Yinon Rudich#
| Membership Number: | 5280 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/EPS/Rudich/home |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3149-0201 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Dean, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 2016 - 2019 Head, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 2014 Guest professor, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2008 - present Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 2003 Visiting Professor, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), Harvard University, Cambridge MA.
- 2002 - 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 1997 - 2002 Senior Researcher, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- 1994 - 1996 National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate in the Atmospheric Chemical Kinetics group, Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Fields of Scholarship
- Optical properties of aerosols
- Atmospheric chemistry and microphysics of aerosols
- Health and climatic effects of pollution and bio-aerosols
- Heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry
- Ice nucleation
- Global and regional aspects of air pollution
- Aerosol-climate interactions and their global climatic effects
- Satellite observations of atmospheric and climatic processes
- Bioaerosols
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2017 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
- 2017 Distinguished Scholar, Peking University, Beijing 2017
- 2016 Henri Gutwirth Prize, Technion, Israel, 2016
- 2015 - 2018 Mercator Fellow, German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2014 Guest Professorship, ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
- 2008 Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation, Weizmann Institute
- 2007 York University (UK) distinguished visitor award
- 2008 Benjamin Meaker, Visiting Professorship, Bristol University UK
- Environmental Research Letters (ERL) – best article published in 2006-2007.
- 1997 Sir Charles Clore Prize, Weizmann Institute
- 1994 - 1997 National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1994 Kennedy Award – Feinberg Graduate School
