Professor Zeev Gross, founder of the Israeli delegation for the International Chemistry Team, led the Israeli Chemistry Team to four Olympic medals — two gold and two silver — at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), held in the United Arab Emirates with 90 countries participating. 

Gross received all his academic degrees at Bar-Ilan University, continued as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow with Professor J.T. Groves at Princeton University and joined the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology as a faculty member in 1990. Currently, he is the Reba May & Robert D. Blum Professor of Chemistry at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion. In recent years, he has served two terms as the dean of the division of Continuing & External Studies, and he continues to chair multiple youth outreach activities in chemistry. His earlier scientific contributions were the elucidation of factors that affect electronic structures and reactivity profiles of complexes that play a key role in heme-enzyme like catalysis. Since 1999, when his research group made major discoveries on corroles, the main emphasis of his research is the elucidation of the fundamental physical and chemical properties of these unique molecules. This is accompanied by the utilization of the corresponding metal complexes as catalysts for energy relevant processes, as drug candidates for treating cancer and metabolic diseases, and other applications. Professor Gross is the recipient of the highest recognitions granted by the Porphyrin and Phthalocyanines Society (the Hans Fischer Lifetime Achievements award) and the Israel Chemistry Society (the Gold Medal).