Shlomo Nir has been a professor emeritus at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) since 2003. He has also held the positions of professor of soil, water sciences at HUJI (2005), associate professor (1980), RPMI, Buffalo (1970), and associate professor at University of NY, Buffalo. Education: He holds a BS and MS in math and physics and a PhD in theoretical physics (1969) and life sciences (1970). His research area is water purification. He has designed nanocomplexes between organic cations and clays for efficient removal from water of chemicals and microorganisms. He has developed models for 1. adsorption of cations to surfaces by accounting for electrostatic equations and specific binding; 2. pore formation by peptides; 3. kinetics of filtration for a solution with several pollutants (the model has yielded simulations and predictions for removal of chemicals and bacteria, including cyanobacteria for laboratory and pilot scales); 4. filtration and degradation (the model, which predicts steady sate phenomena was recently applied in (i)removal from fish ponds of off-flavor compounds and (ii) removal of bacteria). He has published 257 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and books, four books, and holds six patents. He has an h-index of 76.