Miriam is a graduate in chemistry of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She is a Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. She is founder of Desalination, the international journal for desalting and purification of water and was Editor-in-Chief from 1966 to 2009. In 2009 she launched the journal Desalination and Water Treatment to accommodate the growing flood of papers in the field. She now continues as Founding Editor of both journals. She is editor and publisher of the Desalination Directory, the international online database in desalination and water reuse. She the established Directory 1981 with support from the US Office of Saline Water, Washington, DC.
She is Secretary General of the European Desalination Society whose headquarters are based at the Faculty of Engineering, University Campus Bio Medico of Rome, where she has programed and organized courses and and about 40 conferences in Europe and around the world.
She has been a research associate for science communication at Boston University, Center of Philosophy and History of Science, president of the International Federation of Science Editors and Dean of the School for Science Communication at the Mario Negri Institute for Biomedical Research, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy.
AWARDS
President of Israel Ephraim Katzir for establishing Weizmann Science Press and the Israel Journals of Science
Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek award for founding the Israel Program for Scientific Translation for the US National Science Foundation
Star of Italy Award from the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano
International Desalination Association (IDA) Lifetime Achievement Award
European Desalination Society Sidney Loeb Award
Honorary Member of the European Membrane Society
Honored by the Desalination Branch, China Water Enterprises for 50 years in the field of desalination
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philadelphia High School for Girls
South Korea Distinguished Fellow
Saudi Arabia Saline Water Conversion Corporation Award for Lifelong Contribution in Desalintion
El Manar University, Tunisia award for collaboration for the development and dissemination of research on desalination and water treatment