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 EconomicsUniversity 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)