Upon completing my PhD at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2006) I received the Sir Charles Clore Postdoctoral Fellowship at Weizmann Institute of Science and joined Prof. Yakir’s (who was awarded the Israel Prize in Geology, Earth Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences, 2019) research group. I then received the BARD Vaadia Postdoctoral scholarship and pursued my second postdoctoral research at the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory at the Agricultural Research Services, US Department of Agriculture, in Maryland, USA.  It is where I became an integral part of several large-scale US research projects including the Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC; 2007), the Bushland Evapotranspiration and Agricultural Remote sensing EXperiment 2008 (BEAREX08; 2008), and the Grape Remote sensing Atmospheric Profiling & Evapotranspiration eXperiment (GRAPEX; 2013-present).

In 2013 I joined the faculty of the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University, and am an Associate Professor since 2017.  I serve as the Elias and Frances Margolin Career Development Chair in Environmental Desert Studies and Research and as Vice President of the International Fog and Dew Association.  I am a member of the directorate of Neve Midbar, the water corporation of the Bedouin villages, and of the directorate of Ramat Negev water corporation.

My research themes revolve around the exchange of heat, water and momentum across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in the Earth’s Critical Zone.  These complex processes regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources, including food production and water quality.  Accordingly, my research focuses on both natural and agricultural environments.  My toolbox comprises field experiments utilizing state-of-the-art micro-meteorological instrumentation along with various modeling approaches. 

As a great believer in the strength of team efforts and their potential to push science frontiers forward and achieve synergetic outcomes, I developed and continue developing multi-disciplinary research with ecologists, plant physiologists, biochemists, hydrologists, remote-sensing specialists and others.  My research of the physical environment in both natural and agricultural environments is mostly of theoretical nature, but in both it has applicative aspects.  Environmental research is conducted to better understand the ecosystem functioning of drylands and its contribution to greenhouse gas emission in a changing world, and agricultural research is conducted towards improving yield efficiency and quality.