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 […]

Sasha 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 […]

Amir 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 […]

Guy 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 […]

Klim 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 […]

Assaf 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 […]

David 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 […]