Avi Braun is a physicist and research fellow at Imperial College London. His dissertation “The Physics of High Carrier Injection Rates in Concentrator Photovoltaics” was written under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey Gordon and was awarded The Rieger Prize for his doctoral research in renewable energy. Avi received his MSc from The Jacob Blaustein Institutes […]

Sharon Shwartz is a physicist and Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. He is primarily interested in quantum optics, biphoton generation manipulation, the theory of nonlinear phenomena at x-ray energies as well as quantum optics in the x-ray regime. Sharon received his PhD from the Technion – Israel Institute […]

  Yael Elbaz-Alon is a biochemist and postdoctoral fellow at Prof. Jodi Nunnari's lab in The University of California, Davis, studying mitochondrial dynamics. Prior to this she did postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in  Dr. Maya Schuldinerb's lab. Yael’s PhD thesis “Structure-Function Study of Multidrug Transporters” was written under the supervision of Prof. Shimon Schuldiner in […]

Raz Palty is a physiologist focusing on cell biology, in particular, on the signalling and cellular homeostasis of calcium. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Isacoff Lab in the University of California, where he received the American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship. This is Raz’s second postdoctoral fellowship, as he previously spent two years as […]

Or Meir is a computer scientist and faculty at the Computer Science Department of Haifa University.  He is primarily interested in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science, and in particular in Complexity Theory, Circuit Lower bounds, Probabilistically Checkable Proofs, Coding Theory and Derandomization. Prior to this, Or was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, at the Institute of […]

Omer Bobrowski, an electrical engineer and mathematician, is currently an assistant research professor in the Mathematics Department at Duke University.  He is primarily interested in random topology – specifically, the algebraic topology of random fields and complexes, probability and stochastic processes, and applied algebraic topology. Omer completed his PhD in 2012 at the Technion – […]

Amir Nevet is currently employed as a Camera Hardware Manager at Apple, and is experienced with electro-optics, light-sources, image sensors, and in leading R&D in multidisciplinary projects. Amir completed his PhD at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2012. In his dissertation research on “Nonlinear Semiconductor Optics,” conducted under the supervision of Prof. Meir […]

Ronen Gabizon is a chemist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His research, conducted under the supervision of Professor Carlos J. Bustamante, uses single-molecule methods to study the activity of molecular motors such as RNA polymerase, with a focus on characterizing the transcription of nucleosomal DNA by RNA polymerase II at the […]

Carmel Rothschild is a physicist and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His is primarily interested in nonlinear optics in small molecules, nano-photonics, organic-electronics and the engineering of thermal radiation. Since being appointed to his post in 2011, he has been awarded both the Alon […]

Gil Segev is a Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University. Professor Segev obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2010, and then spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and one year as a visiting faculty at Stanford’s Computer Science Department. He […]