BGU-FOR’s Researchers Network
Let's Get to Know Each Other
 | Prof. Lena Novack Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka University Medical Center Head, the Negev Environmental Health Research Institute (NEHRI) | Interdisciplinary research on environmental and climate-related health impacts. epidemiology, biostatistics, and public health. |
 | Prof. Aaron Fait French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
| Food security, fruit and seed quality, plant stress response, grapevine wine, metabolism, and metabolomics. |
 | Dr. Adi Stern Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences
| Mental health disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), eating disorders, depression, and anxiety. |
| Prof. Ariel Kushmaro Department of Biotechnology Engineering | Microbiology, development of various techniques for environmental sensing, biofilm, bacterial communication, bioremediation, and environmental microbiology. |
| Dr. Avner Gross Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics, and Urban Planning Sciences | Impact of an increase in man-made atmospheric CO2 concentrations on plants and oceans. Effects of future climatic scenarios on the nutritional values of crop plants such as wheat and chickpea. |
| Dr. Carolina Tenenbaum - Baruchi School of Public Health | Audiology and hearing disorders, cultural studies on deafness, auditory technologies, hearing-impaired children, and individuals. |
| Lt. Col. Daniel Albo-Arama School of Public Health | Paramedic and emergency medicine. Building models to provide medical services in emergencies. |
| Prof. Danit Shahar Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Community Health Sciences | Public health, nutrition, epidemiology, geriatrics, diet, cognitive function, and weight disorders. |
| Prof. Dina Zilberg French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research | Fish Farming. |
| Prof. Florina Uzefovsky The Duet Center, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Developmental, social, and clinical psychology combined with molecular biology. The biological mechanisms that drive different developmental paths. |
 | Prof. Gal Ifergane Division of Brain Medicine, Soroka Medical Center | Clinical Neurologist. Neurological disorders, with a focus on headache medicine. Collaborations with researchers in various fields and the creation of clinical datasets. |
 | Dr. Gal Zagron Ministry of Environmental Protection | One Health Expert - connecting health on earth: Human, Animals, and Environment. |
 | Prof. Hadas Hawlena The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology | Ecology and Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions. |
 | Prof. Halleli Pinson Presidential Advisor for Gender Equity, School of Education | Changing role of schooling in the age of education. The right to and the right of education in the context of global migration. |
 | Prof. Inna Khozin-Goldberg Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research | Sustainable production of microalgal biomass and products from waste resources. Developing natural, sustainable treatments and dietary supplements. |
 | Prof. Jacob Moran-Gilad Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health | Development and validation of laboratory methods for rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases and the study of the molecular epidemiology of various pathogens of public health. Integration and application of such methods in health protection. |
 | Prof. Mark Last Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering | Data Science, time-dependent data analysis, and natural language processing. |
 | Prof. Meidad Kissinger The Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics, and Urban Planning Sciences | Environmental policy and planning, biophysical analysis of urban activities and waste generation, the implications of global environmental trends to local sustainability, bio-physical/ecological accounting, and policy support tools. |
 | Prof. Michael Danilenko Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology | Mechanistic and therapeutic aspects of synergistic anticancer activities of natural and synthetic compounds. Dietary regulation of vitamin D metabolism and cancer prevention. |
 | Dr. Moran Koren Department of Industrial Engineering and Management | Design of efficient allocation systems in real-world scenarios, through the understanding of the incentives and strategic behavior of agents in the system. |
 | Prof. Moriah Ellen Department of Health Systems Management | Health systems and policy, knowledge transfer and exchange, implementation science, addressing the overuse of health services, and aging. |
 | Prof. Naama Atzaba-Poria The Duet Center, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Research about children, parenting, and community resilience aspects. In particular, children’s feeding disorder, empathy abilities, and parenting in stressful life conditions, as well as poverty and welfare services. |
 | Prof. Nadav Davidovich School of Public Health | Public health, food insecurity caused by gaps in society, and the effects of climate change on health issues. |
 | Prof. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby Department of the Arts | Early Modern Global Studies. Analysis of sermons and religious plays, using an art historical approach and visual images. Fluent in Latin and Italian. |
 | Dr. Rafi Grosglik Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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 | Prof. Noemi Tel-Zur French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands | |
 | Prof. Raz Jelinek Vice-President & Dean for Research & Development | Identification and molecular mechanisms that explain the health advantages of probiotic foods. Development of sensors for the detection of food-born bacteria in spoiled food products. |
 | Dr. Rinat Avraham School of Nursing Science & FoodLab | Nutrition, physical activity, behavioral changes to promote healthier lifestyles. |
 | Prof. (Emeritus) Roni Strier Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion at the University of Haifa. Poverty, inequality, social services, and social policy. |
 | Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research | Whole plant ecophysiology and acclimation to abiotic stress. |
 | Dr. Shimrit Maman Research Associate and Laboratory Director | Earth and Planetary Image Facility (EPIF) |
 | Dr. Stav Shapira Department of Emergency Medicine | Disaster resilience, disaster epidemiology, and vulnerable populations in emergencies (e.g., older persons, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities). |
 | Dr. Talia Meital Schwartz-Tayri Department of Social Work | Quality of social services, assessment of national welfare programs, and prediction of the resilience of families and individuals using big data to foster children’s resilience over time. |
 | Dr. Tamar Makov Faculty of Business & Management | Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Consumption, Sharing Sustainable Food Systems, Economy, Circular Economy |
 | Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research | |
 | Tzlil Rabinovitz Sassoon The Duet Center, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Bringing together people interested in therapy, research, education, and policy, who work together to create knowledge and treatment methods for children and how to integrate them into the community. |
 | Prof. Yaron Ziv School of Sustainability and Climate Change | A community and spatial ecologist who studies evolutionary and ecological drivers of biodiversity processes and patterns at different spatiotemporal scales. |
 | Dr. Yuval Saar-Heiman The Duet Center, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | The intersection between poverty and inequality. Specialized in the care of children and families at risk and in danger in the children’s protection systems. |
 | Dr. Zvi Howard Perry Medical School of International Health | A general surgeon and an epidemiologist. Advancing the field of quality improvement in Israel and trying to add institutions and research bodies to enhance these fields. |
Academic Partners
 | Prof. Zohar Kerem The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University |
 | Prof. Shahal Abbo Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University |
 | Prof. Efrat Monsonego Ornan Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University |
 | Prof. Ram Reifen Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University |
 | Prof. Ruth Birk The Personalized Medicine and Nutrition Genetics Lab, Ariel University |
 | Dr. Michal Efrat Department of Nutritional Sciences, Ariel University |
 | Prof. Hanoch Senderowitz Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University |
 | Dr. Alon Shepon Department of Environmental Studies, Tel-Aviv University |
 | Dr. Sigal Tepper Department of Nutritional Sciences, Tel-Hai College |
 | Dr. Loai Basheer Department of Food Sciences, The Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Tel Hai College
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 | Dr. Faiga Magzal Department of Nutrition Sciences, The Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Tel Hal Academic College and The Human Health and Nutrition Sciences Laboratory, MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute
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 | Dr. Andrea Szuchman-Sapir Department of Nutrition Sciences, The Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Tel Hal , MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute |
