FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Krill Prizes for Excellence in Scientific Research are awarded in Honor and in Memory of BENJAMIN AND GITLA KRILL MANSBACH SHLANGER Z'L. Born in Germany, in 1912, he was married to Debora Kretzig Stelzer Z'L. From 1938 on, Mr. Kril Shlanger was highly active on behalf of the community in South America, Where he established a fund for the needy. He died in October 2007.
Six Krill Prizes, of $10,000 each, are awarded annually, in Exact Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Agriculture and Engineering, to excelling faculty members at the Universities in Israel, who hold the untenured positions of Lecturer, or Senior Lecturer.
Recipients are selected by the Wolf Foundation Scholarship Committee, from among outstanding candidates, submitted by all Israeli Universities. The selection is made on the basis of the candidate´s excellence and the importance of his or her field of research.
The Krill Prizes for Excellence in Scientific Research, funded by the Krill Family, were first awarded in March 2005.
RECIPIENTS OF THE KRILL PRIZE FOR 2010
Dr. Masha Niv (born 1969, Russia)
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests:
Modeling and simulations of protein interactions and dynamics, study of cellular processes and rational design of cell signaling modulators, including peptides. Focus on protein kinases and transmembrane receptors, such as receptors for taste.
Dr. Dan Thomas Major (born 1973, Norway)
Faculty of Exact Sciences
Chemistry Department
Bar-Ilan University
Research interests:
Development and application of theoretical methods for the study of biological systems and nano-materials.
Dr. Eran Halperin (born 1974, Israel)
Faculty of Exact Sciences & Life Science Faculty
The Blavatnick School of Computer Science & Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology,Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Computational Genetics - development of computational methods for the analysis of genetic variation in the context of complex diseases.
Dr. Ehud Altman (born 1972, Israel)
Faculty of Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Research interests:
Novel phases, phase transitions and dynamics in strongly correlated quantum matter.
Dr. Kinneret Keren (born 1972, Israel)
Faculty of Physics
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
Biophysics, biological self-organization, actin-based cell motility, artificial cells.
Dr. Anne Bernheim (born 1969, France)
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
The Chemical Engineering Department
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Research interests:
Research of the emerging field of Synthetic Biology, in which simple molecular elements are used to build artificial synthetic devices for medical and biotechnological applications
RECIPIENTS OF THE KRILL PRIZE FOR 2009
Dr. Eli C. Lewis (born 1970, Israel)
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Research interests:
Focusing on the sensitivity of insulin producing cells in our bodies, the research opens a window of opportunities for a possible cure for Diabetes using a safe and available therapy.
Dr. Debbie Lindell (born 1964, Australia)
Faculty of Biology
Israel Institute of Technology – Technion
Research interests:
Interactions between marine viruses and their globally important phytoplankton hosts: Impacts on physiology, photosynthesis, population dynamics and genome evolution.
Dr. Boaz Tsaban (born 1973, Israel)
Faculty of Exact Sciences
Bar-Ilan University
Research interests:
Combinatorics, in the broad sense: Applications of infinitary combinatorics in topology and in functional analysis; Ramsey Theory; Combinatorial group theory.
Dr. Ilan Koren (born 1964, Israel)
Faculty of Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science
Research interests:
Cloud physics and radiation transfer in the atmosphere, anthropogenic effects on cloud microphysical and optical properties and the derived effects on climate
Dr. Nathalie Questembert-Balaban (born 1966, France)
Faculty of Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests:
Biological Physics of dynamical processes in living cells.
Dr. Julia Kempe (born 1973, Germany)
Faculty of Exact Sciences
Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Quantum computation and information: algorithms, complexity, fault-tolerance and cryptography.
RECIPIENTS OF THE KRILL PRIZE FOR 2008
Dr. Shiri Artstein-Avidan (born 1978, Israel)
School of Mathematical Science, Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Convexity in High Dimensions, Duality Theory.
Dr. Roy Bar-Ziv (born 1966, Israel)
Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
Research interests:
Multi-disciplinary research on artificial biological systems and active biochips; the physics of micro-fluidic crystals.
Dr. Eli Berger (born 1975, Israel)
Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa
Research interests:
Combinatorics and, in particular, Graph Theory, Matroid Theory and topological
methods in Combinatorics.
