Group Members

Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam

Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam

The Arlyn Imberman Professorial Chair
Principal Investigator
Office: 
+972-8-934-2063
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building
Room: 
285

Former students:

  • Dr. Iair Arcavi (Ph.D. 2013), Einstein Fellow, UCSB and LCO, Assistant Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.
  • Dr. Michael Kieve (M.Sc. 2009), Ph.D. UW Madison, Professor of Physics, Red Rocks Community College.
  • Dr. Yoav Green (M.Sc. 2011 ), Ph. D. Technion, Israel, Research Fellow at Harvard, USA, Assistant Professor of engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  • Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami (Ph.D. 2014), Einstein Fellow, Harvard CfA, GClef Instrument Scientist, SAO, USA, Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Dr. Barak Zackay (Ph.D 2018). IAS member, Princeton IAS, USA, Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Dr. Noam Ganot (Ph.D. 2018). IDF. 
  • Dr. Adam Rubin (Ph. D 2018). ELT Comissioning Scientist, ESO HQ, Garching, Germany
  • Dr. Rachel Bruch (Ph. D 2022). Postdoctoral Scholar, Tel Aviv University.
  • Ilia Labzovsky (M.Sc. 2013), Google Inc.
  • David Tal (M.Sc. 2014), Landa Digital Printing Inc.
  • Danny Khazov (M.Sc. 2016), Nano Dimension Inc.
  • Ira Bar (M.Sc. 2017), Deep Learning and Computer Vision engineer, Albo Climate 
  • Ofek Bengyat (M.Sc 2021). Ph.D., Vienna University, Austria
  • Samantha Goldwasser (M.Sc 2022). Data Analyst, Placer.ai
  • Shani Nachshon (M.Sc 2022), Software engineer, google 

Former Postdocs:

  • Dr. Hagai Perets (2009), Assistant Professor, Technion, Israel 
  • Dr. Carles Badenes (2009-2011), Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  • Dr. David Polishook (2010-2011), Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Dr. Assaf Sternberg (2009-2012), Visiting researcher, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland
  • Dr. Dong Xu (2009-2012), Astronomer, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
  • Dr. Ofer Yaron (2009-2013), Assistant Staff Scientist, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Dr. Annalisa De Cia (2012-2015), ESO Fellow, ESO HQ, Garching, Germany
  • Dr. P. Vreeswijk (2012-2017), Staff, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Neatherlands
  • Dr. Evgeny Gorbikov (2013-2014), HP Inc. Israel
  • Dr. Assaf Horesh (2013-2016), Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Dr. Giorgos Leloudas (2014-2016), Assistant Professor, DARK Cosmology Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Dr. Joel Johansson (2015-2017), Postdoc, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Dr. Steve Schulze (2016-2020), Research Associate, Northwestern University, USA
  • Dr. Yi Yang (2017-2020), Postdoc, UC Berkeley, USA