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Committee Members

Raja Giryes

Raja Giryes

Raja Giryes is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. His deep learning research lab focuses on various aspects of artificial intelligence including generative AI, image processing, visual language models and computational and medical imaging.

Yossi Yovel

Yossi Yovel

Yossi Yovel is a Professor in the School of Zoology and the Head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience in Tel-Aviv University. He studies animal behavior with a focus on animal vocal communication, navigation and sociality.

Oded Rechavi

Oded Rechavi

Oded Rechavi is a Professor of Neurobiology in the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Rechavi’s primary research has focused on transgenerational inheritance and evolution and he mostly studies invertebrates.

Mirjam Knornschild

Mirjam Knornschild

Mirjam Knörnschild is Professor of Evolutionary Ethology at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Museum of Natural History. She studies vocal communication, social behavior and cognition in wild bats using an integrative approach that combines classic field observations with acoustic, genomic and neurogenetic analyses.

Elodie Floriane Mandel-Briefer

Elodie Floriane Mandel-Briefer

Elodie’s research group focuses on the behaviour of vertebrates, and in particular mammals and birds. Her main projects combine the topics of acoustic communication, emotions, and social networks, in order to understand how emotions influence communication, how emotions are transmitted between individuals and influence social relationships, and how acoustic communication affects social interactions.

Amir Teicher

Amir Teicher

Dr. Amir Teicher is a Historian of Science and Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of "Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany" (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and the co-host of the Israeli science podcast "Grasp all, lose all".

Inbal Arnon

Inbal Arnon

Prof. Arnon is linguist, developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist. She is interested in questions of learning and how learnability pressures shape behavior. She works on first language acquisition, on understanding why adults have a harder time learning language, and more recently, on how our cognition shapes the structure of the world's languages and how learnability pressures led to the emergence of linguistic structure.

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