Alex Hayat, an electrical engineer, is a Horev Fellow and assistant professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His research is aimed at developing devices based on novel states of matter, for quantum technologies, low-power ultrafast nanoelectronics, solar energy and bio-medical imaging. Alex is interested in combining novel states of matter – such as superconductivity, quantum condensates and […]

Hadas Soifer is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory hosted by Prof.  Zhi Xun Shen. She is researching femtosecond time and angle-resolved photoemission studies of strongly correlated electron systems. Her research focuses on ultrafast electronic processes that are initiated by the interaction of strong laser light with matter. The […]

Noam Gross is a physicist working as Director of Physics at KiloLambda Technologies Ltd. He received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 2011. His thesis “Experimental Study of Universal Three-Body Physics with Ultracold Bosonic Lithium” was written under the supervision of Prof. Lev Khaykovich. Noam's PhD research concentrated on the trapping and cooling of neutral […]

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 […]