Prof. Oded Aharonson

Prof. Oded Aharonson

The Weizmann Institute of Science

Prof. Oded Aharonson was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He earned a BSc in Applied and Engineering Physics (1994) as well as a Master's degree (1995) from Cornell University, New York. He completed a PhD in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at MIT (2002). He served as a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, U.S., from 2002, until he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2011, where he now heads the Center for Planetary Science. Prof. Aharonson studies planets, both within our solar system and beyond (Exoplanets). He is a member of various space exploration projects, notably the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Cassini mission to Saturn and its moon Titan, as well as the European JUICE mission to Jupiter and its icy moons. He is the Mission Scientist of SpaceIL, the Israeli team competing for the Google Lunar XPrize. Aharonson leads the SpaceIL Science Team in exploring the enigmatic magnetism of the lunar rocks.

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