Danny Ben-Zvi, a developmental biologist and postdoctoral fellow, is both a Rothschild Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. His postdoctoral research, hosted by Prof. Douglas Melton and Prof. Sharad Ramanathan at Harvard University’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, focuses on diabetes. Danny received his PhD in 2011 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. His dissertation in […]
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July 16, 2013
Arren Bar-EvenArren Bar-Even is a biochemist and postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is primarily interested in design principles of metabolic pathways, a systems approach to cellular metabolism, bioenergetics and thermodynamics of biochemical reactions, one-carbon assimilation pathways, electrosynthesis and electricity-dependent microbial cultivation, and metabolic engineering. Arren will be opening a new research group […]
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July 16, 2013
Sasha SodinSasha Sodin is a mathematician and assistant professor at Princeton University. Currently, Sasha is interested in the spectral properties of random operators originating from mathematical physics, particularly, random band and random Schroedinger operators. Sasha received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2010. In his thesis “Random Matrices with Independent Entries, and Other Topics in […]
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July 16, 2013
Amir ShlomaiAmir Shlomai is an MD-PhD faculty member at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel-Aviv University, where he has been teaching since 2010. In July 2012, he joined Prof. Charles Rice’s lab at the Rockefeller University and was appointed Instructor in Clinical Investigation as a part of the institution’s Clinical Scholar Program. His research at Prof. Rice’s lab focuses […]
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July 16, 2013
Guy RonGuy Ron is a nuclear physicist and senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Guy heads a research group that studies two of the fundamental forces of nature, the ElectroWeak force, and the Strong Nuclear Force, this is done by conducting experiments on systems which are affected by these forces. The group is trying […]
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July 16, 2013
Klim EfremenkoKlim Efremenko is a computer scientist and research fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, California. His research focuses on theoretical computer science, abstract algebra and the interaction between the two. The primary focus of his research is in the area of locally decodable codes. He has already constructed new […]
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July 16, 2013
Assaf ManorAssaf was born and raised in Hadera. From an early age he showed attraction to science studies and experiments held at the local “Techno-da” chapter. After graduation and army service, Assaf completed a double B.Sc. degree in both Physics and Electrical- Engineering at the Technion, where he found the field of quantum light-matter interaction a source […]
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July 16, 2013
David TsivionDavid Tsivion is a chemist and PhD student at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His thesis “Guided Growth of Horizontal Nanowires” is being written under the supervision of Prof. Ernesto Joselevich. In his research, David developed the guided growth of horizontal nanowires as a solution to their organization and integration into nanocircuits. In this unique […]
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July 16, 2013
Sophia Buhbut-SinaiSophia completed her under graduate studies in Chemistry (2007) at Bar-Ilan University Focusing on pharmaceutical chemistry. She then graduated her MSc cum laude (2009) and PhD in Solar energy (photovoltaic cells) focusing on photo- electrochemical cells, in the group of Prof. Arie Zaban at Institute of Nanotechnology and Advance Materials, Bar-Ilan University. During her MSc and […]
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July 16, 2013
Eitan SchechtmanEitan is currently an assistant professor at the University of California Irvine. His lab explores the role of sleep in human cognition. Eitan earned his BA in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010. He then completed his PhD in Neural Computation at the Hebrew University’s Edmund and Lily Safra Center for Brain […]