!!Zvi Ben-Avraham - Curriculum vitae

__Born:__ November 16, 1941, Jerusalem, Israel\\
__ Position:__ Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
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__Education:__
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*1969 B.Sc. with honors, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem(Geology)
*1973 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Geophysics). Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Structural framework of the Sunda Shelf and Vicinity. Name of supervisors: Prof. K.O. Emery, Dr. C.O. Bowin, Prof. N.M. Toksoz
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__Professional Positions:__
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*1973 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
*1973-1975 Senior Research Fellow, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd.
*1975-1976 Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
*1976-1981 Senior Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
*1981-1982 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
*1979-1982 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
*1982-1989 Professor of Geophysics (Research), Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
*1989-present Max Sonnenberg Professor of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town.
*1982-1986 Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
*1986-present  Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
*2001	Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
*2005	Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
*2007	Founding Director, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa
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__Professional Activities:__
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*1975-1980 Member of IDOE program of studies of East Asia Tectonics and resources
*1978-present Member of the review panel, Commission for the Geological Map of the World
*1981-1982 Vice President, Peninsula Geological Society, California
*1981-present Member, Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere, International Council of Scientific Unions
*1984-1994 Board of Directors, Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics, Israel
*1984-1994 Scientific Committee, Gordon Center for Energy Studies, Tel Aviv University
*1985-1990 Board of Directors, Interuniversity Institute of Marine Studies, Elat, Israel
*1985-1986 President, Israel Geological Society
*1985-2001 Associate Editor, Tectonics, American Geophysical Union
*1987-present	Associate Editor, Annales Tectonicae
*1987-1991 Chairman, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
*1992-2006  Associate Editor, Tectonophysics, Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V.
*1992-1999 Associate Editor, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences.
*1993-present Associate Editor, Russian Geology and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences
*1995-present	Director, Minerva Dead Sea Research Center, Tel Aviv University.
*1996-1998	Research Foundation Committee, Tel Aviv University.
*2000-2002	Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University.
*2004-2005	Academic Planning Committee, Tel Aviv University
*2004-present	Chairman, Israel National Committee IUGS
*2008-present	Scientific Advisor to the President of the State of Israel
*2009	Search Committee, Editor of Tectonics, American Geophysical Union
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__Honors and Awards:__
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*1976 Grader Prize, Israel Geological Society
*1981 Fellow, Geological Society of America
*1984 Citation of excellence, USSR Academy of Sciences
*1985 Freund Prize, Israel Geological Society
*1985 Invited Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London
*1989 Max Sonnenberg Chair of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town
*1996 Foreign member, Academia Europaea
*1998 Nebenzahl and Grossberg Chair in Geodynamics, Tel Aviv University
*1999 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
*2000 Corresponding member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
*2000 Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
*2003 Israel Prize
*2003 Honorary member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences
*2004 L.Meitner-A.v. Humboldt Research Award
*2006 Foreign member, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences         
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__Professional Societies:__
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*American Geophysical Union
*Geological Society of America
*Sigma Xi (M.I.T. Chapter)
*European Geosciences Union
*Israel Geological Society
*Israel Geophysical and Geodetic Society
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__Supervision of PhD and MSc Students and of Post Doctoral Fellows:__
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*27 PhD Students
*33 MSc Students
*5 Post Doctoral Fellows