Research Centers and Institutes

Tel Aviv University has over 2,200 faculty members, among them internationally renowned scientists who've made significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in fields as diverse as particle physics, cell biology, biotechnology, genetics, fiber optics, the humanities, arts and social sciences. Israel's largest and most comprehensive university, TAU is comprised of nine faculties, 27 schools, 98 departments and some 130 research institutes and centers. Institutes and centers support research in a specific field. Often interdisciplinary in nature, they provide a formal framework for researchers, as well as their master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students, to collaborate and exchange ideas.

The University operates Israel's largest Supercomputer and the only astronomical observatory in the Middle East. Its Cereal Crops Improvement Institute has supplied improved varieties of seed to nations around the world. The University promotes a multidisciplinary approach to research in neuroscience, environmental studies, cardiac research, cancer research, energy studies, nanoscience and technology, bioinformatics, aging, communications and cultural studies, among others.

The University enjoys extensive research contacts with leading academic and scientific institutions abroad, including over 150 cooperation agreements with universities in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering

• Max and Betty Kranzberg Research Institute of Electronic Devices
• Yitzhak and Chaya Weinstein Research Institute for Signal Processing

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences

• Abramson Center for Medical Physics
• Deutsch Institute of Computer Sciences
• Florence and George S. Wise Observatory
• Heinrich Hertz--Minerva Center for High Temperature Superconductivity
• Hermann Minkowski--Minerva Center for Geometry
• Laura Schwarz-Kipp Institute of Computer Networks
• Minerva-Dead Sea Research Center
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute of Astronomy
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute of Chemical Physics
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute of Solid State Physics
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute of Theoretical Physics
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scientific Computation Center
• Wladimir Schreiber Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities

• Andrea and Charles Bronfman Center for the Media of the Jewish People
• Alliance Center for Iranian Studies
• Center for the Advancement of Scientific and Technological Education
• Chaim Weizmann Zionist Research Institute
• Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
• Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies
• Eva and Marc Besen Institute of Historical Consciousness
• Fred Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization
• Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
• Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center
• ​Institute for Latin American History and Culture
• Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations
• Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry
• Katz Institute for Research in Hebrew Literature
• Kelman Center for Jewish Education
• Konrad Adenauer Center for Jewish-Arab Cooperation
• Laura-Schwartz-Kipp Center for Hebrew Literature and Culture
• Minerva Institute for Germany History
• Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies
• Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
• Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics
• S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies
• Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology
• Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism
• Sverdlin Institute of Latin American History and Culture
• Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence Through Education

Buchmann Faculty of Law

• Cegla Super-Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law
• Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
• Institute for Continuing Legal Studies (with the Israel Bar Association)
• Minerva Center for Human Rights
• Taubenschlag Institute of Criminal Law

George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences

• Botanical Gardens
• Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement
• Institute for Nature Conservation Research
• Laura Schwarz-Kipp Institute of Biotechnology
• Ela Kodesz Institute for Research on Cancer Development and Prevention
• Esfira and Israel Maiman Institute of Proteome Research
• Manna Center for Plant Biosciences
• I. Meier Segals Gardens for Zoological Research

Faculty of Management--Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration

• Erhard Center for Higher Studies and Research in Insurance
• Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel
• Institute for Tourism and Transportation Management Research
• Joseph Kasierer Institute for Research in Accounting
• Marcel and Annie Adams Institute for Business Management Information Systems
• Miles S. Nadal Institute for Technological Entrepreneurship
• Miriam and Georg Faktor Entrepreneurial Center
• Operations Research Center
• Max Perlman Center for Global Business

Sackler Faculty of Medicine

• Amalia Biron Research Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis
• Claire and Amédée Maratier Institute for the Study of Blindness and Visual Disorders
• Djerassi-Elias Institute of Oncology
• Eduarda and Dr. Moshe Ishay Institute for the Study of the Effect of Natural Food on the Quality of Life and Human Health
• Ela Kodesz Institute of Host Defense against Infectious Diseases
• Felsenstein Medical Research Center
• Institute for International Scientific Exchanges in Medical Sciences
• Institute of Occupational Health
• Julius Friedrich Cohnheim-Minerva Center for Cellular and Molecular Phagocyte Research
• Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Eye Institute at the Sheba Medical Center
• Minerva Center for Cholesterol Gallstones and Lipid Metabolism in the Liver
• Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute
• Sackler Institute for Molecular Medicine
• Stanley Steyer Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Research

Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences

• Adler Research Center for Child Welfare and Protection
• B.I and Lucille Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research
• Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society
• David Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy
• Foerder Institute for Economic Research
• Golda Meir Institute of Labor and Social Research
• Institute for National Security Studies
• Institute for Social Research
• Interdisciplinary Center for Children and Youth Studies
• Pinhas Sapir Center for Development
• Sackler Institute of Economic Studies
• University Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation founded by the Peres Center for Peace and TAU

Interdisciplinary

• Adams Super-Center for Brain Studies
• Andrea and Charles Bronfman Center for Media of the Jewish People
• Cancer Biology Research Center
• Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Center for Renewable Energy
• Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
• Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics
• Ela Kodesz Institute for Cardiac Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Elizabeth and Nicholas Slezak Super-Center for Cardiac Research and Medical Engineering
• Gordon Center for Energy Studies
• Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting
• Joan and Jaime Constantiner Institute for Molecular Genetics
• Kovens Health Systems Management Center
• Landa Center for Equal Opportunity through Education
• Levie-Edersheim-Gitter Institute for Functional Brain Imaging
• Marian Gertner Institute for Medical Nanosystems
• Morris E. Curiel Center for International Studies
• Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies
• Porter Super-Center for Ecological and Environmental Studies
• Rosita and Esteban Herczeg Institute for Aging
• Shalom and Varda Yoran Institute for Human Genome Research
• Switzerland Institute for Developmental Biology
• Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
• Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence Through Education
• Wolfson Center for Applied Materials Research