Sophia 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 […]

Eitan 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 […]

Yoav Livneh is a principal investigator at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Yoav studied Psychology and Biology for his BSc at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He initially planned to be a psychotherapist, but soon fell in love with Neurobiology. He then continued to do his PhD in Neurobiology at The Hebrew University […]

Daphna Nachmani is a microbiologist and Principle Investigator at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Life Sciences.  She opened her lab upon return from her postdoctoral training with Prof. Pier Paolo Pandolfi at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Daphna received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the […]

Yoav Rosenberg is a geochemist researching the ability of internal processes such as salt precipitation to remove radium from the solution. His findings can shed some light and allow a better understanding on the dynamics of Ra co-precipitation with evaporate minerals and could be applied for future management of radioactive waste solutions. Yoav is now […]

Avishay was born and raised in Kibbutz Shefayim. After high school, he joined the ATUDA program and finished a BSc in Software Engineering and a BA in Mathematics at the Technion.  He then joined the army and served for 6 years as an algorithmic researcher and a team leader. This was his first encounter with mathematical and algorithmic research, […]

Avital Swisa is a biochemist and PhD student in the Department of Cellular Biochemistry and Human Genetics at The Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. She is currently writing her dissertation on “LKB1 role in pancreatic beta cell dynamics” under the supervision of Prof. Yuval Dor. Avital is studying the role of the serine-threonine kinase LKB1 […]

Alex Hayat, an electrical engineer, is a Horev Fellow and assistant professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His research is aimed at developing devices based on novel states of matter, for quantum technologies, low-power ultrafast nanoelectronics, solar energy and bio-medical imaging. Alex is interested in combining novel states of matter – such as superconductivity, quantum condensates and […]

Hadas Soifer is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory hosted by Prof.  Zhi Xun Shen. She is researching femtosecond time and angle-resolved photoemission studies of strongly correlated electron systems. Her research focuses on ultrafast electronic processes that are initiated by the interaction of strong laser light with matter. The […]

Noam Gross is a physicist working as Director of Physics at KiloLambda Technologies Ltd. He received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 2011. His thesis “Experimental Study of Universal Three-Body Physics with Ultracold Bosonic Lithium” was written under the supervision of Prof. Lev Khaykovich. Noam’s PhD research concentrated on the trapping and cooling of neutral […]