Associate Professor
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Desert Architecture & Urban Planning
Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research

After graduating from the Technion (B. Arch) in 1986, Evyatar Erell joined the Desert Architecture and Urban Planning group at Ben-Gurion University, where he was employed as an architect in the design of innovative energy-saving buildings. He later studied Geography at Ben Gurion University (M.Sc.) and Architecture at Adelaide University (PhD), and was appointed Associate Professor in 2007. 

Prof. Erell has studied glazing systems, daylight control and passive cooling techniques for buildings, and participated in several joint projects supported by the European Union, the last of which culminated in a book on 'Roof Cooling Techniques'. Prof. Erell’s research has also included studies of the urban microclimate, such as an investigation of the effect of buildings on the deposition of dust in a desert city, the development of a computer tool for modeling air temperature in urban street canyons, and a field study of the intra-urban temperature differences in a mid-latitude city. He is co-author of a book titled 'Urban Microclimate: The Design of Spaces between Buildings'.  

Prof. Erell is a member of several expert committees at the Israel Institute of Standards, and has contributed to drafting national standards for thermal insulation and energy certification of buildings.