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. 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.