Adi Torfstein

Education

Ph.D., Geology, 2008, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

B.Sc., Geology, 2002, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2018 - present: Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel

2019-2020: Visiting professor, University of California Santa Cruz

2016 - 2018: Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel

2013 - 2016: Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel

2013 - present: Adjunct Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

2011 - 2013: Lamont Assistant Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

2008 - 2011: Postdoctoral research scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Rafi Freund award for popular science publication, Spring 2016

Hebrew University Bentor award for excellence in research, Autumn 2010

Sussman postdoctoral award of the Sussman Center for Environmental Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Spring 2008

Postdoctoral scholar fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Spring 2008 (I declined)

Postdoctoral associate fellowship at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Spring 2008 (I declined)

Israel Geological Society Peretz-Grader award for excellence in research, 2007

Head of HUJI oceanography program

GEOTRACES, member of Scientific Steering Committee

Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI), board of directors

Dead Sea & Arava Science Center, general assmebly member

Institute of Earth Sciences, HUJI, Teaching committee member

Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI), Teaching committee member

Associate editor: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, Frontiers in Earth Sciences