Rivka Bekenstein, raised in Jerusalem, has been interested in science since childhood. Following her military service, she began studying physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During her second year, while participating in an exclusive lab course supervised by Prof. Zvi Ovadiahu, she became interested in experimental physics. Her fascination with nonlinear physics came soon […]

Oded Berger-Tal is a desert ecologist and senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His main interest is the integration of behavioral ecology into wildlife conservation and management. On a theoretical level, he is helping develop the conceptual basis for the emerging field of ‘conservation behavior, as well as working to improve the accessibility of […]

Yoav Bauman was born and raised in Jerusalem. During high school, Yoav became increasingly interested in the Life Sciences and subsequently decided to major in Biology. Following his military service as a combat soldier he started his studies in the Life Sciences undergraduate program at the Hebrew University where he graduted magna cum laude.  During his studies, Yoav became acquainted […]

Or Ordentlich is an information theorist and Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT hosted by Professor Yury Polyanskiy. Prior to this he was a PhD student at Tel-Aviv University. His thesis “Structured Codes for Wireless Communication” was written under the supervision of Prof. Uri Erez. His main research interests are in the fields of Information Theory, Communication Theory […]

Moshe Goldstein is a physicist and senior lecturer in Tel-Aviv University’s Department of Condensed Matter Physics, in the School of Physics and Astronomy. His research is primarily concerned with the theory (both analytical and numerical) of nanoscale and low-dimensional quantum condensed matter systems, including: semiconductors, normal and superconducting metals, carbon-based materials, topological insulators, and ultracold atomic […]

Erez Zohar is a senior lecturer at the Racah Insitute of Physics, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research mainly focuses on the interfce between quantum many body theories and quantum information and technology, and he is specifically interested in developing tools for dealing with strongly interacting systems and their application to quantum field […]

Avi Saig is a neurobiologist. He is Head of Research and Development in the Department of Educational Technology in the Davidson Institute of Science Education, which is the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He specializes in popular science and has over 200 publications in this genre. Avi received his PhD from the […]

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. […]