Soil and environmental chemistry.
Interactions of chemicals with environmentally important sorbents (soils, sediments, natural organic matter, clay minerals);
sorption thermodynamics;
sorption-desorption hysteresis.
Soil and natural organic matter: composition, structure and participation in biogeochemical processes.
Spectroscopy (fluorescence and IR) in soil and environmental sciences; use of multivariate and decomposition methods in spectroscopic characterization of soil and organic matter.
Mikhail Borisover, Ph.D. (Senior Researcher)
Department of Soil Chemistry, Plant Nutrition and Microbiology
Tel: 03-9683314
Cell: 050-6220314
Fax: 03-9604017
Email: vwmichel@volcani.agri.gov.il
Office location:
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, room 318
Education and Additional Training
1979 - 1984
M.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Organic Chemistry at Kazan State University (Russia)
1983
Training in Laboratory of Thermochemistry (Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Moscow).
1984 - 1988
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Kazan State University/Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology (Russia).
1996 - 1997
Postdoc in the Department of Soil and Environmental Physical Chemistry, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, the Volcani Center, ARO, Bet Dagan, Israel