The Faculty of Science includes 212 members of academic staff, approximately 1,700 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students.
The Faculty includes six research institutes and academic programs: Mathematics, Physics, Applied Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences, as well as an Environmental Science program. The Faculty also boasts a number of research centers dedicated to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Structural Biology, Marine Biogeochemistry, Computational Quantum Chemistry, Quantum Information, Mathematical Analysis, and Molecular Dynamics, among others. Two interdisciplinary research centers include doctoral degree tracks: Neural Computation (neuroscience) and the study of Rationality. The Faculty is a partner in three inter-faculty academic programs for graduate degrees (Environment, Hydrology, and Biotechnology).
At the undergraduate level, we teach the primary basic fields of science: Mathematics, Physics, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Earth Sciences. The recent transition toward interdisciplinary research has driven us to develop and launch integrated programs over the last decade, combining Environmental Science, Chemistry and Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and Psychology and Life Sciences (in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences). The Faculty also offers academic programs for Excellent students, such as “Amirim” and “Etgar”. Our undergraduate programs are designed to allow the students to choose whether to focus on a specific subject from the beginning of their studies, or whether to defer the decision until the end of their first year. The first year in sciences offers a variable teaching program, designed to facilitate the transition into the university and help with the decision making regarding the desired scientific direction. We employ a range of teaching methods to encourage critical thinking, personal development, communication skills and experience working in research groups.
The research areas available to MSc. and Ph.D. grad-students in the Faculty of Science include, among others, research fields such as Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Embryonic Cells and other areas of Biomedicine, protecting biodiversity, Biophysics, Geology, Geochemistry, Fossil Fuels, Hydrology, Biotechnology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Applied Industrial Chemistry, Evolution, Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Solid-State Physics, Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics, pure and Applied Mathematics, Microelectronics and Micro-Optics.
The Faculty of Science is located at the Edmond J. Safra Campus in Givat Ram since the mid-20th century. The location of the entire Faculty on one campus increases possibilities for interdisciplinary research partnerships, expanding research horizons and providing new breakthroughs. This trend is reflected in our challenging academic programs that provide unique merit-based subsistence scholarships for excellent students. These programs integrate basic scientific disciplines from the bachelor’s degrees, such as Chemistry-Biology, Computer Science-Biology, Physics-Chemistry and Environmental Science, as a method of confronting the challenges faced by modern science.
Every year, the Faculty of Science recruits new academic scientists with a record of outstanding research in the aforementioned fields. This enables the Faculty to maintain and even build upon its longstanding reputation for excellence. We are interested to recruit candidates whose research engages with more than one field, who wish to dedicate themselves to provide their students an extensive and detailed scientific education, and who are willing to be involved in the Faculty’s mission of shaping the future of science and technology in the State of Israel.