David Asaf Email & Phone Number

Israel

Leading the formulation of the ministry's policy, work plans and their implementation in the field of runoff management, drainage and floods, soil conservation and regenerative agriculture and environmental agriculture.In this process, regulator of the 11 drainage authorities in Israel, Icludes: formulating professional guidance, rules of arrangement and assimilating professional knowledge in the field of runoff management. Responsible for promoting a set of economic and professional incentives to promote shift agriculture and runoff management in Israel, with farmers and drainage authorities in an annual scope of approximately NIS 100 million/year.

Jerusalem Area, Israel

Director of the Israeli national physics laboratory.

Jerusalem - Israel

The role includes concentrating information from a variaty of industrial branches, for assisting to formulate industrial policy in the fields of chemistry, plastics, wood, paper, recycling, ext. and centralizing environmental aspects realted to the industry.Leading major projects such as: Evaluating optional natural gas feed industries, building a database of adaptation technologies for climate change, advising on a policy for natural resources managment.

Advising for the Ministry Industry, Trade and Labor to the Environmental and Sustainable Development AdministrationBridging between Governance and Academy in order to establish a scientific support in environmental policy design work.Management and planning of projects promoting industrial environmental issues, editing, writing professional opinions.The role includes concentrating information from a variety of industrial branches, for assisting to formulate industrial policy in the fields of chemistry, plastics, wood, paper, recycling, ext. and centralizing environmental aspects related to the industry.Leading major projects such as: Evaluating optional natural gas feed industries, building a database of adaptation technologies for climate change, advising on a policy for natural resources management.

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environmental Sciences and Energy Research department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.Working on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions with Prof. Dan Yakir.

Independent consultant for the Ministry of Environmental ProtectionAdvising and preparing reports on diverse environmental, technical and regulatory issues.Advising on environmental legal issues

Managed and conducted all aspects of projects, including over a dozen air quality field campaigns.• Established goals, arranged and directed logistics, setup, breakdown for campaigns• Conducted and directed lab analyses, data interpretation, conclusions and recommendations. Topics include ambient concentrations, chemistry and source identification of multi-phase air pollution.• Wrote interim and final reports; submitted and presented to funding and regulatory agencies.• Managed and supervised teams of lab & field personnel at on-site and remote locations.• Skilled at operation and troubleshooting of standard and complex environmental measurement instruments including differential optical absorbance spectroscopy (DOAS) instrument.• Calibrated national network of ambient NOx, SO2, O3 and CO monitors for Ministry of Environmental Protection• Collaborated on joint research and training with Jordanian, Israeli, German, USA partners.

Assistant at the Earth and Environmental science departments for several courses:* Air pollution dispersion: Collaborated on curriculum and exam development and gave lectures; Teaching meteorological balloon sondes lab; Teaching HYSPLIT, Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model; Teaching CALINE4, California LINE Source Dispersion Model; Teaching ISCST3, Industrial Source Complex Gaussian plume algorithm Short Term model* Introduction to Environmental quality sciences: Collaborated on curriculum and exam development and gave lectures* Atmospheric chemistry: Collaborated on curriculum and exam development and gave lectures; Teaching a One-Dimensional Chemical Transport Model "PCUAHCTM" * Ozone in the Atmosphere* Atmospheric Electricity* Modeling water flow and quality in natural lakes

Worked as an organic chemist at the research and development laboratory at the Pilot Plant.

Ph.D, Atmospheric Sciences

Thesis: " Long-Term Measurements of Nitrate Radicals at a semiarid Urban Site" Under the supervision of Prof. Menachem Luria

M. Sc, Environmental Sciences

Thesis: "Evaluation and determination of background Concentrations of Air Pollutants in Israel" Under the supervision of Prof. Menachem.

B.Sc, Chemisty And Environmental Sciences