The scientific team

• Dr. Revital Ben-David Zaslow - Chief Collection Manager
• Yonatan Gur - Database manager, Collection manager of Fungi

Curators

• Prof. Shai Meiri - Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates, the Steinhardt Museum
• Prof. Tamar Dayan - Chair, the Steinhardt Museum Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates
• Prof. Eli Geffen - Curator Emeritus of Terrestrial Vertebrates
• Dr. Karin Tamar - Curator of mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians
• Dr. Yosef Kiat - Curator of Ornithology
• Prof. Yossi Yovel - Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates
• Prof. Eran Levin - Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates
• Prof. Yoram Yom-Tov - Curator emeritus of terrestrial vertebrates
• Prof. Yoel Rak - Curator emeritus of evolution of early Hominids

Associate Curator

• Dr. Roi Dor - Associate Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates

Collection managers

• Dr. Amos Belmaker - Collection manager of birds
• Avigail Ben-Dov Segal - Head of Feather Identification Lab
• Tal Vardi - Technical Assistant

Taxidermy

• Igor Gavrilov - chief taxidermist
• Dr. Stanislav Volynchik - Preparator and taxidermist

Volunteers

• Avraham (Rami) Biran
• David Kobilar
• Sima Kotev
• Judith Friedman
• Yael Piontkewits
• Hillel Buck

Curators

• Prof. Jonathan Belmaker - Curator of Fishes
• Prof. Roi Holzman - Curator of Red Sea fishes, the Steinhardt Museum
• Dr. Bat-Sheva Rothman - Curator of the fish and aquatic parasites collections
• Dr. Frida Ben-Ami - Curator of Mollusks
• Dr. Dimitry Schepetov - Curator of marine molluscs
• Prof. Noa Shenkar - Curator of marine invertebrates
• Prof. Omri Bronstein - Curator of marine invertebrates
• Prof. Micha Ilan - Curator Emeritus of sponges
• Dr. Stanislav Pen-Mouratov - Curator of Free-living Nematodes
• Dr. Zafrir Kuplik - Curator of Coelenterates
• Dr. Liron Goren - Curator of worms
• Dr. Tom Shlesinger - Curator of corals
• Dr. Ernst Uzhansky - Acoustical Oceanographer
• Prof. Menachem Goren - Curator of fish
• Prof. Yehuda Benayahu - Curator of marine invertebrates
• Prof. Bella Galil - Curator (emerita) of Crustaceans

Associate Curator

• Dr. Nir Stern - Associate Curator of Fishes

Collection managers

• Dr. Sigal Shefer - Collection manager of Porifera
• Henk Mienis - Collection manager of the mollusk and brachiopod collections
• Oz Rittner - Collection manager of the mollusks and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) collections
• Dr. Noga Sokolover - Collection manager of Bryozoa and Echinodermata
• Dr. Irit Zohar - Collection manager of the fish skeletons
• Dr. Revital Ben-David Zaslow - Chief Collection Manager
• Lion Novak - Collection manager of Ascidiacea
• Asaf Nashiv - Technical Assistant
• Tom Morav - Technical Assistant
• Lior Naaman - Technical Assistant
• Sagi Otorgust - Technical Assistant
• Ram Fine Idan - Technical Assistant

Volunteers

• Moti Ginter
• Nathan Sharon
• Ronit Vilker Alhadef

Curators

• Prof. Netta Dorchin - Chief curator of entomology
• Dr. Sergei Zonstein - Curator emeritus (Spiders)Taxonomy
• Prof. Gal Ribak - curator of Coleoptera
• Dr. Gideon Pisanty - Curator of bees and parasitic wasps
• Dr. Zohar Yanai - Curator of aquatic insects collection
• Dr. Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou - Curator of Hemiptera | Taxonomy, systematics, and functional morphology
• Prof. Abraham Hefetz - Associate curator of Hymenoptera
• Dr. Dany Simon - Associate curator of Mantodea, Blattodea and Neuroptera
• Prof. Vladimir Chikatunov - Curator of Coleoptera

Associate curators

• Dr. Yael Mandelik
• Dr. David G. Furth - Associate curator of entomology and museum advisor
• Prof. Inon Scharf - Associate curator of Neuroptera

Collection managers

• Dr. Zoya Yefremova - Collection manager of parasitoid Hymenoptera
• Dr. Moshe Guershon - Staff manager for entomology
• Dr. Wolf Kuslitzky - collection manager for Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)
• Dr. Armin Ionescu - Collection manager of ants (Formicidae) and Aculeata (Hymenoptera)
• Dr. Tania Novoselska - Collection manager of Heteroptera
• Ariel Leib Leonid (Laibale) Friedman - Collection manager of Coleoptera and Odonata
• Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Morgulis - Collection manager of acalyptrate flies (Diptera) and the primary type collection
• Dr. Mike B. Mostovski - Collection manager of Diptera
• Dr. Malkie Spodek - Collection manager of the Hemiptera (Auchenorrhyncha & Sternorrhyncha)
• Dr. Irina Zonstein - Sawflies, aculeate wasps, parasitic wasps
• Oz Rittner - Collection manager of the mollusks and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) collections
• Ofir Tomer - Collection manager of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
• Ida Rotter - Technical Assistant

