Moris S. Eisen immigrated to Israel in 1977 from Colombia. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Jochanan Blum. In 1990, as a Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, he joined Prof. Tobin J. Marks’ group at Northwestern University. In 1992, he was awarded the State of Israel Alon Fellowship and joined the Department of Chemistry at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (since 2007, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry). He has been a Full Professor since 2003 and has served as the Head of the Institute of Catalysis Science and Technology at the Technion since 2004. He is incumbent of the Samuel O. Friedlander Academic Chair in Chemistry.