The Minister of Science and Technology decided to appoint Prof. Mina Teicher as the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology
The Minister of Science and Technology, Matan Vilnai, decided to appoint Prof. Mina Teicher as the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Vilnai emphasized that he is proud that a woman who is a renowned scientist was chosen for the position. The chief scientist, together with the director general of the ministry, David Leffler, will lead the central goals of the ministry, including - designing Israel's national science policy, promoting international scientific relations, reducing gaps in society through the expansion of scientific knowledge and, of course, promoting women in science.
It should be noted that in the last two and a half years no chief scientist has been appointed at the Ministry of Science, a fact that severely damaged the centrality of the Ministry of Science as a leader of national science policy.
Prof. Mina Teicher, the outgoing Vice President for Research at Bar Ilan University, serves as the Chair of the Mathematical Education Committee of the European Union, the Chair of the National Council for the Advancement of Women in Science and Technology, and the Director of the Amy Nutter Mathematics Research Institute.
Prof. Mina Teicher, professor of mathematics specializing in algebraic geometry with applications in brain research, computer vision, cryptography, and theoretical physics (the structure of the universe). She heads a research group of 27 postdoctoral and graduate students, and manages the world's first research center for braid theory in geometry.
Prof. Teicher's academic background includes a doctorate from Tel Aviv University, a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton; Guest lecturer and teaching positions at Columbia University in New York, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Tata Institute for Basic Research in Bombay, Mathematical Research Institute in Kyoto, University of Hong Kong, Shanghai University and others. Prof. Teicher has received prestigious awards such as the Rothschild Fellowship, the Landau Prize, the Delek Prize, the Batsheva de Rothschild Prize and the Minerva Center, and has won international and national grants such as the European Network for Exact Sciences, which ranks first of all, the Academy, NATO, INTAS, the Dou Foundation Israel-USA National Center for Science and Center of Excellence of the National Science Foundation.
Prof. Mina Teicher has served and continues to serve on a long list of international and national committees that include the Council for Higher Education in Israel, the Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Association, a committee (Ministry of Education) for the establishment of the "High School of Science", a Higher Steering Committee for Science and Technology (of the Ministry of Education) , the initiative committee of "Bashar" - the association of academics for society in Israel, the evaluation committee of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, an advisory committee of the German Ministry of Science, an advisory committee of the Italian Science Foundation, the management of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mathematics at Columbia University, (New York), The Council of the Wolf Foundation and the "Helsinki Group" - an advisory committee of the European Union on gender and science and systems of prestigious international journals.
