Zvi Arad

Professor Zvi Arad (Hebrew: צבי ארד‎‎, born 16 April 1942, in Petah Tikva) is an Israeli mathematician and president of Netanya Academic College.

Subsequent to the completion of his high school education he began his academic studies in the Mathematics Department of Bar-Ilan University. He received his first degree in 1964 and after army service went on to complete a second and third degree in the Mathematics Department of Tel Aviv University. In 1968 he joined the academic staff at Bar-Ilan University as an assistant and in 1983 was appointed a Full professor. During the years 1978/9 he held the position of Visiting Scientist at the University of Chicago, and from 1982 to 1983 held the position of visiting Professor at the University of Toronto.

Arad has held a variety of senior academic posts; including at Bar-Ilan University as Head of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Rector, and President of the University. Together with Professor Bernard Pinchuk he founded and established "Gelbart Institute", an international research institute named after Abe Gelbart, and the "Emmy Noether Institute" (Minerva Center). Together with colleagues he established the Mathematic journal – Israel Mathematics Conference Proceedings, distributed by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). From 1984–1985 he served as a member of the Council for Higher Education of the State of Israel. In 1982 he was elected a member of Russia's Academy of Natural Sciences.

Since 1994 he has served on the editorial board of the Algebra Colloquium, a journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published by Springer-Verlag. He also serves on the editorial board of various international publications: South East Asian Bulletin of Mathematics of the Asian Mathematical Society, the IMCP of Contemporary Mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society, and the publication Cubo Matemática Educacional, Temuco, Chile.

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