Amnon Albeck

Amnon Albeck was born in 1958 in Jerusalem

Amnon Albeck was born in Jerusalem on August 1, 1958. His father, the chemist Michael Albeck, was the fifth president of Bar-Ilan University. His grandfather, Hanoch Albeck, was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He earned a BSc in chemistry at Bar-Ilan University in 1982. He completed his PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1988 under Mordechai Sheves. He then did postdoctoral work with Robert Abeles at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

He served in the IDF Armored Corps, in regular service and in the reserves.

In 1990 he joined the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, where he heads the Julius Spokojny Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory. He chaired the department from 2008 to 2011 and was vice-rector from 2014 to 2020. His research covers peptides, enzyme mechanisms and proteases, drug development and tellurium compounds.

In July 2020 he was elected rector of Bar-Ilan University, replacing Miriam Faust. He lives in Moshav Gimzo with his wife Shira, a chemist at the Weizmann Institute. They have 5 children.