Zvi Ben-Avraham#
| Membership Number: | 1744 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1996 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il/profile/zviba |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Founding Director, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa
- 2005 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2001 Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- 1986-present Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1982-1986 Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1989-present Max Sonnenberg Professor of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town
- 1982-1989 Professor of Geophysics (Research), Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
- 1979-1982 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
- 1981-1982 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1976-1981 Senior Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1975-1976 Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1973-1975 Senior Research Fellow, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd.
- 1973 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fields of Scholarship
- Continental Margins
- Structure and evolution of passive continental margins
- Levant continental margin
- Tectonic processes at active continental margins
- Pacific and Indian Oceans active margins
- Calabrian, Hellenic and Cyprean Arcs, eastern Mediterranean
- Sheared continental margins
- Agulhas margin
- Continental Transforms
- Dead Sea fault.
- San Andreas fault
- Philippine fault
- Collisional Processes at plate margins
Honours and Awards
- 1976 Grader Prize, Israel Geological Society
- 1981 Fellow, Geological Society of America
- 1984 Citation of excellence, USSR Academy of Sciences
- 1985 Freund Prize, Israel Geological Society
- 1985 Invited Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London
- 1989 Max Sonnenberg Chair of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town
- 1996 Foreign member, Academia Europaea
- 1998 Nebenzahl and Grossberg Chair in Geodynamics, Tel Aviv University
- 1999 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 2000 Corresponding member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2003 Israel Prize
- 2003 Honorary member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences
- 2004 L.Meitner-A.v. Humboldt Research Award
- 2006 Foreign member, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences
- 2014 Honorary member, Israel Geological Society
