
CEO of Rewind.earth
15
Jan,
2023
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

The Israeli Climate Tech Ecosystem

Mr. Uriel Klar
Director of PLANETech
18
Dec,
2022
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Estimating Climate Change Mitigation Potential Through Dryland Forestation Actions

Shani Rohatyn-Blitz, PhD
Coordinator for Research and Foreign Relations Forestry Division, KKL-JNF Israel
30
Oct,
2022
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Supervision of fishing and nature conservation at sea

Mr. Guy Lavian
Head of marine rangers team, Central district, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
04
Sep,
2022
- 18:00

How members of the public can engage in effective political action for the climate

Dr. Seth Wynes
Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
03
Jul,
2022
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

FreezeM - making insect farming simple, sustainable, and scalable

Dr. Yuval Gilad
Co-Founder & CEO FreezeM
19
Jun,
2022
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Energy Storage with Rechargeable Batteries: Challenges from the Materials Science Perspective

Prof. Michal Leskes
Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Weizmann Institute of Science
29
May,
2022
- 13:00

Conservation outside protected areas: Designing multifunctional landscapes for the mutual benefit of people and biodiversity

Assaf Shwartz
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
16
May,
2022
- 15:00

Plant Death in the Anthropocene

Dr. William M. Hammond
Assistant Professor of Plant Ecophysiology, Agronomy Department, University of Florida, USA
02
May,
2022
- 15:00

Growing structural proteins into advanced materials for food security

Prof. Benedetto Marelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
03
Apr,
2022
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Poachers, Mammals and Birds The Endless Story

Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
20
Mar,
2022
- 13:00

A geologic perspective on anthropogenic climate change

Prof. Itay Halevy
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science
06
Feb,
2022
- 13:00

Environmental challenges and opportunities in the Red Sea - the last coral reef standing?

Prof. Maoz Fine
Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Interuniversity Insititute for Marine Science, Eilat
21
Nov,
2021
- 13:00

Synthesis of sustainable fuels and chemicals from waste, water and air

Prof. Erwin Reisner
University of Cambridge Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK
26
Jul,
2021
- 18:00

Our Changing Atmosphere: Carbon, Consequences, and Capture

Prof. Jeffrey A. Reimer
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of California Berkeley, California, USA
07
Jul,
2021
- 13:00

SAERI - Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative seminar series

Prof. Alice Larkin
Head of the School of Engineering and a researcher in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK
07
Jun,
2021
- 13:00

An unintended worldwide experiment: Impact of COVID-19 on the global chemical composition of the atmosphere

Prof. Dr. Guy Pierre Brasseur
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
03
May,
2021
- 18:00

Cooperative Carbon Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks

Prof. Jeffrey R. Long
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,University of California, Berkeley, USA
11
Apr,
2021
- 13:00

Wind turbines: are we replacing one environmental problem with another?”

Dr. Yehoshua Shkedy
Chief Scientist, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
16
Mar,
2021
- 13:00

Ecosystem ecology to inform global biodiversity restoration

Prof. Thomas Crowther
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
14
Feb,
2021
- 13:00

What’s beyond my water bill? The environmental impacts of the drinking water system in Israel - Implications for adopting life cycle thinking

Dr. Vered Blass
The Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Head of Innovations in Industrial Ecology Lab, Tel Aviv University, Israel
24
Jan,
2021
- 13:00

Exploring the potential of Angiosperm resurrection plants for food security in Africa

Prof. Jill M. Farrant
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, Uni. of Cape Town, South African Dept. of Science and Innovation & National Research Foundation South African Research Chair in Systems Biology Studies on Plant Desiccation Tolerance for Food Security. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
07
Dec,
2020
- 18:00

DROPLETS OF LIFE -Harvesting Water from Desert Air

Prof. Omar M. Yaghi
James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA Co-Director: Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, USA, California Research Alliance by BASF
22
Nov,
2020
- 13:00

The impact of oil spills on the reptiles in the Avrona reserve, Southern Arava valley

Prof. Amos Bouskila
Dept. of Life Sciences & Mitrani Dept. for Desert Ecology at the Blaustein Inst. for Desert Research Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
29
Mar,
2020
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Canceled: From an atomic-resolution mill to new engineering solutions for the climate crisis

Dr. Ye Tao
Rowland Fellow (PI) at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
22
Mar,
2020
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Canceled: Innovation and Sustainable Development

Prof. David Zilberman
Wolf Prize Laureate Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California Berkeley, USA
08
Mar,
2020
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Gas Discoveries in Israel

Prof. Adi Wolfson
Green Processes Center Sami Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva
09
Feb,
2020
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Energy Saving/Producing Wastewater Treatment Processes in the Context of Circular Economy

Prof. Isam Sabbah
Head of the Prof. Ephraim Katzir Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Braude College & Senior researcher at the Institute of Applied Research, the Galilee Society
19
Jan,
2020
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Shade maps for prioritizing municipal microclimatic action in hot climates

Prof. Or Aleksandrowicz
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
12
Jan,
2020
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Assessment of Potential Energy (mgh) Storage Opportunities

Prof. Alexander H. Slocum
Walter M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
15
Dec,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Science-based policy and knowledge gaps regarding Israel's Marine Environment

Dr. Dror Zurel
Marine Monitoring and Research Coordinator Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection Marine and Coastal Protection Division
15
Dec,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Science-based policy and knowledge gaps regarding Israel's Marine Environment

Dr. Dror Zurel
Marine Monitoring and Research Coordinator Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection Marine and Coastal Protection Division
24
Nov,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

The Green Revolution and the 20th Century Decline in Infant Mortality: Evidence from 600,000 births

Prof. Ram Fishman
Dept. Of Public Policy, Tel Aviv University
16
Jun,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Folding and cutting for clean energy – Origami and kirigami approaches to improving solar cells

Prof. Max Shtein
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Weston Family Visiting Professor, Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
02
Jun,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Molecular electronic materials for solar energy conversion: understanding structure-function relationships

Prof. Jenny Nelson
Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London, UK
19
May,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

Biomass Deconstruction and Conversion by Thermophiles: Towards Low Cost Production of cellulosic Biofuels and Biochemicals

Dr. Yannick J. Bomble
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
05
May,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

The technology-resources-sustainability nexus: Rare earth metals and emerging ‘green’ technologies

Tomer Fishman
School of Sustainability IDC Herzliya, Israel
07
Apr,
2019
- 13:00

Hydrogen Economy: From a Dream to Reality

Prof. Lior Elbaz
Department of Chemistry Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion Bar-Ilan University
13
Feb,
2019
- 13:00
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences

River Restoration – Regulatory point of view

Alon Zask
Senior Deputy Director General for Natural Resources Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection
06
Jan,
2019
- 13:00

Waste to Energy Infrastructure – Will it happen in Israel?

Tamar Raviv
Head of the Biodiversity and Open Spaces Division The Ministry of Environmental Protection
16
Dec,
2018
- 13:00

Economic Implications of Irrigation-Water Salinity

Dr. Iddo Kan
Department of Environmental Economics and Management and The Center for Agricultural Economics Research, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11
Nov,
2018
- 13:00
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

High-Tech in the Water sector - Big data approaches to increase efficiency in water networks

Amir Peleg,Founder & CEO TaKaDu Ltd.
10
Jun,
2018
- 13:00
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

A Nation-Wide Analysis of Tree Mortality Under Climate Change: Forest Loss in Israel 1948-2017

Prof. Tamir Klein
Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, WIS
29
Apr,
2018
- 13:00
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

The Israeli Electricity Market at a crossroads and its implications for renewable energies

Ms. Nurit Gal
VP, the Israeli Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA)
18
Feb,
2018
- 13:00
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

Towards an Interregional approach to sustainability in a globalizing interconnected world

Dr. Meidad Kissinger
Dept. of Geography and Environmental Development Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
14
Jan,
2018
- 13:00
Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

Israel's Renewable Energy Scheme: current status, opportunities and challenges

Mr. Honi Kabalo
Head of Renewable Energy Section in the Israeli Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA)