Ehud Keinan

Biography

Professor of Chemistry at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science and postdoc at the University of Wisconsin. Research areas include biocatalysis with antibodies and with synthetic enzymes, organic synthesis, molecular-computing, supra-molecular chemistry, improvised explosives and drug discovery. Past Dean of the Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, was an Adjunct Professor at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California (1991-2014), Founder and first Head of the Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology and founded two startup companies.  Public service: Editor-in-Chief of the Israel Journal of Chemistry, President of the Israel Chemical Society (since 2008) Member of the IUPAC Bureau, the Executive Board of EuCheMS, Member of the Council of the Wolf Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Council of High School Chemistry Education.. Keinan has influenced the public opinion in the State of Israel via many opinion articles published in the Israeli press on science education, higher education, Israel's natural gas issues, the ammonia activity in the Haifa Bay and the future of humanity.

Research Interest

Chemistry