•Education1981-1984 BSc, Bar-Ilan University, Dept. of Life Sciences, Ramat-Gan Israel
1984-1986 MSc, Dept. of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Thesis: The influence of environmental conditions on the relationship between Anemonia sulcata and its symbiotic algae (Hebrew with English abstract). Advisor: Prof. Zvy Dubinsky
1986-1992 PhD, Dept. of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Thesis: Harvesting and utilization of light by hermatypic corals (Hebrew with English abstract). Advisor: Prof. Zvy Dubinsky.
1992-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
2011-2016 Ben-Gurion University, Eilat Campus: Life Sciences Department, Marine biology and biotechnology
1998-2013 Israel Maritime College, Micmoret, Israel. Adjunct teacher.
1984-2009 The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Dept. of Geography. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Researcher/ Adjunct teacher.
2001-2016 Ministry of Environmental Protection. Monitoring of the Mediterranean Sea
2009-2013 School of Education Research, Bar-Ilan University. Biology education
2002-2010 Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Corals of the Gulf of Eilat
2002-2003 Red Sea Coral Farm Kfar Has. Coral culture and growth
1997-2000 Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. Marine Biology, Ecology, Coral reefs.
Expedition of the ocean organizing and participant in:
1994 Cruise to Antarctica with R/V Polarstern
1998 Cruise to Seychelles, Indian Ocean, R/V Sea Survey
1998 Cruise to Azores Islands, Atlantic Ocean, R/V Hesperides
1999 Cruise to the Red Sea, R/V Meteor
2002 Cruise to Indian Ocean, Seychelles, R/V Sea Survey
2004-2015 Cruises to the Israeli Shelf (Eastern Mediterranean), R/V Mediterranean Explorer
Part of the organizing committee of meetings and workshops
1991 Joint U.S-Israel Workshop on Marine Symbioses: Nutrient Limitation in the Symbiotic Association between Zooxanthellae and Reef-building Corals, Hawaii
2008 Organizer of 8th Group for Aquatic Primary Productivity (GAP) Workshop, Eilat
2010 Poster judge at the Euro ISRS Symposium, Wageningen, Holland
2010-2013 Auditing committee of the Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences (IAAS)
2013-2015 Member of the executive board of the Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences (IAAS)
2013-2015 Community organizer of the annual meeting of the Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences (IAAS)
2012-2016 Community organizer of the annual meeting of the the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (ISEES) 2012-2016 Member of the executive board of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (ISEES)
Reviewer for Scientific Journals
1995-2016 Coral Reef, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, Limnology and Oceanography, Hydrobiologia , Journal of Phycology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology, PLoS ONE, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Current Opinion in Environmentalsustainability, Aquatic Biology, Photosynthesis research, Frontier Marine Science..