Water and The Environment: Current Challenges and Solutions (edX)
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Oct 31st 2022
Edo Bar-Zeev
Prof. Edo Bar-Zeev (Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Prof. Bar-Zeev is an associate professor at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He has a Ph.D. in microbiology from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and a Postdoc from the department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Yale University, USA.
Prof. Bar-Zeev is an applied and environmental microbiologist focused on a wide spectrum of water issues during an era of global climate change and severe water scarcity. Specifically, his interdisciplinary interests include: (i) Hydrogel dynamics in marine and freshwater environments, (ii) The role of planktonic aggregates in biochemical cycles, (iii) The nexus of desalination and the aquatic environment, and (iv) Biofouling, from biofilm formation on various artificial surfaces to innovative cleaning approaches. Prof. Bar-Zeev is the Principal Investigator of the applied and environmental laboratory at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.