Arnon, Shai, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology

✔The study of the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment

✔The integration of hydrology, geochemistry, and environmental microbiology to predict the transport of reactive substances under complex aquatic environments

✔The study of the interaction between hydrodynamic conditions and biogeochemical processes in streams and wetlands

Gilor, Osnat, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology

✔The role of antimicrobials in biofilm formation

✔The diversity of soil bacteria and their role in the ecosystem

✔The use of molecular and experimental methods to study the processes and patterns of microbial ecology and evolution

Gross, Amit, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology

✔Issues related to water, effluent, and soil qualities as well as their impact on the environment

✔The search for practices to improve water and environmental quality related to contamination by different sources (i.e. aquaculture, wastewater, and saline water).

✔Ecological Sanitation (ECOSAN), aimed at developing and improving means for efficient use and reuse of natural resources

✔Recycling of water and nutrients through the reuse of marginal waters by green solutions

Hertzberg, Moshe, Department of Desalination and Water Treatment

✔Studies of bacterial biofilms and biofouling of membranes

✔The physico-chemical characteristics and the physiology of the biofouling layer in the membrane

✔Conditions promoting biofilm formation on membranes in water and wastewater treatment facilities

✔Mode of action of agents that interfere with biofilm formation

✔Mechanisms by which biofilms affect membrane performance

✔Conditions promoting initial bacterial attachment

✔The inhibition of biofilm growth mechanisms on "anti-biofouling" modified-surface membranes

Kaplan, Drora (Retired), Department of Hydrology and Microbiology

Kasher, Roni, Department of Desalination and Water Treatment

✔The development of novel membranes for water desalination and treatment

✔The use of synthetic-organic chemistry approaches to prepare membranes with improved surface properties and solute transport for nanofiltration and reverse-osmosis processes

✔Develop chemical methodologies to connect antimicrobial peptides to reverse-osmosis membranes without loss of peptide activity

✔The mineralization and fouling phenomena of water treatment membranes using novel approach that combines the preparation of unique 'clean' surfaces that mimic RO membrane surface, and evaluating the sorption of organic foulants, with analytical instruments

Nejidat, Ali, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology

✔Microbial ecology and the role of microorganisms in safeguarding environmental quality

✔Availability of water and water quality

✔Prevention of contamination of available water resources

✔Design of recycling schemes for wastewater reuse

✔Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of the chemolithotrophic nitrifying bacteria

✔Bacteria involved in the biodegradation of the environmentally hazardous halo-organics for the remediation of polluted sites

Ronen, Zeev, Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology

✔Bioremediation of contaminated groundwater and soil

✔Bio-treatment of industrial wastewater

✔Biodegradation of organic pollutants

✔Safe reuse of treated effluents

Soares, Ines, (retired)