Our Team

Nimrod Schwartz

Principal Investigator, PhD
Department of Soil and Water Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Email: nimrod.schwartz@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: +972.8.948.9288

Sonya Alzitser

PhD Student
Email: Sonya.Altziser@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Impacts of Soil Colloids and Soil Structure on the Fate of Organic Pollutants Applying Geoelectrical Methods
(with Prof. Yael Mishael)

Emmanual Akaerue

PhD Student
Email: Emmanual.Akaerue@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Non-invasive Methods for Root Phenotyping using Geophysical Imaging and Mathematical Models

Gal Tzvik

PhD Student
Email: Gal.Tzvik@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Unraveling the Dynamics of Root Exudates in Soil Erodability and Transport Processes
(with Prof. Yael Mishael)

Canar Saker

PhD Student
Email: Canar.Saker@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Impact of Soil`s Fine-scale Heterogeneous Structure on the Effective Hydro-electrical Properties of Unsaturated Soils
(with Dr. Ziv Moreno)

Shahar Shahror

MSc Student
Email: Shahar.Shahror@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: The Impact of Fluid Flow on Electrical Double Layer Properties

Osnat Wijler

MSc Student
Email: Osnat.Wijler@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Monitoring Permeable reactive barrier using spectral induced polarization

Aviad Montagu

MSc Student
Email: Aviad.Montagu@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Monitoring Water Uptake of Sesame Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography.

Or Kashi

MSc Student
Email: or.kashi@mail.huji.ac.il
Research: Genetic-physiologic and Underground Sensing to Improve Root System Architecture in Wheat in a Changing Climate
(with Prof. Zvi Peleg)

Former Team members

Dr. Amit Paporisch

Postdoc Graduate
Current Position: Principale Investigator at ARO Israel
Research: Impact of mucilage on solute transport in soil.

Dr. Meirav Cohen

Postdoc Graduate
Current Position: Principale Investigator at Dead Sea & Arava Science Center
Research: Parametric Sensitivity Analysis in Modeling Contaminant Transport through Unsaturated Soil Media
(with Dr. Ravid Rosenzwieg)

Dr. Kuzma Tsukanov

PhD Graduate
Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at Agriculture Research Organization
Research: Electrical properties of roots.

Ruth Glebe

MSc Graduate Research: Impact of Pore water velocity on SIP signature of porous media
(with Dr. Matthias Bucker)

Gal Zakai

MSc Graduate
Research: Soil Organic matter-contamination interactions and their impact of the soil electrical properties.

Harel Bavli

MSc Graduate
Current Position: R&D at Aviv Management & Consulting
Research: Impact of root exudate on solute transport in porous media.

Or Litig

MSc Graduate
Current Position: Product manager at PhyTech
Research: Monitoring the response of plants with different root systems to drought stress

Foeday Zinnah

MSc Graduate
Current Position: PhD Student at Utah State University