Gilad Haran (Hebrew: גלעד הרן; born January 16, 1960) is an Israeli biophysicist and physical chemist, a full professor at the Faculty of Chemistry in the Weizmann Institute of Science, and its former dean.

[6] In 1988 Haran started his doctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science[1] under the supervision of Ephraim Katzir (a former President of Israel) and Elisha Haas.

During the next years, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Chemistry of University of Pennsylvania with Robin M.

Upon his coming back to Israel in 1998, he joined as a senior lecturer at the department of chemical physics at the Weizmann Institute.

[1] In 2012, Haran was appointed the 11th dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and served six years in this post.