Assaf Shwartz

Assaf Shwartz is an Associate Professor in Ecology and Conservation in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he heads the Human and Biodiversity Research Lab. His interdisciplinary research examines how human activities influence biodiversity and how people can benefit from conservation, integrating ecology, geography, sociology, psychology, and economics. He earned his PhD from the Natural History Museum of Paris and Université Paris 1 in 2012 and has been elected chair of the Israel Young Academy.