Fellowships

Food security is the challenge of producing food for the human population sustainably while controlling greenhouse gas emissions and preserving water availability. To encourage research related to food and water security, the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Food Security in the Desert is announcing a yearly call for fellowships to support graduate students (master and Ph.D.) who study food and water security in arid environments.

The fellowship receipts during the Food Security MERIT Symposium, July 2023 with Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, Prof. Rachmileitch and Prof. Lazarovitch.

Call for Applicants Food Security MERIT 2022 >>

Call for Applicants Food Security MERIT 2023 >>

Food Security MERIT Fellowship 2023 Receipts

Name	Surname	Title of the research
Abdul-Kareem	Turaani	Minimizing Brine Discharge by Membrane Distillation Technology to Safeguard Aquatic Ecosystems.
Asaf	Yupiter Vanunu	Near-real-time detection of wildfires using geostationary satellites and machine learning model.
Aviad	Perry	Regulation of plant transpiration by carbohydrate availability.
Avital	Friedjung Yosef	The Microbiome Wolffia and its rule in B12 biosynthesis.
Chigozie	Uja	Characterisation of hydrothermally treated human excreta, focusing on the aqueous phase, fate of micropollutants and plant growth inhibitors.
Khin	Maw Kyi	The effect of water scarcity on biological soil crust phototrophs which prevent wind soil erosion and reduce sandstorm.
Nadav	Bekin	The effect of Non-rainfall water inputs on soil CO2 fluxes in dry desert soils.
Rashika	Solomon	The Role of Irrigation Water Quality and Gypsum application form on Reclamation of Saline and Sodic Soil.
Ru	Liu	Recovering phosphorus from effluents by integrating sorption and bipolar membranes electrodialysis.
Thanh	Nguyen Van	Lipid class composition, EPA distribution and antioxidant properties of a novel microalgae influenced by nutrient and irradiation regimes.
Yaniv	Lupo	The roles of rootstocks and different leaf ages in grapevines’ salt tolerance.
Yonatan	Yekutiel	Development of a new approach for optimizing nitrogen fertilizer application by a novel technology of real-time soil nitrate monitoring.
Zai Du	Nja	The Effect of Molybdenum and Sulfur on Arabidopsis Aldehyde Oxidases Exposed to Stress.
Amro	Sweedan	Hybrid plasmonic immunosensor for plant pest monitoring.
Hao	Huang	A mixed charged polyelectrolyte complex nanofiltration membrane: mitigating scaling in effluents desalination.
Hsu Yee	Htet	Elucidating the mechanisms of tolerance of LC-PUFA producing microalgae to oxidative stress conditions.
Michael	Kusibu Mba	Cyanobacterial Polysaccharides and their Potential for Water-saving Agriculture in Arid Regions.