Dan Blumberg

Dan G. Blumberg (Hebrew: דן בלומברג) is a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the Department of Geography and Environmental Development. He currently serves as vice president for Regional and Industrial Development after serving as vice president and dean for Research and Development from 2014 to 2019. Blumberg also serves as director of the Homeland Security Institute. He is the head of the Earth and Planetary Image Facility, a remote sensing research laboratory. In 2016 Blumberg was elected as a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Blumberg also led the successful BGUSat mission, a 3U cubesat mission built in collaboration with the Israel Aerospace Industry and launched successfully February 2017. Blumberg has been one of the most influential people leading the Beer-Sheva Digital and Cyber ecosystem development. He is one of the leading academic figures in Israel and during July 2019 visited South Korea as part of an academic and economic delegation led by Israel President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin. Blumberg has been appointed by the Minister of Innovation Science and Technology and the Government of Israel as chairperson of the Israeli Space Agency, replacing Isaac Ben-Israel in July 2022.