Alumni
Postdocs
Dr. Christine Hall
Dr. Andrea Price
PetroLab member: 2017-2021.
Project: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene enhanced humidity in the Levantine corridor: insights from marine and lacustrine records (link).
Present position: Senior lab manager, University of Missouri, USA.
Dr. William Daniels
PetroLab member: 2019-2020.
Project: The Lake Hill, St. Paul Island project (link).
Present position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA (link).
Dr. Aaron Melijson
PetroLab member: 2017-2019.
Project: Cyclo-stratigraphy and biomarkers of Messinian evaporites in the deep Eastern Mediterranean (link).
Present position: Independent Geology Consultant, Israel.
Dr. Yin Lu
PetroLab member: 2015-2017.
Project: Dead Sea paleoseismicity (ICDP-Dead Sea core) (link).
Present position: Associated professor at Tongji University, China (link).
Graduated visiting PhD students
Dr. Nehemiah Dominick
Graduated from University of Western Cape (South Africa) in 2023.
Thesis: 3103301 Sandstone reservoirs from the central Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa (link).
Present position: Petroleum Geologist, Total, France.
Dr. Moses Magoba
Graduated from University of Western Cape (South Africa) in 2020.
Thesis: Fluid flow systems in the central Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa (link).
Present position: Assistant Professor, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa.
PhD students
Dr. Aihemaiti Maitituerdi
Graduated from PetroLab in 2023.
Thesis: Depositional history of the Chala crater basin (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa): insights from a high-resolution ~250 kyr paleoenvironmental archive (link).
Present position: Postdoc at the University of Haifa, Israel (link).
Dr. Lawal Muhedeen Ajibola
Graduated from PetroLab in 2023.
Thesis: Seafloor gas seepage features, potential gas accumulations and migration pathways: Implications for resource exploration and geohazards, SE Levant Basin (link).
Present position: Postdoc at Ohio State University, USA (link).
visiting PhD students
Paschal Amaechi
University of Western Cape (South Africa).
Thesis: Understanding the controlling mechanisms behind Mass Transport Deposits in the Orange Basin, South Africa (link).
Present position: PhD student, University of Western Cape, South Africa.
MSc students
Abdel-Aziz Yassine
Graduated in 2022.
Thesis: Paleo-environmental reconstruction of the northern Levantine corridor for the time period since the LGM: insights from Lake Hula (link).
Present position: PhD student at the Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Winnie Bett
Graduated in 2022.
Thesis: Evaluation of Mesozoic source rocks and their potential to support petroleum systems offshore Israel (link).
Present position: PhD student at the University of Haifa, Israel.
John Greenlee
Graduated in 2022.
Thesis: Reconstructing Pliocene environmental conditions in the Levantine Corridor (Near East) with a multi-proxy study on a lacustrine record (link).
Present position: PhD student at the University of Syracuse, USA.
Hilit Kranenburg
Graduated in 2022.
Thesis: Late Quaternary evolution of the Yesha Valley (Naftali Mountains): a paleo-environmental study (link).
Present position: Independent tourist guide.
Olajide Oladipo
Graduated from PetroLab in 2021.
Thesis: Insights into recent environmental variability in Sumatra (Indonesia) from lacustrine sub-bottom profiles and sediment cores (link).
Present position: PhD student at the University of Georgia, USA.
Avinesh Kumar
Graduated from PetroLab in 2021.
Thesis: Postglacial environmental reconstruction of northwestern USA from lacustrine record: Bells Lake, northern Idaho (link).
Present position: PhD student at the IUI/Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Ido Tkacz
Graduated from PetroLab in 2019.
Thesis: Petrophysical properties of unconsolidated sand units in the southern Shfela region.
Present position: Rafael Ltd. / PhD student at PetroLab.
Omer Bar-Ziv
Graduated from PetroLab in 2019.
Thesis: The suitability of the Zohar structure (Arad area) for geological CO2 storage (link).
Present position: Independent consulting, Israel.
Ravit Bennaim
Graduated from PetroLab in 2019.
Thesis: Petrophysical properties of the sedimentary overburden overlying a shallow gas reservoir: insights from Haifa Bay (link).
Present position: Environmental consulting company, Israel.
Lior Ben-David
Graduated from PetroLab in 2017.
Thesis: Exhumation rates of the Fagnano glacier, Tierra del Fuego (link).
Present position: AquaMelah, Inc. Israel.
Mor Arnon
Graduated from PetroLab in 2017.
Thesis: Geomorphological insights into the evolution of the Israeli continental shelf (link).
Present position: Geologist at Blank Lehrer - Geotechnical Engineering, Israel.
Lee Stern
Graduated from PetroLab in 2016.
Thesis: Limnological reconstruction of Lake Chad during the Holocene based on shallow subsurface imaging and sediment coring (link).
Present position: Geologist at GeoStern - Geology and Rock Engineering, Israel.
Dagan Schalev
Graduated from PetroLab in 2015.
Thesis: Geological mechanisms shaping fluid flow systems on the continental shelf off-central Israel (link).
Present position: OSC Operator and OSRP Coordinator, Noble Energy Mediterranean Ltd. Israel.
Elitsa Hadzhiivanova
Graduated from PetroLab in 2014.
Thesis: Sedimentological insights into depositional events in the Dead Sea (link).
Present position: PPC Account Manager at WMG, Ingenuity Digital | Leeds, UK.
Yosi Ben Simon
Graduated from PetroLab in 2014.
Thesis: Anatomy of a mass wasting event in the Dead Sea (link).
Present position: Independent consultant, Israel.