BGU | PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2025

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PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2025

Dr. Nir Shlezinger of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering was awarded the 2024 Krill Prize from the Wolf Foundation. He also won an ERC Starting grant. Prof. Itzik Mizrahi from the Department of Life Sciences and the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change was awarded the prestigious 2024 Bruno Award by the Yad Hanadiv Foundation, which recognizes leading Israeli researchers with the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. Dr. Aviad Moreno of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism won a National Jewish Book Award in the Sephardic Culture category for his book Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas . Prof. Carmi Z. Margalit , founding Director of the Medical School for International Health, was among the recipients of a Bonei Zion Prize, awarded to olim from English-speaking countries whose achievements serve as a model for others and who have made a transformative impact on Israeli society.

Prof. Assaf Zaritsky of the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering was honored with a 2024 Allen Distinguished Investigator Award in Organelle Communication. The award, granted by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, will fund a $1.5 million pioneering collaborative interdisciplinary project. Prof. Michael Meijler of the Department of Chemistry was awarded a $1.2 million Human Frontier Science Program grant for 2024.

Dr. Aviad Moreno.

Photo: Yehonatan Moreno

Dr. Nir Shlezinger (r) with Rector Prof. Chaim Hames at the Krill Prize ceremony, June 2024. Photo: Yuval Yosef Prof. Carmi Margalit and Sylvan Adams (center) at the Bonei Zion award ceremony, Dec. 2024. Photo: Shachar Azran