Assaf Friedler

Assaf Friedler (Hebrew: אסף פרידלר; born August 29, 1971) is an Israeli organic chemist and biochemist who is a full professor at the Institute of Chemistry in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the current dean of the faculty, the chairman of the Hebrew University for the Youth, and a former vice-rector of the Hebrew University.

Friedler was born and raised in Haifa. He started his doctoral studies in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Chaim Gilon. He submitted his thesis in 2000 and received his PhD. In the same year, Friedler moved on to the United Kingdom, where he stayed as a post-doctoral fellow in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Protein Engineering in Cambridge, under the supervision of Alan Fersht.

In 2004, Friedler returned to Israel and joined the Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University as a senior lecturer. In 2009 he was promoted to associate professor and, in 2015, to full professor. Between 2010–2015 he was the head of the School of Chemistry.