The Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change Biology, Biodiversity and Conservation

Researcher's Name	Email	Department	Field
Prof. Yaron Ziv - Head of the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change	yziv@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Spatial Ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation, Agroecolgy, Restoration Ecology
Prof. Uri Abdu	abdu@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Sustainability in agriculture (poultry), a genetic mechanism for determining color in chickens, species invasion
Prof. Lital Alfonta	alfontal@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Synthetic Environmental Biology
Prof. Simon Barak	simon@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Plant Molecular Responses to Environmental Stresses
Dr. Shirli Bar-David	shirlibd@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Nature Conservation, Genetics of Nature Conservation
Prof. Edo Bar-Zeev	edobarzeev@gmail.com	The Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology	Aquatic Microbiology
Prof. Dudy Bar-Zvi	barzvi@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Plant Genetic and Biochemistry, Response to Stress
Dr. Oded Berger-Tal	bergerod@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Animal behavior and nature conservation
Prof. Amos Bouskila	bouskila@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Predator-Prey Interactions, Reptile and Mammal Ecology, Mathematical Models for Decision Making in Animals, Conservation, Reintroduction
Dr. Yariv Brotman	brotmany@post.bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Metabolomics, Genetics of Plants
Prof. Daniel Chamovitz	president@bgu.ac.il	President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Plant Science
Prof. Aaron Fait	fait@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Food Security, Fruit and Seed Quality, Plant Stress Response, Grapevine Wine, Metabolism, Metabolomics
Dr. Itamar Giladi	itushgi@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Ecology, Spatial Ecology, Dispersal, Conservation
Prof. Osnat Gillor	gilloro@bgu.ac.il	The Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology	Microbial Ecology
Prof. Gideon Grafi	gggrafi@gmail.com	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Plant Stress Response
Dr. Hadas Hawlena	hadashaw@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Ecology and Evolution of host-parasite interactions,
Dr. Nina Kamennaya	ninaka@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Ecology, Physiology and Biotechnology of Cyanobacteria
Prof. Khalil Kashkush	kashkush@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Genetics and Genomics of Populations, Transposons, Biodiversity of Wild Wheat
Prof. Inna Khozin-Goldberg	khozin@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Sustainable Production of Microalgal Biomass and Products on Waste Resources, Mechanisms and Deployment of Luxury P Uptake, Developing Natural Sustainable Treatments and Dietary Supplements
Prof. Moshe Kiflawi	mkiflawi2@gmail.com	Department of Life Sciences	Ecology, Marine Environments, Reef fishes
Dr. Max Kolton	MaxKolton@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Microbial Ecology of Drylands Ecosystems
Prof. Carmi Korine	ckorine@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Ecological Physiology, Agroecology, Urban Influences, Biodiversity and Alternative Energies, Desert Mammals, Bats
Prof. Burt Kotler	kotler@bgu.ac.il	Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology	Evolutionary ecology
Prof. Boris Krasnov	krasnov@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Ecology, Evolution, mammal Zoology, Mcroecology
Prof. Dan Mishmar	dmishmar@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Genetics, Genomics and Evolution of Mitochondria
Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi	imizrahi@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Microbial Ecology
Prof. Ariel Novoplansky	anovopla@bgu.ac.il	- Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology	Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolution
Prof. Ofer Ovadia	oferovad@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Evolution, Community Ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation
Dr. Shai Pilosof	pilos@post.bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Ecology, Evolution, Biological Networks
Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch	rshimon@bgu.ac.il	Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Plant Ecophysiology
Dr. Ido Regev	regevid@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Environmental Physics, Granular Materials, Wetting and Dehydration, Plant Growth
Dr. Uri Roll	uriroll@bgu.ac.il	Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology	Conservation Science, Spatial Ecology, Macroecology
Prof. Zeev Ronen	zeevrone@bgu.ac.il	The Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology	Environmental Microbiology
Prof. Amir Sagi	sagia@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Molecular Physiology of Aquatic Crustacea, Sustainable Aquaculture, Biological Control
Prof. Moshe Sagi	gizi@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Acclimatization of Lopite Plants, Aging in Plants, halophytes plants
Dr. Michal Segoli	msegoli@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology of Insects, Biological Control
Prof. Merav Seifan	seifan@bgu.ac.il	The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Plant Ecology, Plant-Animal Relationships, Grazing, Pollination
Prof. Andrei Sharf	asharf@bgu.ac.il	The Department of Computer Science	Geometry processing, visual computing, deep learning, shape modeling
Prof. Nadav Shashar	nadavsh@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Marine Ecology, Sensory Ecology, Conservation and Restoration of Marine Environments
Prof. Yaron Sitrit	sitrit@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Desert Mycorrhizal Fungi, Fruit Ripening, CAM Plants
Prof. Noemi Tel-Zur	telzur@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Plant Science, Cytogenetics and Plant Genetics, Physiology, New Crops, Fruit trees
Dr. Vered Tzin	vtzin@bgu.ac.il	Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies	Plant-Insect Interaction, plant metabolism, plant molecular biology, chemical ecology
Prof. Michele Zaccai	mzaccai@bgu.ac.il	Department of Life Sciences	Plant Sciences
Prof. Dina Zilberg	dzilberg@bgu.ac.il	French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands	Fish Farming