Prof. Margel was also the Head of the National Committee for Chemistry in High School Education and the president of the Israel Chemical Society between 2006n -2009. Currently Prof. margel was nominated by the Israel Academy of Sciences as chairman of the National Committee of Chemistry towards IUPAC. Professor Margel is a polymer chemist whose main interest lies in the fields of polymers, biopolymers, colloidal chemistry, surface chemistry and biotechnology. He has published some 170 publications, has been awarded 29 patents and he is the author of a few chapters in several books.