Curriculum vitae
Owner and CEO
2017 to now
CEO, Strieminetica Grapevine Technologies LTD imported wine grape new cultivars from the USA to Israel.
Lecturer and Science Teacher
2012-2019
Lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on grape breeding
Lecturer at Galilee Management Institute on grape breeding.
Teaching science, agriculture, environment, Sustainable life style, home gardening,
R&D Assistant and Lecturer
2009-2012
Assisting Dr. Benjamin Striem in Food Product Development and Consulting.
Lecturer at Galilee Management Institute on grape breeding.
Director Grape Breeding
2001-2009
Grape Breeder for Sun World International LLC. Develop new seedless table grape varieties by crossing elite parents and selecting desired advanced new grape accessions. Focus on commercial quality attributes such as berry size and cluster structure, eating quality and resistance to powdery mildew.
Member of the USDA Grape Crop Germplasm Committee.
Project Manager
1996-2001
Research Assistant in the Department for Fruit Tree Breeding and Genetics, ARO, Volcani Center, Ministry of Agriculture. Working on physiology of irrigation and nutrition in grapevine.
Small scale wine making and wine tasting of research wines.
Member of the wine tasting panel of the “Wine and Gourmet” magazine.
Manager
1995-1996
Research Assistant in the Department for Fruit Tree Breeding and Genetics, ARO Volcani Center, Ministry of Agriculture. Working on grapevine physiology (bud dormancy) and on developing molecular markers (RAPD) in Citrus.
Member of the wine tasting panel, of the Israel Wine Institute.
Post-Doctoral Associate
1994-1995
Post-Doctoral Associate at the Dept. Horticultural Sciences, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, Working with Prof. Reisch on grape embryogenesis and biolistic transformation.
Doctoral Associate
1990-1994
Developing molecular genetic markers in grapes, using PCR procedures, aimed at establishing linkage with seedlessness.
Member of the wine tasting panel, of the Israel Wine Institute