Dr. Ido Dagan (born 1960, Israel)
Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Research interests:
Natural Language Processing (Computational Linguistics) and textual information access, applied semantics, learning methods, applications including search, information extraction and text categorization.
Dr. Yuval Dor (born 1968, Israel)
Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests
Development and tissue dynamics in the pancreas, in particular insulin-producing beta cells; mechanisms of regeneration and organ size control.
Dr. Jeff Steinhauer (born 1966, USA)
Faculty of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
Studying a cold gas of atoms, called a 'Bose Einstein condensate' (similar to a laser, but composed of atoms), including a variety of effects in this system, such as tunneling of neutral atoms in the Josephson effect.
RECIPIENTS OF THE KRILL PRIZE FOR 2007
Dr. Amir Orian (Oryan) (born 1964, Israel)
Faculty of Medicine, Technion -Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
Function and regulation of genetic networks in developmental biology and in cancer.
Dr. Tal Alexander (born 1963, Israel)
Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Research interests:
Massive black holes, in particular the one in our Galaxy; stellar dynamics, interactions and processes near a massive black hole, including gravitational lensing and gravitational waves.
Dr. Zeev Zalevsky (born 1971, Russia)
School of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
Research interests:
Free space optical systems and methods for enhanced imaging and sensing, electro-optical in-fiber and waveguide-based devices for data sensing, processing and RF-photonics.
Dr. Oren Froy (born 1968, Israel)
Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests:
Biological clock control over metabolism, the innate immune system, metabolic disorders and aging.
Dr. Yoav Tsori (born 1968, Israel)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Research interests:
Theoretical description of ways to control structures at the sub-micron scale. In particular, how external fields induce new types of phase-transitions in liquids, polymers and other ordered phases of soft-matter.
Dr. Roded Sharan (born 1971, Israel)
School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Systems biology with a focus on comparative analysis of protein networks, computational genomics and graph algorithms.
RECIPIENTS OF THE KRILL PRIZE FOR 2006
Dr. Dorit Aharonov (born 1970, U.S.A.)
School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests:
Quantum algorithms, fault tolerant quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and the quantum-classical transition from a computational point of view.
Dr. Eli Barkai (born 1964, Israel)
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University
Research interests:
Statistical mechanics of nano-systems, weak ergodicity breaking, and quantum optics of single emitters.
Dr. Shulamit Levenberg (born 1969, Israel)
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
Stem cell tissue engineering, vascularization of engineered tissues, differentiation
of cells on polymeric scaffolds, glaucoma.
Dr. Itamar Simon (born 1966, Israel)
Department of Molecular Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests:
Applying genomic tools for studying transcription regulation in normal and cancer cells, particularly the human cell cycle, the identification of P53 target genes and genome-wide determination of chromatin structure.
Dr. Tal Pupko (born 1972, Israel)
Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Molecular evolution, Bioinformatics.
Dr. Leeor Kronik (born 1970, Israel)
Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science
Research interests:
Understanding and predicting electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of materials from first principles quantum mechanical theory.
RECIPIENTS OF THE KRILL PRIZE FOR 2005
Dr. Yonina C. Eldar (born 1973, Canada)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
Developing algorithms for the representation and processing of signals, with a focus on parameter estimation techniques, sampling theory, signal processing for communication systems, detection in quantum channels, and optimization methods for signal processing.
Dr. Ehud Behar (born 1967, Israel)
Faculty of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Research interests:
X-Ray astrophysics, stellar coronae, supernova remnants, active galaxies, plasma diagnostics, laboratory astrophysics and atomic physics of highly charged ions.
Dr. Yoram Louzoun (born 1971, France)
Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University
Research interests:
Mathematical biology and immunology, stochastic processes and graph theory.
Dr. Erez Lapid (born 1971, Israel)
Einstein Institute of Mathematics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests:
Number theory and, in particular, automorphic forms, L-functions and the trace formula.
Dr. Deborah Fass (born 1970, USA)
Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Research interests:
Protein structure, folding, and design; the role of conformational changes and dynamics in protein function, and high-resolution “snapshots” of proteins, using X-ray crystallography.
Dr. Oded Regev (born 1978, Israel)
School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Research interests:
Theoretical computer science, quantum computation and complexity theory.
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