Zev Levin

Professor

Tel. +357 22208601
Email: z.levin@cyi.ac.cy
Secondary email: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il

Professor Levin has a degree in Physics from the California State University and a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Washington. He joined EEWRC in January 2009. He participates in and coordinates the EEWRC integrated study on climate change, and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Prof. Levin also holds, among many other positions, the Goldemberg Chair Professor in Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University (Israel) and he is the former President of the International Commission of Clouds and Precipitation, 2004-2012.

Furthermore, he is the former chairman of the Israeli Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, which studies the phenomenon of global change. Professor Levin is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, he received many distinguished awards including the Israel Landau Prize for water research, which he received in March 2009.

Other awards include:

• The Landesbausparkassen Baden-Wurttemberg Prize on Environment and Life by the University of Konstanz, Germany
• NRC Associateship - Senior scientist - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - A Visiting Distinguished Scientist
• ASEE-NASA - Stanford Fellowship

Professor Levin's past positions include: Vice President for Research and Development and Dean of Research of Tel Aviv University, director of the Porter School for Environmental Studies (Tel Aviv University), Visiting Professor at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics (Zurich) and Senior Scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Prof. Levin was the principle Investigator on the MEIDEX (Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment) on board the Columbia Space Shuttle.

The effects of pollution on precipitation, principal Investigator of MEIDEX-Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment - the study of dust transport over the ocean and measurements of sprites (1999 – 2005), cloud and rain physics (experimental and theoretical), cloud chemistry, weather modification, atmospheric aerosol and nucleation, ice nucleation by bacteria, terrestrial and planetary atmospheric electricity and lightning generation.