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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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