Uri Sivan

Uri Sivan (; born 1955) is an Israeli physicist who is the 17th president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is also the holder of the Bertoldo Badler Chair in the Technion's Faculty of Physics.

Biography Uri Sivan's parents immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland in 1936. They studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology after being banned from European universities because they were Jewish.

Sivan has a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, and an MSc and PhD in physics from Tel Aviv University.

Sivan lives in Haifa, Israel.

In September 2019, Sivan became the 17th President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, replacing Peretz Lavie.

Awards and recognition

Sivan was awarded the Israel Academy of Sciences Bergmann Prize, the Mifal Hapais Landau Prize for the Sciences and Research, the Rothschild Foundation Bruno Prize, the Technion's Hershel Rich Innovation Award, and the Taub Award for Excellence in Research.