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Biography: Curriculum Vitae: Gidon Toperoff, PhD
Telephone: 052-3115271 ID: 038407318 Year of birth: 1976

E-mail: [email protected] Address: 34 Rashbag st., Jerusalem, 9330282
Professional experience
2014-current: Subject Matter Specialist for Sustainable Agriculture and Adaptation to Climate
Change at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs member of a team in charge of developing
knowledge, informing policy makers and training farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices
and climate-smart agriculture. Focusing on climate change and sustainable diets. I coordinate the
ministry task force for risk assessment, adaptation and mitigation of climate change implications for
Israel agriculture. Intra-governmental Processes I am the ministry co-delegate to the National
Climate Change Adaptation Committee and the National Greenhouse Gasses Reduction Committee,
led by the Ministry for Environmental Protection.
2013-2014: Scientific-advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture through the MIMSHAK program of the
Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Advisor to head of the Agro-Ecology
Department over issues of climate change adaptation, pesticide reduction, agricultural waste policy,
and pollutants from the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry in treated waste water.

2008-2013: PhD candidate, Hebrew University. Research on epigenetic mechanisms of complex
diseases using genomic and bioinformatics tools. Lab manager.
2007: Life Sciences, Hebrew University. Brain imaging research technician (functional MRI), lab of
Ehud Zohari.
Education
2008 – 2013 PhD: Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Department of Developmental
Biology and Cancer Research.
2004-2007: M.Sc. in Pharmacology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, School of
Pharmacy, Pharmacology department.

2001-2003: B.Sc. in Biology, Computers and Psychology, Bar-Ilan University excellence
inter-disciplinary program in Brain Sciences. Magna cum laude.