Arie Zaban (; born in 1961) is an Israeli professor of chemistry. He is President of

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

Biography

Arie Zaban was born in Israel. He served in the

Israel Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; , commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Indep ...

as a Phantom pilot. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry from

. He spent two years of postdoctoral work at the United States

National Renewable Energy Laboratory The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the US specializes in the research and development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy systems integration, and sustainable transportation. NREL is a federally funded research and ...

in Colorado.

Academic career

He returned to Bar-Ilan, becoming a professor of chemistry. He was a founding director of the Bar-Ilan’s Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for seven years, and was elected to be Bar-Ilan's Vice President of Research in 2014. In 2017 Zaban was elected to be Bar-Ilan's eighth president, succeeding

Daniel Hershkowitz Daniel Hershkowitz (; born 2 January 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli politician, mathematician, and Orthodox rabbi. Since 2018, he has headed the . He is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Technion, and is also rabbi of the Ahuza ne ...

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Biography

Academic career

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