SHORT BIO

I am a Professor of Biology at the University of Haifa and a visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where I had my lab before returning to Israel in 2018. My research focuses on how living systems change and maintain themselves through adaptation, learning, and evolution. A major emphasis of my studies is the adaptive immune system, particularly the populations of B cells (the cells that produce antibodies and confer immunity to disease) and how their diverse populations evolve in health and in response to disease.

My research has always been multidisciplinary, combining perspectives from physics, cognitive science, and biology to study complex adaptive systems. This approach has led to active collaborations across multiple fields of research. Simultaneously, I have been interested in how scientists and society can bridge gaps between Science, Engineering, the Humanities, and Art to conduct research and narrate stories collectively. For instance, over the last 5 years, I have organized yearly international “Artathons” where biologists, designers, and computer scientists explore new ways to visualize biological data.