ABSTRACT
URI ZOLLER is professor emeritus of chemistry and science education at Haifa UniversityOranim, Kiryat Tivon, Israel. He has more than 220 published journal articles, one patent, and nine books to his name, including the thus-far published 5 parts and the shortly upcoming 6th part (Part F), of the Handbook of Detergents, for which he is the editor-in-chief. He is an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.), and he is currently the chairman of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCHeMS) Committee on Education in Environmental Chemistry. His main areas of interest and research are synthetic organic chemistry, environmental chemistry, and science and environmental education and assessment. Following 10 years of research and development work in the detergent industry, Dr. Zoller received a BSc degree (summa cum laude) followed by an MSc in chemistry and industrial chemistry, respectively, from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, an SM degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, a DSc degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and an EdD in science education from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently, Dr. Zoller is the project coordinator of the Israeli Unifi ed National Infrastructural Research Project (UNIRP).
