Curriculum Vitae

June 29, 2023

Goldschmidt, Eliezer E.

The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture,
Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
P. O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Tel: 972-8-9489353; Fax: 972-8-9489899; Email: eli.goldsmit@mail.huji.ac.il

Date of birth:  July 15, 1938
Place of birth: Jerusalem, Israel
Marital Status: Married + 6

1956-1958       Military Service, IDF

Positions

2006 –  Retirement.
1999- James De Rothschild Professor of Horticulture
1983- Professor of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1978-1983 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1972-1977 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Sabbaticals

  • Davis, California, Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics, (Summer 1973).
  • Harvard University, The Biological Laboratories (1976-1977).
  • Davis, California, Pomology (Fall 1984).
  • Smithsonian Inst., Washington D.C. (Winter 1985).
  • North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, Plant Science (1990).
  • Harvard University, Center for Jewish Studies (1990/91).
  • University of Nottingham, (England), Plant Science (1994/5).
  • CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia (Summer 2004).

Miscellaneous

1978  Acting Head, Department of Horticulture.
1980-1983  Chairman of the Teaching Committee, Faculty of Agriculture.
1982-1983 Chairman, Interdisciplinary Evaluation Committee of BARD.
1986-1990  Chairman, Committee for Graduate Students in Agriculture and Applied Biology.
1987- 1996 Member of the Israeli Citrus Marketing Board.
1991-1993   Member of the Life Sciences Senior Nomination Committee of the Hebrew University.
2000-2003 Member of the Humanities and Social Science Senior Nomination Committee of the Hebrew University.
2001-2003 Chairman of Plant Science Studies.
2002- Chairman of the Scientific Council, The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.
2004-2006 Chairman, Field Crops and Horticulture Evaluation Committee, BARD.

Teaching

Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Horticulture, Plant Physiology, and the Jewish Laws of Agriculture.

Twenty six Ph.D. graduate students and numerous M.Sc. students.

Scientific Publications (1966-2023)

About 200 Research Articles in International Journals and numerous Hebrew  publications in local magazines.

Books

The Biology of Citrus ( P. Spiegel-Roy and E.E. Goldschmidt, Authors ), Cambridge University Press, 1996.

The Etrog Citron: Tradition and Research, Eliezer E. Goldschmidt and Moshe Bar-Joseph, eds. Mosad Harav Kook, Jerusalem, 2018. ( Hebrew).

The Citron Compendium: The Citron (Etrog) Citrus medica L: Science and Tradition, Eliezer E. Goldschmidt and Moshe Bar-Joseph, eds. Springer, 2023.

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