Ilan Chet#
| Membership Number: | 3747 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Appointed Deputy Secretary General for Higher Education and Research in the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Barcelona, Spain
- 2001 - 2006 President of the Weizmann Institiute
- 1998 - 2001 Chairman, The National Committee for Strategic Infrastructure
- 1995 - 2008 Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA (in summers)
- 1992 - 2001 Vice President for Research and Development of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 1986 - 1989 Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot
- 1984 "DFG Visiting Professor", University of Göttingen, FRG
- 1983 - 1986 Director of the "Otto Warburg Center of Biotechnology in Agriculture", Rehovot, Israel
- 1981 - 1983 Head, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew university
- 1978 Professor of Microbiology, Hebrew University
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological control of plant diseases
- Agricultural biotechnology
- Science education and administration
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Rothschild Prize in Agriculture
- 1994 Max-Planck Award for Distinguished Research
- 1996 Israel Prize
- 1996 Japanese Arima Prize for Applied Microbiology
- 1998 Wolf Prize
- EMET Prize (2004)
- 2001 Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2014 Chevalier de la légion d'honneur, France
- Honorary doctorates from Sweden’s Lund University (1991), from the University of Haifa (2006), and from Naples University (2008)
