Continental Margins.
Structure and evolution of passive continental margins.
Levant continental margin.
Tectonic processes at active continental margins.
Pacific and Indian Oceans active margins.
Calabrian, Hellenic and Cyprean Arcs, eastern Mediterranean.
Sheared continental margins.
Agulhas margin.
Continental Transforms.
Dead Sea fault.
San Andreas fault.
Philippine fault.
Collisional Processes at plate margins.
B.Sc. with honors in Geology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1969.
Ph.D.in Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1973.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1973
Senior Research Fellow, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd., 1973-1975
Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1975-1976
Senior Researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1976-1981
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1981-1982
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 1979-1982
Professor of Geophysics (Research), Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 1982-1989
Max Sonnenberg Professor of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town, 1989-Today
Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1982-1986
Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1986-present
Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2001
Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
Founding Director, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, 2007-Today
Scientific Advisor to the President of the State of Israel, 2008-Today
Head, Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel, 2012-Today
Grader Prize, Israel Geological Society, 1976
Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1981
Citation of excellence, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1984
Freund Prize, Israel Geological Society, 1985
Invited Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London, 1985
Max Sonnenberg Chair of Marine Geoscience, University of Cape Town, 1989
Member, Academia Europaea, 1996
Nebenzahl and Grossberg Chair in Geodynamics, Tel Aviv University, 1998
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1999
Corresponding member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 2000
Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2000
Israel Prize, 2003
Honorary member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences, 2003
L.Meitner-A.v. Humboldt Research Award, 2004
Foreign member, Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
Lifetime Achievement Award, Israeli Association for Aquatic Sciences, 2012
Honorary member, Israel Geological Society, 2014
