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Addy Pross received his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Sydney in 1970. He is currently a professor of chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and a recognized authority in the field of chemical reactivity, to which he has contributed with the highly cited and acclaimed Pross-Shaik model of chemical reactivity. He has held visiting professorships at many universities worldwide, including Lund University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Padua, the Australian National University in Canberra, and the University of Sydney. He has been a member of the editorial teams of chemical and biological journals and has served on various academic leadership committees. In recent years, he has focused his attention on the biological field, where he has applied his expertise in chemical reactivity to the origins of life.