Appointment period: 1/10/2022 – 30/09/2025

Dan Kerem received his Ph.D. in Marine Biology in 1971 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. Retired head of research and senior researcher at the Israeli Naval Medical Institute. President of the Israeli Marine Mammal Research & Assistance Center (IMMRAC), former member (2007-2016) of the scientific committee of the Agreement for the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea & Contiguous Atlantic area (ACCOBAMS) and member of IUCN’s Cetacean Specialists Group. Research interests include Marine Biology, Ecology and Conservation, with a focus on marine mammals, as well as comparative and human diving physiology and biomedical signal processing. Married to Talia and father to Sigal, Raviv, and Yaniv.

 E-mail: dankerem@research.haifa.ac.il