Prof. Uri Sivan is a physicist, a full professor in the Technion’s Faculty of Physics, and a nanotechnology researcher. He has served as the president of the Technion since October 2019. Sivan was born in 1955 and served as a pilot in the Air Force. He completed his BSc, MSc, and PhD at Tel Aviv University, and then worked for three years at the IBM Research Center in New York. Sivan joined the Technion’s Faculty of Physics in 1991, which was a kind of personal closure since his parents studied at the Technion after immigrating to Israel from Poland in 1936, because European universities did not accept them due to their Jewishness. Sivan laid the foundations for the “Community of Nano Researchers” which led to the establishment of the Russell Barrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI). The Institute received a lot of publicity when Sivan, together with Dr. Ohad Zohar, engraved the entire Bible on a tiny silicon chip. The Nano Bible was written as part of an educational program developed at the Institute to increase the interest of young people in science and especially in nanotechnology. Sivan is an active researcher and lecturer, has held a number of senior positions at the Technion and in Israel over the years, and he has won many awards for his scientific work.