Taleb Mokari received a Bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2000, a M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry under the supervision of Uri Banin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002 and a Ph.D. from the same group in 2006; his thesis was awarded summa cum laude.  He was a Fulbright and an Ilan Ramon postdoctoral fellow with Peidong Yang at the University of California, Berkeley for one year. He joined the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a staff scientist in 2007. He joined the Department of Chemistry and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2009 as a faculty member and promoted to associate professor (tenured) in 2012. He has received the Chorofas Award (2004), the Eshkol Scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Israel (2005-2007), the Intel-Dean Prize (2005), the Kaye Award for Innovation (2005), the Israel Chemical Society Award (2006), the Schlomiuk Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis (2007), the Fulbright Fellowship for Postdoctoral Studies (2006-2007), Ilan Ramon Fellowship for the Best Fulbright Fellow (2007), the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2006). Since joining the department of chemistry at BGU, he recieved the Dean’s honors for excellent researcher from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at BGU (2010,2013), and the Ma’of Fellowship, established by the Kahanoff Foundation (2011); and he has been awarded the Wolf Foundation’s Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research (2011). In 2011 he received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and in 2012 he has been appointed as a member of the Young Academy of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

His research focuses on the chemical and physical properties of inorganic nanostructures. His group specializes on systhesizing nanostructures, investigating their fundamental physical and chemical properties, and studying their potential applications for renewable energy.