Environmental economics, health economics, and economic demography

Biogeochemical Processes in the Environment, Nutrient and Contaminant Dynamics, Elemental Cycling

Adaptive decision-making, risk-taking and risk perception.

Neurobiology of Insect Olfaction

Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions

Bio-statistics, Para-clinical statistics, Design of experiments, Computer experiments.

Agricultural production under uncertainty (applications to insurance), Technological change in agriculture, Non-parametric methods in economics.

Pensions, Insurance, Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Decision making

Pre-Purchase Risk-Reduction Marketing Mechanisms, Branding and promotion of agricultural products.

Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere, Biological control of plant pathogens, Mechanisms of bacterial stress responses

Digital Agriculture and Remote Sensing

Soil Geochemistry, rock weathering, soil formation

Automorphic representations; Mathematics

 Environmental Chemistry, Pollutants of Emerging Concern, Soil Chemistry

Initiation of fertilization in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

Agro-meteorology, atmosphric chemistry, air-pollution, modelling, field measurements.

Predatory bacteria, Bacteria-tephritid fruit flies symbioses, Molecular profiling of soil microbial populations

Molecular mechanisms of fungal growth and development, cell wall biosynthesis, regulation of hyphal elongation and branching.

Glucosinolate accumulation, Biological control of Botrytis cinerea

Plant microbiome gene function and inter-bacterial warfare

Ecological modeling and theory, environmental management

Environmental modeling, ecohydrology, soil degradation, desertification

Ecological and evolutionary genetics, insect-plant and insect-environment interactions

environmental chemistry, interactions at the surface of soil particles,  development of new organic-mineral materials

Conservation, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and land-use change, insect pollinators and pollination.

Evolution and synthetic biology of bacterial biofilms

Uncover the dynamic interactions between physical, chemical, and biological components affecting the carbon cycle

Development economics, Agricultural productivity, Misallocation, Credit, risk, and factor markets

Environmental Economics and Management.

Engineering Insect Biology.

Microbial community ecology and evolution

Drug resistance in fungi, Genome instability and chromosome biology in fungal plant pathogens

Insect Ecology.

The economics of family farms; Public policy in agriculture, labor markets, education and aging.

Economic analysis of agricultural land use.

Using systems biology to study ecology and evolution of microbes.

Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, International Economics

Soil-root interactions and water and nutrient uptake, Spectral induced polarization for non-invasive detection of rhizosphere processes

Technological change, macroeconomics, economic growth and development economics.

Honey bee biology, decision-making in bees, pollination

Diseases and disease resistance in natural populations of crop progenitors.

Formation of water repellent soils by irrigation, Effect of contact angle on water flow in soils, Plant-water relationships, Irrigation control

פרס רוטשילד 1998
פרס קיי 2001

Physical chemistry of humic substances, minerals and their interactions, Effects of organic matter on soil fertility and structure.

Behavioral ecology of insects, Insect microbe interactions, Integrated pest management

Water purification from chemicals and microorganisms by granulated micelle-clay complexes: experimental and modeling. Filtration and degradation.

Water Treatment Technology.

Economics of tourism, Rural tourism, Economic value of open space & agricultural landscape.

Natural resource and environmental economics, Dynamic models in natural resource management

פרס ישראל תשע״ד
פרס רוטשילד 1994

Biology, ecology and control of soil-borne plant pathogens, Soil solarization.

Soil chemistry and soil fertility, related to plant nutrition and environmental aspects.