Uri Sivan (אורי סיון)(born 1955) is an Israeli physicist who is the 17th president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

[1] In 1991, after three years at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in New York State, Sivan joined the Faculty of Physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and became the holder of the Bertoldo Badler Chair.

[1][2] Sivan set up and led the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Research Institute at Technion from 2005 to 2010, and in 2017 he set up the National Advisory Committee for Quantum Science and Technology of the Council for Higher Education's Planning and Budgeting Committee.

[2] Israel's second astronaut carried the nano-bible, a 0.5 square-millimeter silicon nanochip with 1.2 million letters, created by Uri Sivan into space in 2022.

[4] In September 2019, Sivan became the 17th President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, replacing Peretz Lavie.