Dr. Dmitry Batenkov is a Mathematician and postdoctoral fellow at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, primarily interested in computational and theoretical aspects of inverse problems in signal and image processing using algebraic modelling, putting emphasis on accurate recovery of discontinuous features. He received his PhD in 2014 with the thesis “Algebraic Reconstruction of […]

Yoav Lahini is a physicist and Pappalardo postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and  a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is currently working on nonlinear and quantum photonics, quantum information and soft-matter physics. Yoav’s research interests are: The Anderson localization of light, nonlinear effects in disordered and quasi-periodic systems, quantum walks and quantum many-body […]

Most of Osip Schartz's doctorate was devoted to various advanced optical microscopy techniques, enabling imaging with better resolution and sensitivity. The central project of my PhD was experimentally achieving, for the first time, sub-diffraction limited imaging by taking advantage of quantum properties of light. He has  authored and co-authored 19 published or submitted papers on optical […]

Ronit Bustin is an electrical engineer and postdoctoral research fellow in Princeton University. She received the Rothschild Fellowship in 2013 and the women postdoctoral scholarship of Israel's Council for Higher Education (VATAT) for her postdoctoral studies. Ronit received a BSc degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a MSc degree in electrical engineering in […]

Haim Beidenkopf is a physicist and senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute's Department of Condensed Matter. He is a member and Principal Investigator of WASP – the Weizmann Institute Atomic Scale Physics Lab. His work in the lab, along with his fellow researchers, focuses on electrons subject to the periodic potential of the ionic crystal, […]

Liat Benmoyal-Segal is a biochemist and physiologist working at Beilinson Hospital. Liat is focusing on the involvement of the cholinergic system in the progression of Parkinson’s Disease (PD), particularly from the genetic perspective. Although PD was first described in 1815 by Dr. James Parkinson, its etiology is not fully understood, and no cure has been […]

Eran Segev is an electrical engineer researching nanotechnology,specifically Quantum Nano-Mechanics. He chose nanotechnology because it is a revolutionary technological innovation that will create a massive change in all aspects of people's lives. Quantum Nano-Mechanics is an emerging field in which the mechanical behavior of nano-scale systems in the quantum domain is studied. Eran explores ways to […]

Efrat Shema-Yaacoby is a Fulbright Scholar doing postdoctoral research in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in the lab of Dr. Bradley Bernstein. Research topic: analysis of combinatorial epigenetic modifications in cancer.

Efrat Mashiach, a computer scientist and software engineer at Google, received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2013. Her thesis, “Structural Bioinformatics: Flexible Molecular Docking,” was written under the supervision of Prof. Haim Wolfson and Prof. Ruth Nussinov. The new methods that Efrat developed, designed and programmed (C++) for computational prediction of protein complexes […]

Biosketch Avital Adler is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in neuro-computation in the Molecular Neurobiology Program and the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience  at the Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the role of inhibition in experience-dependent synaptic plasticity Avital received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. Her […]