Joseph Gale
Professor
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Israel
Biography
Joseph Gale is a professor emeritus of the Hebrew U. of Jerusalem. His original interests were in Environmental Plant Physiology. After a period of research and consultation at NASA, USA, working on their Life Support in Space project, he turned to Astrobiology. Together with his astronomer colleague, Prof. Amri Wandel of the Racach Inst., HU., they have developed courses in Astrobiology for undergraduate students, with both science and humanities backgrounds. He has published more than one hundred refereed papers and has authored/co-authored and edited four books.
Research Interest
Environmental Plant Physiology