Daniel Chamovitz is an American-born Israeli plant geneticist and the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
10 Facts About Daniel Chamovitz
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Daniel Chamovitz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Chamovitz began his undergraduate studies at Columbia University in New York City, NY, and then transferred to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied plant science.
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In 2002, Chamovitz was a visiting scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and he has been a visiting professor at the School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences at Peking University.
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Daniel Chamovitz founded the interdisciplinary Manna Center Program in Food Safety and Security at Tel Aviv University in 2013, and was Dean of the George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University from 2014 to 2018.
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Since January 1,2019, Daniel Chamovitz serves as the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and holds the university's Miles and Lillian Cahn Chair in Food Security and Plant Science.
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Daniel Chamovitz's lab has elucidated the role of the phytochemical indole-3-carbinol in plant development.
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Daniel Chamovitz has published over 70 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with over 8,000 citations listed in Google Scholar.
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Daniel Chamovitz was member of the Faculty of 1000, Biology.
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Daniel Chamovitz is known for his popular science book What a Plant Knows, which was first published in 2012, with an updated and revised edition appearing in 2017.