!!Zvi Ben-Avraham - Curriculum vitae __Born:__ November 16, 1941, Jerusalem, Israel\\ __ Position:__ Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University \\ \\ __Education:__ \\ *1969 B.Sc. with honors, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem(Geology) *1973 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Geophysics). Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Structural framework of the Sunda Shelf and Vicinity. Name of supervisors: Prof. K.O. Emery, Dr. C.O. Bowin, Prof. N.M. Toksoz \\ __Professional Positions:__ \\ *1973 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution *1973-1975 Senior Research Fellow, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd. *1975-1976 Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science *1976-1981 Senior Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science *1981-1982 Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science *1979-1982 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University *1982-1989 Professor of Geophysics (Research), Department of Geophysics, Stanford University *1989-present Max Sonnenberg Professor of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town. *1982-1986 Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University *1986-present Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University *2001 Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam *2005 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles *2007 Founding Director, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa \\ __Professional Activities:__ \\ *1975-1980 Member of IDOE program of studies of East Asia Tectonics and resources *1978-present Member of the review panel, Commission for the Geological Map of the World *1981-1982 Vice President, Peninsula Geological Society, California *1981-present Member, Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere, International Council of Scientific Unions *1984-1994 Board of Directors, Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics, Israel *1984-1994 Scientific Committee, Gordon Center for Energy Studies, Tel Aviv University *1985-1990 Board of Directors, Interuniversity Institute of Marine Studies, Elat, Israel *1985-1986 President, Israel Geological Society *1985-2001 Associate Editor, Tectonics, American Geophysical Union *1987-present Associate Editor, Annales Tectonicae *1987-1991 Chairman, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University *1992-2006 Associate Editor, Tectonophysics, Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V. *1992-1999 Associate Editor, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences. *1993-present Associate Editor, Russian Geology and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences *1995-present Director, Minerva Dead Sea Research Center, Tel Aviv University. *1996-1998 Research Foundation Committee, Tel Aviv University. *2000-2002 Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University. *2004-2005 Academic Planning Committee, Tel Aviv University *2004-present Chairman, Israel National Committee IUGS *2008-present Scientific Advisor to the President of the State of Israel *2009 Search Committee, Editor of Tectonics, American Geophysical Union \\ __Honors and Awards:__ \\ *1976 Grader Prize, Israel Geological Society *1981 Fellow, Geological Society of America *1984 Citation of excellence, USSR Academy of Sciences *1985 Freund Prize, Israel Geological Society *1985 Invited Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London *1989 Max Sonnenberg Chair of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town *1996 Foreign member, Academia Europaea *1998 Nebenzahl and Grossberg Chair in Geodynamics, Tel Aviv University *1999 Fellow, American Geophysical Union *2000 Corresponding member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences *2000 Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities *2003 Israel Prize *2003 Honorary member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences *2004 L.Meitner-A.v. Humboldt Research Award *2006 Foreign member, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences \\ __Professional Societies:__ \\ *American Geophysical Union *Geological Society of America *Sigma Xi (M.I.T. Chapter) *European Geosciences Union *Israel Geological Society *Israel Geophysical and Geodetic Society \\ __Supervision of PhD and MSc Students and of Post Doctoral Fellows:__ \\ *27 PhD Students *33 MSc Students *5 Post Doctoral Fellows