Roni KASHER

Prof. Kasher is an Associate Professor at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Prof. Kasher did his BSc in Geology and Chemistry, and MSc and PhD in Organic Chemistry from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, whereas his postdoc was at Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel).
Significant accomplishments of Prof. Kasher are the development of novel oligoamide thin-film membranes for nanofiltration, stabilizing metal-organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles on UF membranes for selective removal of pollutants, the development of antifouling reverse osmosis membranes by surface immobilized antimicrobial peptides, antifouling membrane modifications for mitigating with calcium phosphate scaling in reverse osmosis desalination of domestic wastewater, understanding silica scaling mechanisms in brackish water desalination, and the use of saline groundwater as an alternative for seawater as feed for desalination. R. Kasher received many awards and grants, among them are the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) in a joint program with China (NSFC), the German-Israeli Foundation for Science (GIF), and BMBF-MOST Germany-Israel Water Program. He is a coauthor of more than 70 research articles, and in addition patents and book chapters. Kasher supervised and is supervising 37 graduate students (MSc, PhD, and postdocs).