Noam Adir

Prof. Noam Adir is the Technion Executive Vice President for Research. He also serves as the CEO of the Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. He previously served as the Dean of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry for six years, as the Deputy Executive Vice President for Research and as the Deputy Vice President and General Manager for Safety at Technion. Adir obtained his BSc in Chemistry and PhD in Biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He performed postdoctoral research in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego. He joined the faculty of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at Technion in 1995 and holds the Bertha Hertz-Axel Chair in Chemistry. His research interests include X-ray crystallographic and Cryo-EM determination of biologically relevant macromolecular structures; the structure and function of photosynthetic reaction centers and antennas; the study of energy and electron transfer processes in biological systems; the direct use of live photosynthetic organisms for solar energy conversion to electrical current and storable fuels (with Prof. Gadi Schuster) as well as forming functional connections between isolated photosynthetic complexes and nano-materials or anodic structures. His group is also interested in stress related proteins, enzymes, development of novel anti-microbial compounds and homology-based modeling of medically important proteins. A start-up company electricAlgae was recently established aimed at turning their clean energy technology into a reality.