The Technion has been awarded the 2025 Defense Minister’s Shield of Honor recognizing support of reservists. Senior Vice President Professor Oded Rabinovitch in his role as Chair of the Forum
Professor Emeritus Avraham Shtub (Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences) received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th National Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management.
Two faculty members were elected to the Israel Young Academy: Assistant Professor Yaniv Romano (Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science and Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical &
Professor Eugen Rabkin (Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering) received the German Society for Materials Science (DGM) International Tammann Medal for 2025.
Visiting Professor Etan Kimmel (Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning) and Architect Michal Kimmel-Eshkolot of Kimmel Eshkolot Architects will receive the 2025 Arts and Sciences Michael Landau Mifal Hapais Prize in the field of Architecture.
Assistant Professor Or Sharir (incoming, Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences) was selected for the 2025–2026 Zuckerman Faculty Scholars program.
Assistant Professor Aviv Karnieli (incoming, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering) and Assistant Professor Ofer Neufeld (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry) will receive the support of the
Two faculty members were elected as members of the Academia Europaea: Professor Dov Levine (Faculty of Physics) and Professor Emeritus Moussa Youdim (The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine)
Professor Ayellet Tal (Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering) has been elected as Fellow of Eurographics – European Association for Computer Graphics.
Professor Emeritus Alon Gany (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering) has been elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In addition, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award
Two faculty members received the 2025 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Wolf Foundation: Assistant Professor Yonatan Belinkov (Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science) and Assistant
Professor Yoav Arava (Faculty of Biology) was selected as the recipient of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Education Award for 2025.
Professor Shahar Kvatinsky (Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering) was accepted as a member of the Young Academy of Europe.
Professor Dario Dekel (Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering) and Associate Professor Ron Rothblum (Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science) – Cooper Award for Excellence in Research. Associate Professor
Dr. Razi Epsztein (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been selected as one of five joint winners of the ES&T and ES&T Letters, and the ACS Division of Environmental
Professor Mark Gandelman (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry) has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the ICS-Adama Prize for Technological Innovation.
Professor Hossam Haick (Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering) has been selected to receive the 2025 MRS Impact Award from the Materials Research Society.
Dr. Arielle Fischer (Faculty of Biomedical Engineering) has received the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation Knighthood Award for 2025.
Dr. Ayelet Shavit, Associate Research Fellow (Department of Humanities and Arts), and PhD student Yael Eshed Silver have received the 2024 Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Outreach and Engagement Award.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dan Shechtman (Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering) was awarded the honorary title of “doctor honoris causa” by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.
Assistant Professor Enrico Piergiacomi (Department of Humanities and Arts) received the 2023 Pontifical Academies Award “De rerum natura”, for his work on Latin and the sciences.
Professor Efrat Lifshitz (Dean of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry) has been selected to receive the 2024 Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Prize or Outstanding Scientist.
Professor Avi Ostfeld (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and his colleagues received the Seminal Paper Award for their publication, The Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN): A Design Challenge for
Professor Emeritus Mordechay (Moti) Karpel (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering) has been selected to receive the Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Professor Emeritus Daniel Rittel (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) was selected to receive the 2025 W. M. Murray Lecture Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).
Professor Kinneret Keren (Faculty of Physics) has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Associate Professor Beni Cukurel (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering) has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Professor Emeritus Alon Gany (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering) has been selected to receive the Wyld Propulsion Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Professor Ashraf Brik (the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry) has been selected to receive the 2025 Vincent du Vigneaud Award from the American Peptide Society.
Assistant Professor Nili Krausz (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) has been selected to receive a Fellowship for the Recruitment of Outstanding Faculty from the Ultra-Orthodox Community from the Council for Higher
Associate Professor Reut Shalgi (Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine) received the Ferruccio Ritossa Early Career Award from the Cell Stress Society International (CSSI).
The research group led by Associate Professor Aaron Sprecher (Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning) has been selected as the Winner of the Year in Universal Design in the competitive
Professor Emanuel Milman (Faculty of Mathematics) received the 2024 Frontiers of Science Award, presented by the International Congress of Basic Science, for his paper with Professor Fabio Cavalletti, “The globalization
Assistant Professor Gilad Barshad, who will be joining the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine in the upcoming academic year, has been awarded an Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellowship.
Professor Gershon Elber (Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science) received the Tosiyasu L. Kunii Distinguished Researcher Award from Shape Modeling International (SMI).
Assistant Professor Joachim Behar (Faculty of Biomedical Engineering) was selected to receive the Ziegler Prize from the Israeli National Academy of Science in Medicine. The prize, established in memory of
The election of this year’s new members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) includes three faculty members from the Technion: Professor Oded Beja and Professor Benjamin Podbilewicz from the
Professor Alfred (Freddy) Bruckstein (Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science) has been elected as Fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Class of 2024.
Three faculty members won the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Wolf Foundation: Assistant Professor Renana Gershoni Poranne (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry), Assistant Professor Hila Peleg (Henry and Marilyn
Clinical Associate Professor Roni P. Dodiuk-Gad (Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine) was selected as an honorable member of the International Society of Dermatology.
