Dr. Taleb Mukari, senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and the Elsa Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Ben-Gurion University, won the prestigious Krill Award for excellence in scientific research for 2011. Dr. Mukari won the award for his contribution to the development of special nanostructures
Dr. Taleb Mukari, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and the Elsa Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Ben-Gurion University, won the prestigious Krill Award for excellence in scientific research for 2011. Dr. Mukari won the award for his contribution to the development of special nanostructures.
Dr. Mukari completed his studies for a bachelor's and master's degree in chemistry from the Hebrew University and continued his doctoral studies under the guidance of Prof. Uri Benin from the same department and graduated with first class honors in 2006. After that, he went to a post-doctoral period as a Fulbright scholar and winner of the Ilan Ramon Award for a year at the University of California-Berkeley . In 2007, he joined the research team of the American National Laboratory in Berkeley as an independent researcher until 2009. Since then, Dr. Mukari is a senior lecturer in the chemistry department at Ben-Gurion University.
Dr. Mukari won the Kurapas Award (2004), the Eshkol Scholarship from the Ministry of Science (2005-2007), the Intel Award (2005), the Kay Award for Innovations (2005), the Israel Chemical Society Award (2006), the Shmoliuk Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (2007) , Fulbright post-doctoral scholarship (2006-2007), Ilan Ramon Award for the most outstanding Fulbright Scholar (2006), Eupac Award for Chemistry (2006), Dean's Award for the Faculty of Natural Sciences for an outstanding young researcher-Ben Gurion University (2010), scholarship A flight to receive outstanding scientists (2011).
The Krill Awards for excellence in scientific research are given in memory of the late Binyamin and Gitla Krill Mansbach Schlanger. The awards are intended for outstanding academic staff members, at the rank of lecturer or senior lecturer who have not yet received tenure, who are employed at one of the universities in Israel.
Six awards of $10,000 each are awarded annually, in the fields of exact sciences, life sciences, medicine, agriculture and engineering. The winners are selected by the Wolf Foundation's scholarship committee from outstanding candidates submitted by the universities in Israel. The selection is made according to criteria of excellence and the research topic and its importance. The awards are funded by the Krill family, and were awarded for the first time in 2005.
