Prof. Mordechai Sheves

Biography

Born in Tel Aviv, Mordechai Sheves gained a B.Sc. degree in 1969 at Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel) and M.Sc. (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Prof. Sheves carried out postdoctoral work with Prof. Nakanishi of Columbia University, and in 1981 he returned to Israel and the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Organic Chemistry, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 1987, and Full Professor in 1994. In 1992, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana), where he worked in the Beckman Institute and in the Department of Biophysics. From 1994 to 2004, Prof. Sheves headed the Weizmann Institute’s Chemical Research Support and from 2004 to 2006, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, and in December 2006, he was appointed Vice President for Technology Transfer. Prof. Sheves is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Landau Research Prize (1977), the Ernst David Bergmann Prize for Chemistry (1985) and the Israel Science Foundation’s prestigious Center of Excellence Grant (1999). At the Weizmann Institute, Prof. Sheves is the incumbent of the Ephraim Katzir-Rao Makineni Professorial Chair in Chemistry. Prof. Sheves has served as the Chairman of Yeda's Board of Directors since January, 2007.

Research Interest

Biophysics, Chemistry, Business management