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Professor Yitzhak Apeloig has served as president of the Technion for the past eight years. During his tenure the university has seen major projects initiated on campus in fields such as nanotechnology and life sciences. Among his many other accomplishments, he spearheaded the recruitment of outstanding faculty members who are responsible for the many new breakthroughs and discoveries at the Technion.
One of the most popular and respected academic figures on campus, Prof. Apeloig served as dean of the Faculty of Chemistry from 1995 to 1999, has held a prestigious academic chair since 1993, and was named Teacher of the Year on three separate occasions by the Technion Student Association.
A co-founder and co-director of the internationally renowned Lise Meitner Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, Prof. Apeloig has been a research fellow and visiting professor at numerous universities on four continents, including Princeton, Cornell and the University of Utah, the Technical University in Berlin, Kyushu and Tohoku Universities in Japan and the National Australian University in Canberra. He is a world leader in organosilicon chemistry, computational chemistry and mechanistic organic chemistry. He is the author of more than 170 papers in leading international scientific journals, editor of several books, and is frequently invited to present lectures and lead seminars at major international conferences, universities, research institutes and for industries worldwide.
For his innovative scientific work, Prof. Apeloig has received many awards and prizes - in Israel, Germany and Japan, including an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin. In 2007 he was awarded the Wacker Prize, one of two prestigious prizes in the world for silicon chemistry.
Prof. Apeloig served a one-year term as the leader of the Association of University Heads in Israel in 2004 and was asked again to serve in this capacity since April 2009. Steep cuts in government funding, necessitated by a struggling economy and the cost of the war on terrorism, coupled with proposed changes in university governance, made this a particularly important position in the ongoing struggle to support higher education in Israel.
Born in Bukhara, Russia, he arrived in Israel with his family in 1947. His bachelor's of science degree in chemistry and physics, and his master's of science degree and doctorate in chemistry were earned (summa cum laude) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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