Prof. Benny Chefetz


Contact


The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Tel: +972 (8) 948-9384
Mobile: + 972 54 8820492
Dept. Fax: +972 (8) 947-5181
email: chefetz@agri.huji.ac.il

Education:

1998 - Ph.D. in Soil Chemistry from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1992 - B.Sc. Agri. in Soil Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research Interests:

Physico-chemical processes of organic pollutants such as agrochemicals (pesticides and herbicides), pharmaceutical compounds, and highly hydrophobic pollutants (PAHs and PCBs) that occur in natural and contaminated soils and sediments:
(1) interactions (sorption-desorption behavior) between pollutants and soil organic matter or plant biopolymers (cutin and cutan),
(2) the fate of organic pollutants in the environment,
(3) the fate of organic pollutants in soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater, and
(4) bioremediation processes.

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