Itay Halevy is Full Professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the  Weizmann Institute of Science and head of the Halevy Lab on the history of Earth systems, focusing on Isotopic fingerprint of microbial metabolism.

Prof. Itay Halevy earned his BSc degrees (cum laude) in Geology and in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University in the Negev (2004), where he received the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.

He earned his MSc (2007) and PhD (2010) degrees in Geochemistry from Harvard University, where he was the recipient of a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, a Harvard University Origins of Life Initiative Fellowship, a Harvard University Merit Term-Time Research Fellowship, and a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, among other awards for excellence.

For his postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, Itay was awarded the Texaco Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, as well as the Sussman Center for Environmental Sciences Fellowship from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Itay joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2011, where he directs the Geochemical Laboratory for Experimental and Numerical Simulation (GeoLENS).

He was awarded the Sir Charles Clore Prize for Outstanding Appointment in the Experimental Sciences (2011), an Alon Fellowship from the Israeli Council for Higher Education (2012), the Anna and Maurice Boukstein Career Development Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2015-2019), the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Wolf Foundation (2016), and the Scientific Council Prize for Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2018).

Among other competitive grants, Itay has been awarded two Starting Grants from the European Research Council (2013, 2018) and a Bikura Grant from the Israeli Science Foundation (2012). He served as an Editor-in-Chief for the leading journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2018-2020) and is a current member of the Board of the Israeli Association of Aquatic Sciences. His work has been published in leading journals (e.g., Science, Nature Geoscience, PNAS) and cited thousands of times. 

In 2025, he received the Bruno Award from the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies.