Leonid Barenboim is a computer scientist and a senior faculty member of the Open University of Israel. Leonid’s research interests lie in the fields of distributed algorithms, communication networks and big data analysis. In recent years, development in these fields has brought about a revolution in computer science. Computer programs no longer have to reside […]

Anna was born in Moscow, Russia and had grown up in Ramat-Gan, Israel. Anna did her BSc in physics and mathematics at the Tel-Aviv University. She proceeded to an MSc in physics at the WIS under the supervision of Prof. Micha Berkooz in the high energy theory group. Together with a fellow student, Amir Zait, […]

Assaf was born in kibbutz Gezer, but moved at a young age to “Hakfar Hayarok” youth village where he also studied during high school. He did his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology at Tel-Aviv University. During that time he has completed an undergraduate research project in the group of Prof. Gil Markovich in the […]

Liel Sapir is a chemist and PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His thesis ”Biomacromolecules in Complex Solvents” is being written under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Harries. Liel’s research focuses on two main topics. His main topic involves osmolyte-induced protein stabilization. This research is conducted by performing extensive replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations […]

Adi Sheinfeld is an electrical engineer and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. In her postdoctoral research at Duke University Adi continues to combine optics and ultrasound, however now at a microscopic scale for imaging cells. Her research includes photoacoustic and phase […]

Nir Lazarovich, a mathematician and  Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich. Prior to this, he was a PhD student at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.  His dissertation on “Non-Positively Curved Homogeneous Polygonal Complexes” was written under the supervision of Prof. Michah Sageev. As a part of his doctoral research, Nir studied “homogeneous” CAT (0) […]

Amir Wand is a chemist who has recently completed his PhD in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Sandy Ruhman. His PhD thesis “An Investigation of Photobiology with Advanced Ultrafast Spectroscopy” was written in the Institute of Chemistry within Prof. Ruhman’s group,  utilizing ultrafast spectroscopy techniques to study femtochemistry – the study of chemical […]

Sivan Sabato is a senior lecturer at the department of Computer Science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Her main research interest is statistical learning theory and its applications. Before this she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England. Sivan received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of […]

Shahar Dobzinski is a computer scientist and faculty member of the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. His general research interests are is algorithmic game theory, an area on the intersection of computer science, game theory, and economics. He usually studies the theory of computer science aspects of […]

Ariel was born and raised in Jerusalem, and was fascinated by science since early childhood.  Following his army service as a medic, he attended courses at the Open University in such various subjects as anthropology, astronomy, physics and chemistry, before deciding to pursue his chemistry studies full-time at Ben-Gurion University.  He graduated both his BSc and MSc summa […]