Zvi Ben-Avraham - Curriculum vitae#
Born: November 16, 1941, Jerusalem, Israel
Position: Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Education:
- 1969 B.Sc. with honors, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem(Geology)
- 1973 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Geophysics). Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Structural framework of the Sunda Shelf and Vicinity. Name of supervisors: Prof. K.O. Emery, Dr. C.O. Bowin, Prof. N.M. Toksoz
Professional Positions:
- 1973 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 1973-1975 Senior Research Fellow, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd.
- 1975-1976 Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1976-1981 Senior Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1981-1982 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1979-1982 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
- 1982-1989 Professor of Geophysics (Research), Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
- 1989-present Max Sonnenberg Professor of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town.
- 1982-1986 Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1986-present Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 2001 Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- 2005 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2007 Founding Director, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa
Professional Activities:
- 1975-1980 Member of IDOE program of studies of East Asia Tectonics and resources
- 1978-present Member of the review panel, Commission for the Geological Map of the World
- 1981-1982 Vice President, Peninsula Geological Society, California
- 1981-present Member, Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere, International Council of Scientific Unions
- 1984-1994 Board of Directors, Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics, Israel
- 1984-1994 Scientific Committee, Gordon Center for Energy Studies, Tel Aviv University
- 1985-1990 Board of Directors, Interuniversity Institute of Marine Studies, Elat, Israel
- 1985-1986 President, Israel Geological Society
- 1985-2001 Associate Editor, Tectonics, American Geophysical Union
- 1987-present Associate Editor, Annales Tectonicae
- 1987-1991 Chairman, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- 1992-2006 Associate Editor, Tectonophysics, Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V.
- 1992-1999 Associate Editor, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences.
- 1993-present Associate Editor, Russian Geology and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1995-present Director, Minerva Dead Sea Research Center, Tel Aviv University.
- 1996-1998 Research Foundation Committee, Tel Aviv University.
- 2000-2002 Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University.
- 2004-2005 Academic Planning Committee, Tel Aviv University
- 2004-present Chairman, Israel National Committee IUGS
- 2008-present Scientific Advisor to the President of the State of Israel
- 2009 Search Committee, Editor of Tectonics, American Geophysical Union
Honors 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
Professional Societies:
- American Geophysical Union
- Geological Society of America
- Sigma Xi (M.I.T. Chapter)
- European Geosciences Union
- Israel Geological Society
- Israel Geophysical and Geodetic Society
Supervision of PhD and MSc Students and of Post Doctoral Fellows:
- 27 PhD Students
- 33 MSc Students
- 5 Post Doctoral Fellows
