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Adams Fellowships

Adams Fellowships
Mr. Marcel Adams and students during the 2014 Adams Seminar
The Adams Fellowships Program was established jointly by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the late Mr. Marcel Adams of Canada. Since its inception in spring 2005, the program has been administered by the Academy and underwritten by Marcel Adams and his family.

 
To the Steering and Approval Committee of the Adams Fellowship Program
 
The prestigious Adams Fellowships are designated for outstanding Israeli doctoral students in the exact sciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer science, information science and engineering. Thus far, they have been awarded to 171 promising young researchers in twenty cycles. Prof. Moshe Oren, Academy Member and Professor of Molecular Biology at the Weizmann Institute, is the current chairperson of the program’s Steering and Approval Committee. Adams Fellowships are granted each year to about eight doctoral students in the second year of their doctoral studies, for periods of up to four consecutive academic years. Candidates are submitted by the academic institutions from among their students. Fellowship recipients are exempted by their institutions from tuition.
 
Today each fellowship is in the amount of NIS 100,000 per year. In addition, the Adams Fellowship Program allots each fellow up to $US 3,000 per year of the fellowship for active participation in international scientific conferences and workshops, research collaboration or travel to interview for postdoctoral positions abroad, when their travel will contribute meaningfully to furthering their professional careers.
 
The Academy’s Adams Fellowships Committee convened on Thursday, June 6th and out of 24 candidates chose the eight most promising young doctoral students as its 20th class of Adams Fellows, to begin their fellowships in the 2024-2025 academic year for the duration of 3-4 years.
 
The new fellows are:
  • Mr. Michael Birk, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Nanotechnology
  • Ms. Roni Gattegno, Tel Aviv University, Brain Sciences
  • Mr. Alon Gutfreund, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Physics
  • Mr. Vladimir Mindel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Molecular Genetics
  • Ms. Doron Pinko, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Earth Sciences and the Environment
  • Mr. Jonathan Somer, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Mr. Elad Tzalik, Weizmann Institute of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Mr. Elad Zehavi, Bar-Ilan University, Electro-Optical Engineering
The following doctoral students were awarded Adams Fellowships for 2023-2024:
  • Ms. Shira Gaviely, Tel Aviv University, Materials Engineering
  • Mr. Gal Keshet, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Genetics, Life Sciences
  • Mr. Majd Machour, The Technion, Bio-Medical Engineering
  • Mr. Omri Matania, Ben-Gurion University, Mechanical Engineering
  • Ms. Avishag Mytlis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cancer Research, Medicine
  • Mr. Ron Ruimy, The Technion, Electrical Engineering
  • Mr. Omri Shelef, Tel Aviv University, Chemistry
  • Mr. Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, The Technion, Physics
The following doctoral students were awarded Adams Fellowships for 2022-2023:
  • Mr. Nitzan Aframian, Tel Aviv University, Life Sciences
  • Mr. Amir Burshtein, Tel Aviv University, Physics
  • Ms. Shir Cohen, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Computer Science
  • Mr. Matan Eilat, Weizmann Institute of Science, Mathematics
  • Mr. Omer Granek, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Physics
  • Ms. Eliana Steinberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Pharmacy
The program’s bilingual (English/Hebrew) website contains information on the fellows of previous cycles and the personal pages of all current fellows and alumni. It also displays general information, Calls for Applications and detailed reports on the program's activities, including videos of the lectures at program-sponsored seminars and photographs taken at seminars, conferences, and field trips.
 
To the Adams Fellowships website: http://adams.academy.ac.il/
 
To create a young science community, Adams Fellows and alumni are provided with the opportunity to create friendships among themselves, at meetings, lectures by world-renowned scientists, and annual conferences and seminars, all of which take place at the Israel Academy. They also participate in field trips and in Science Communication Workshops that prepare them to present their research at international conferences.
 
The Adams Seminar for 2023 and 2024 took place on September 29, 2024, with the participation of Sylvan Adams and Linda Adams-Troy. Israel Academy Previous President Prof. Nili Cohen greeted the audience, and Adams Committee Chair Prof. Moshe Oren delivered the opening address. The guest speaker was Prof. Amnon Shashua, CEO of Mobileye and Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University, who spoke about “The Excitement and Danger in Modern AI”. Fellowships were granted to sixteen new winners of both the classes. At the awarding ceremony, Sylvan Adams and Linda Adams-Troy greeted the grantees on behalf of the Adams Family.
 
Following the awarding of the Adams Fellowships, Prof. Ruth Arnon awarded the Ruth Arnon Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Noam Harel, Adams Alumna who completed her PhD in life sciences at Tel Aviv University under the guidance of Prof. Adi Stern. Noam is going to conduct her postdoctoral training in bioinformatics in Erick Matsen’s Group of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.
 
The Adams Conference for 2024 took place on March 18, 2024. Academy President Prof. David Harel greeted the fellows and Prof. Gil Troy, history professor at McGill University in Canada spoke on “Colleagues or Targets? Maintaining a Proud Israeli Identity on the Post-October 7th Campus”. Prof. Asya Rolls, alumna of the Israel Young Academy and professor of life sciences at Tel Aviv University, spoke on “A Physiological Take on the Mind-Body Problem”. Each of the new fellows gave a presentation on his/her research. The conference was moderated by Prof. Moshe Oren, Chair of the Academy’s Adams Fellowships Committee.
 
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