Group

Yair Mau

Principal Investigator

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
— Piet Hein

Erez Feuer

PhD student

plant responses to drought and heatwaves

Yonatan Schwartz

MSc student

Temperature heterogeneity in crop canopies

Co-advisor: David Helman

Dolev Arav

MSc student

Urban tree resilience across the globe

Co-advisor: Yakir Preisler

Michael Ruggill

MSc student

Urban tree monitoring and early-warning stress indices

Co-advisor: Yakir Preisler

Omer Tzuk

Postdoc

Water-plant relations in drylands, active inference regarding plant behavior and decision-making

Former members

Oded Hollander

2024–2026, MSc student
Plant-plant interactions in a consumer-resource framework
Co-advisor: Niv DeMalach

Nurit Goldberg

2020–2024, PhD student
soil compaction, soil salinization

Isaac Kramer

2018–2022, PhD student
soil salinization, irreversible soil degradation processes, sustainable resource use
website

Laura Rez

2020–2022, MSc student
plant water fluxes, heatwave impact on fruit trees

Yuval Bayer

2020–2022, BSc Amirim project
Optimal stomatal control

Avi Gross

2018–2020, MSc student
Plant water storage dynamics

Taiwo Adeyemo

2018–2020, MSc student
Irreversible soil degradation

Avigail Kaner

2017–2021, Research Specialist

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Praxis is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and praxis are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.
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