Volunteers

• Dr. Avi Keysary - Volunteer at the division of entomology
• Dr. Binyamin Shalmon - מתנדב
• Amir Weinstein - מתנדב
• Petar Gefen

Curator

• Dr. Yuval Sapir - Curator of the Herbarium

Associate curator

• Dr. Jotham Ziffer Berger - Associate curator, the Steinhardt Museum Herbarium

Collections manager

• Dr. Razy Hoffman - Collection manager of the herbaria of marine and freshwater plants
• Dr. Jotham Ziffer Berger - Associate curator, the Steinhardt Museum Herbarium
• Yonatan Gur - Database manager, Collection manager of Fungi
• Bruria Gal - Collection manager of Fungi

Volunteers

• Yacov Ashani
• Miri Lazar
• Zvi Avni

Curators

• Prof. Dafna Langgut - Curator of the Archaeobotanical Collection
• Prof. Lidar Sapir-Hen - Curator of Archaeozoological Collection
• Dr. Meirav Meiri - Curator of Bioarchaeology, and Head of the Paleogenomics Laboratory
• Dr. Yuri Katz - Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Geology
• Dr. Olga Orlov-Labkovsky - Curator of Micropaleontology collection

Associate Curators

• Prof. Sigal Abramovich - Paleontology (Ben-Gurion University)
• Prof. Miriam Belmaker - Archaeozoology (University of Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Collections manager

• Daria Leibin Graiver - Technical Assistant

Volunteers

• Dr. Daniella Bar-Yosef - מתנדבת
• Dr. Yehiam Shlezinger

Curator

• Prof. Dorothée Huchon - Curator of the molecular collections

Collection manager

• Dr. Tamar Feldstein-Farkash - Head of the Molecular Systematics Laboratory
• Sahar haj Yahya - Technical Assistant

Curators

• Prof. Hila May - Curator of Physical Anthropology; Head of Dan David Center
• Prof. Rachel Sarig - Curator Dental Anthropology
• Dr. Vivian Slon - Curator and Head, Human Ancient DNA Lab; Paleogenomics
• Prof. Israel Hershkovitz - Curator emeritus of Physical Anthropology
• Prof. Baruch Arensburg - Curator

Technical assistants

• Yfat David
• Anton Levy

Administrative manager

• Shir Arbel

• Dr. Ronit Justo-Hanani - Assistant Professor for Biodiversity Regulation and Policy
• Prof. Amiyaal Ilany - Data Scientist
• Dr. Shay Rotics - Data Scientist and Curator of rodents
• Dr. Rotem Zelingher - Agricultural and ecological economics
• Prof. Alon Shepon - Sustainable nutrition
• Dr. Yehezkel Resheff - Data Science

• Dr. Tomer Gueta - Center Development Director
• Dr. Nirit Lavie-Alon - Head of the of Citizen Science Projects Network and Content Development
• Naama Arkin - Head of Technology Infrastructure Development
• Zohar Afek - Training Materials Designer and Developer
• Nasreen Bawakny - Citizen Science Coordinator - Arab Speaking Community
• Israel Peer - Implementer of the butterfly monitoring program in BioCollect
• Dr. Shay Rotics - Data Scientist and Curator of rodents
• Dr. Yaela Golumbic - Senior Researcher. Head of Citizen Science R&D
• Mor Matzliach - Community Coordinator
• Shmulik Friedman - Master Student
• Michal Janias - Master Student
• Bella Beizerman - Research Assistant
• Dorit Wolenitz - Volunteer at the Israel Center for Civilian Science

• Dr. Yaron Hershkovitz - Director, National Center for Aquatic Ecology | Freshwater Ecology
• Avital Katz - Database management, International researchers

• Dr. Amir Perelberg - Manager, Ha-Maarag
• Iris Yerushalmi - Administrative manager
• Dr. Orr Comay - Data ecologist & coordinator of the RedBook of Invertebrates in Israel
• Ido Livne - Remote Sensing Coordinator
• Oren Auster - Editor and coordinator of the State of Nature Report
• Tomer Karni - Ecologist
• Dr. Talia Gabay - Monitoring Programs Coordinator
• Dan Michaelan - GIS & Cartography Coordinator
• Bar Pezarke - M.Sc Student
• Zohar Afek - Data Processor

• Uri Ramon - Open Landscape Institute
• Dr. Aviv Avisar - Manager, Nature & Landscape Research UnitOpen Landscape Institute (OLI)