Ronit Bustin is an electrical engineer and postdoctoral research fellow in Princeton University. She received the Rothschild Fellowship in 2013 and the women postdoctoral scholarship of Israel’s Council for Higher Education (VATAT) for her postdoctoral studies. Ronit received a BSc degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a MSc degree in electrical engineering in […]

Haim Beidenkopf is a physicist and senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Condensed Matter. He is a member and Principal Investigator of WASP – the Weizmann Institute Atomic Scale Physics Lab. His work in the lab, along with his fellow researchers, focuses on electrons subject to the periodic potential of the ionic crystal, […]

Liat Benmoyal-Segal is a biochemist and physiologist working at Beilinson Hospital. Liat is focusing on the involvement of the cholinergic system in the progression of Parkinson’s Disease (PD), particularly from the genetic perspective. Although PD was first described in 1815 by Dr. James Parkinson, its etiology is not fully understood, and no cure has been […]

Eran Segev is an electrical engineer researching nanotechnology,specifically Quantum Nano-Mechanics. He chose nanotechnology because it is a revolutionary technological innovation that will create a massive change in all aspects of people’s lives. Quantum Nano-Mechanics is an emerging field in which the mechanical behavior of nano-scale systems in the quantum domain is studied. Eran explores ways to […]

Efrat Shema-Yaacoby is a Fulbright Scholar doing postdoctoral research in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in the lab of Dr. Bradley Bernstein. Research topic: analysis of combinatorial epigenetic modifications in cancer.

Efrat Mashiach, a computer scientist and software engineer at Google, received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2013. Her thesis, “Structural Bioinformatics: Flexible Molecular Docking,” was written under the supervision of Prof. Haim Wolfson and Prof. Ruth Nussinov. The new methods that Efrat developed, designed and programmed (C++) for computational prediction of protein complexes […]

Biosketch Avital Adler is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in neuro-computation in the Molecular Neurobiology Program and the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience  at the Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the role of inhibition in experience-dependent synaptic plasticity Avital received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. Her […]

Eran Small is a physicist and Project Leader at The Samsung Electronics Medical Lab. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. His thesis, “Statistical Properties of Light Propagating in Non-Linear Systems”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Yaron Silberberg as part of the Ultrafast Optics Group in […]

Tal Lev-Ami is a computer scientist, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary, a cloud-based image management system. Tal received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Shmuel Sagiv. His PhD research, “Efficient Transformers for the Verification of Heap Manipulating Programs”, explored the problem of automatically verifying computer programs operating on the […]

Nathan Keller is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. His current research focuses on probabilistic combinatorics, the application of analytical tools to combinatorics and in particular the influences of variables on functions in product spaces. His secondary interest lies in cryptography, specifically cryptanalysis. Nathan received his PhD from […]