Michal Horowitz, Professor Emeritus

Michal Horowitz is Professor Emeritus in Physiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focusses on problems associated with heat adaptation to hot deserts environments, heat stress and heat acclimation dynamics, with emphasis on molecular-physiological linkage yielding heat acclimation mediated cross-tolerance or its interference, and heat acclimation memory as an epigenetic phenomenon. Her international academic activities included member/co-chair of IUPS Commissions in Environmental Physiology and Thermal Physiology.

She is Editor in Chief of JBCPP, Editorial Board of Temperature, and Reviewers Boards of American Journal of Physiol-R and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.