Education

2002 – 2005 B.A. in Geography and Human Environment Studies (Cum Laude) Tel-Aviv University, Department of Geography and Human Environment

2006– 2010 Direct Ph.D. Excellence Program,Tel -Aviv University, Porter school for Environmental Sciences, Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory

2008 – 2009 “Young Scientists Exchange Program” (Israel-Germany) in DLR (German Aerospace Center) sponsored by Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF project External

Courses and Professional Studies

2002 CivilCad training by Autodesk Israel – 320 hours

2003 Total Stations (TPS) professional training by Leica Geosystem – 115 hours

2004 ArcInfo training by Taldor LTD. – 250 hours

2007 DBA: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to Oracle 10g by John Bryce Collage – 260 hour

2007 ESRI ArcSDE for SQL Server by Systematics – 27 hours

2010 MODIS Works by NASA (Dr. Richard Kleidman and Dr. Robert Levi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) in Technion, Israel – 26 hours of frontal lectures and 24 hours for the final project, total 50 hours

Awards

2003 Deans Excellence Award, Faculty of Humanities

2008 BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany) Excellence Scholarship of “Young Scientists Exchange Program”

2009 Rectors Excellence Scholarship, Tel-Aviv University