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<p>Michael (Miki) Elad holds the Sanford Kaplan Academic Chair at the Faculty of Computer Science in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Throughout his career he has combined R&D work at industrial firms (from HP Labs to Google to Verily) with academic research and teaching. Attaining his DSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion (1997), he has also done teaching and research at Stanford University (2001-2003). He has been an IEEE Fellow (2012) and a SIAM Fellow (2018), served as Editor-in-Chief for the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (2016-2021), and has headed the Rothschild Technion Program for Excellence (2015-2018). &nbsp;</p>

<p>Uri Banin holds the Larisch Memorial Chair in the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). He obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry with highest honors from HU (1994). Following his postdoctoral tenure as a Fullbright and Rothschild fellow at UC Berkeley (1994-1997), he returned to HU in 1997. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from 2001 to 2010, and has been a Full Professor at HU since 2004. He served on the scientific advisory board of Nanosys Inc. (2002-2007), was the founder (2009) of Qlight Nanotech, and served as an Associate Editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters (2013-2021). He boasts a prolific publication record in the field of quantum dots, widely recognized and cited, and holds over 30 patents. His accolades include the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist (2001), the Michael Bruno memorial award (2007), the Landau prize in Nanotechnology (2015), the Israel Chemical Society Prize of Excellence (2018) and a Miller fellowship at UC Berkeley (2019). He received the ERC advanced investigator grant twice. </p>

<p>Ron Milo is the Charles and Louise Gartner Professional Chair in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his PhD in biological physics from the Weizmann Institute in 2005 and later became the first Systems Biology Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. At the Weizmann Institute, Milo heads the newly established Institute for Environmental Sustainability, and also serves as Dean of Education (since 2019). He is the Chairperson of the Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental sciences (since 2021), and previously headed The Israel Young Academy (2015-2017). &nbsp;</p>

<p>Moni Naor is the Judith Kleeman Professional Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Math at the Weizmann Institute of Science. After receiving his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley (1989), he spent some years as a scientist with IBM, and taught at both Stanford University and Princeton University. Naor's work is cited with extreme frequency: According to Google Scholar, he has over 56,000 citations, with an H-Index of 96. 14 of his published papers were cited more than 1,000 times. Ten of his PhD students have become professors at Israeli universities, with two currently positioned at US universities. </p>

<p>Tamar Ziegler holds the Henry and Manya Noskwith Chair of Mathematics in the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Having earned her PhD in Mathematics from the Hebrew University (2003), she has taught over the years at such establishments as the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, Stanford University, and the Technion, before returning to her alma mater in Jerusalem. she has been honored with numerous awards and grants, chief among them the Erdős Prize of the Israel Mathematical Union in 2011, the Bruno memorial award in 2015, an ERC grant in 2016, and a membership at the Academia Europaea in 2021. She serves on the editorial board of several journals, among them Essential Number Theory and the Israel Journal of Mathematics. &nbsp;</p>