Sivan Rafaely-Abramson was raised in Moshav Ma’ale Gamla on the Golan Heights. As a student in the combined honors program in physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she completed an undergraduate research project under the supervision of Prof. Raphael D. Levine in the Department of Physical Chemistry. After receiving her BSc, Sivan […]

Emanuele Dalla Torre is a physicist and  faculty member of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Physics. Emanuele heads the “Non-equilibrium Many-body Physics” group in Bar-Ilan. The group studies the dynamics of large and interacting systems, starting from the microscopic quantum world. Quantum mechanics follows the principle of superposition: if an atom can move to the left […]

Ronen received his B.Sc. degree (cum laude) in 2008 and the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in 2011 from the Tel Aviv University, Israel, both in Electrical Engineering. Since 2011 he is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Meir Feder and Prof. Mark Shtaif, in the school of EE at Tel Aviv University. […]

Liran was Born in Holon, and moved to Rishon LeZion at a young age. While in high school, he studied toward a bachelor degree in mathematics at Bar-Ilan University, and graduated summa cum laude. During Liran’s military service, he started his MSc studies at Tel-Aviv University.  After his discharge he graduated summa cum laude, writing […]

Amir Erez is a faculty member in the Racah Institute of Physics in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the Hebrew University, he was a research fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York), the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda), and Princeton University. Currently his research focuses on the biophysics and bioinformatics of […]

Dana Moshkovitz is an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department in MIT. A member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAL) and a member of the Theory of Computation Group, she has served as the ITT Career Development Chair and received the Jerome Saltzer Award for teaching. Her main […]

Shai Carmi is a physicist and senior lecturer in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary interests lie in the models and applications of the sharing of long genetic segments in isolated populations; population and medical Jewish genetics; the modeling of ancestry in hybrid populations; and the population genetics of the Druze. He combines his interests […]

Uri Roll, an ecologist by training, is highly interested in various aspects of conservation biology. His principal research involves looking at problems with spatial components in them or at spatial aspects of ecological problems, from both the local and the global perspective. Uri is currently a Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Research Associate […]

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 […]

Arren 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 […]