Moshe Herzberg

Prof. Moshe Herzberg (Head of the Department of Desalination & Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Prof. Herzberg received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa. Prof. Herzberg joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, in 2007, after postdoctoral training in the University of Connecticut’s Chemical Engineering Department and in Yale University’s Environmental Engineering program as a BARD postdoc fellow.

Prof. Herzberg’s research interests focus on microbial biofilms and include (i) conditions promoting biofilm formation on membranes in water and wastewater treatment facilities; (ii) mode of action of agents that interfere with biofilm formation; (iii) mechanisms by which biofilms affect membrane performance; (iv) conditions promoting initial bacterial attachment; and (v) The inhibition of biofilm growth mechanisms on "anti‐biofouling" modified‐surface membranes.

Prof. Herzberg is an author of more than 80 scientific publications and more than 100 presentations and seminars presented all over the world. He serves as a board member of the Israel Desalination Membrane Society. Prof. Herzberg is performing an enhanced synergistic collaboration with different water scientists and industries around the globe. In 2010 he received the France‐Israel Foundation award for academic excellence in water research.