Liran was Born in Holon, and moved to Rishon LeZion at a young age. While in high school, he studied toward a bachelor degree in mathematics at Bar-Ilan University, and graduated summa cum laude. During Liran's military service, he started his MSc studies at Tel-Aviv University.  After his discharge he graduated summa cum laude, writing […]

Amir Erez is a faculty member in the Racah Institute of Physics in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the Hebrew University, he was a research fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York), the National Cancer Institute (Bethesda), and Princeton University. Currently his research focuses on the biophysics and bioinformatics of […]

Dana Moshkovitz is an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department in MIT. A member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAL) and a member of the Theory of Computation Group, she has served as the ITT Career Development Chair and received the Jerome Saltzer Award for teaching. Her main […]

Danny Ben-Zvi,  a developmental biologist and postdoctoral fellow, is both a Rothschild Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. His postdoctoral research, hosted by Prof. Douglas Melton and Prof. Sharad Ramanathan at Harvard University’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, focuses on diabetes. Danny received his PhD in 2011 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. His dissertation in […]

Arren Bar-Even is a biochemist and postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is primarily interested in design principles of metabolic pathways, a systems approach to cellular metabolism, bioenergetics and thermodynamics of biochemical reactions, one-carbon assimilation pathways, electrosynthesis and electricity-dependent microbial cultivation, and metabolic engineering. Arren will be opening a new research group […]

Sasha Sodin is a mathematician and assistant professor at Princeton University. Currently, Sasha is interested in the spectral properties of random operators originating from mathematical physics, particularly, random band and random Schroedinger operators. Sasha received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2010. In his thesis “Random Matrices with Independent Entries, and Other Topics in […]

Amir Shlomai is an MD-PhD faculty member at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel-Aviv University, where he has been teaching since 2010. In July 2012, he joined Prof. Charles Rice’s lab at the Rockefeller University and was appointed Instructor in Clinical Investigation as a part of the institution’s Clinical Scholar Program. His research at Prof. Rice’s lab focuses […]

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 […]