Prof. Pinhas Alpert

Atmospheric Dynamics

Climate and Climate Change

Mesoscale Modeling

Numerical Weather Prediction

Aerosols Observations and Modelling Dust and Sea-Salt Forecasting

Cellular monitoring of the environment

B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Computer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970

M.Sc. in Physics-Electro Optics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972

Ph.D. in Meteorology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980

Instructor, Meteorology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1980

Lecturer, Geophysics & Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1982-1986

Post-doctoral Fellow, Meteorology (CIMMS), The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 1983

Visiting Scientist, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA, 1986-1987

Visiting Scientist, Meteorology, Reading Univesrity, Reading, England, 1987

Visiting Scientist, Meteorology, Penn State University, University Park, USA, 1992

NRC Senior Associate, Data Assimilation Office, NASA-GSFC; Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995-1997

Professor, Geophysics & Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1998-Today

Physics Senior Visitor, Balearic University, Spain, 1998

Senior Visitor, Climate & Radiation, NASA-GSFC Aerosol Center, 2000

Fellow, NASA-Goddard Space Laboratory, Goddard flight Center Atmosphere, 2003-2008

Head, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2005-2008

Head, Tel Aviv University, Porter School for Environmental Studies, 2008-2013

Israel “Psalms” Champion for Youth, 1965

Distinction Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1967 

Distinction Prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970

Prize, Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany, 1975

Harvard Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1980-1982

Grant, NATO Advanced Study Institute, 1982

Fellowship, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 1983

NRC Senior Associate, NASA/Goddard, Greenbelt, US, 1995-1997

American Men & Women of Sciences (AMWS Book), 1998

Goddard Fellow, NASA Goddard Flight Center, 2003-2008

Honorary Member, World Jewish Academy of Sciences, 2004-

Member as the Senate Delegate, Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, 2007-2009

Best of What's New Popular Science Award of Flood Warning, 2009

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Medal, WIPO Medal, "for the best invention to predict floods using cellular networks" (with N. David and H. Messer-Yaron), 2009

Certificate of Championship of the Lower Jordan River, granted in Limassol, Cyprus, by the Jordanian, Palestinian & Israeli Directors of FoEME-Friends of the Earth Middle East, 2011

The Mikhael M. Nebenzahl & Amalia Grossberg Chair Professor in Geodynamics, 2011-2019

Head of the Porter School for Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2008-2013

Member of the International Advisory Board of DESERVE (Dead Sea Research Venue of the German Helmholtz Society), 2012-2017

Most Influential Paper Award by the American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC) to: Pinhas Alpert, Olga Shvainshtein and Pavel Kishcha for the paper: "AOD trends over megacities based on space monitoring using MODIS and MISR", AJCC, 1, 117-131, 2012, 2016

Recipient of the EGU Bjerknes Medal Award - Ceremony & Medal Lecture on the EGU General Assembly, April 2018

Our study is one of 10 leading curious environmental research in Israel of year 2017 (student doctorant Lee Sever), 2018

Award of JSIDRE: Our 2014 Springer Book on "Climate Analysis: Regional Atmospheric Processes, in Climate Change Impacts on Basin Agro-Ecosystems", Editors: Selim Kapur and Tsugihiro Watanabe, won the 2020 Award of JSIDRE (Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering), 2020

Recipient of Landau Award on Climate life-time Research, 2023