Assoc. Prof. Michelle Portman leads the MarCoast Ecosystem Integration Lab at the Technion ̶ ̶ Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Portman graduated UC Berkeley with a B.Sc., the Technion with a M.Sc. and a PhD from University of Massachusetts, Boston. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Marine Policy at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Her current research is on: integrated coastal zone management, marine spatial planning water sensitive planning and marine/coastal conservation.