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 […]

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 […]

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 […]