Education
| 1992 | Postdoctoral fellow, Chemical Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
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| 1990-1 | Postdoctoral fellow, Genetics, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford CA, USA. |
| 1990 | Ph.D., Virology, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 1983 | M.Sc., Virology, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 1981 |
B.Sc. with distinction, Plant Pathology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
Employment History
| 2016- to date | Professor, Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
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| 2009-2016 | Associate Professor, Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 2003-2009 | Senior Scientist, Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 2000-2003 | Special appointment, Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 1998-9 | Associate Staff Scientist, Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 1996-7 | Associate Staff Scientist, Molecular Cell Biology and Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 1993-5 | Scientist, Chemical Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
Academic Administration
| 2017 – to date | Member of the Internal Review Board of Educational Research (IRB-EDU), Weizmann Institute of Science.
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| 2015-to date | Head of the Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 2015 | Head of the Science Teaching Board of Studies, Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 2014-to date | Academic Advisor and PI of the National Centre for High-School Biology and Environmental Sciences Teachers, Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science (Co-Advisor: Prof. Tali Tal, Technion, Haifa, Israel). |
| 2008-to date | Head of the Biology Path in the Rothschild-Weizmann Program for Excellence in Science Education, Weizmann Institute of Science (Co-Head: Prof. Adi Kimchi, Weizmann Institute of Science). |
| 1997-to date |
Head of The Biology Group, Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science. |
Selected Other Appointments
| 2021 | Co-Editor of the book: Genetics Education - Current Challenges and Possible Solutions (Springer, with Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah). |
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| 2021 | Co-Editor of the book: Long Term Research and Development in Science Education - What Have We Learned? (Brill-Sense Publishers, with Prof. Avi Hofstein, Prof. Abraham Arcavi, and Prof. Bat-Sehva Eylon). |
| 2019-to date | Editorial board member of the Springer book series Contributions from Biology Education Research |
| 2015-2019 | Associate Editor, Journal of Research in Science Teaching. |
| 2014 | Co-Chair, the European Researchers in Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB) bi-annual conference, Technion, Israel (with Prof. Tali Tal, Technion, Haifa, Israel). |
| 2013 | Mentor at the Sandra K. Abell Institute for Doctoral Students, George Washington University. |
| 2012-to date | Member of the Publications and Advisory Committee, National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST). |
| 2008-to date | Member of the Editorial Board of the Research in Science Education Journal. |
| 2004-2010 | Member of the Academic Committee of the European Researchers in the Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB) organization (Elected chairperson for 2008-2010). |
| 2000-to date | Member of The Professional National Committee for Biology in High-Schools, Israeli Ministry of Education. |
Awards
| 2012-2013 | Centre for Society and the Life Sciences (CSG) Scholarship for visiting scholars, The Netherlands. |
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| 2006-2009 | The Helena Rubinstein Career Development Chair. |
| 2006 | Fridenberg Foundation Award of The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. |
Competitive Grants (since 2003)
| 2021-2026 | The National Centre for High-School Biology Teachers, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant |
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| 2021-2024 | Biomedical Calculus for outstanding 9th graders, The Trump Foundation |
| 2021-2023 | Personalized on-line science education in senior- and junior-high schools: Research, development, and implementation of the PeTeL environment, The Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Education Grant (with Prof. Ron Blonder, Dr. Giora Alexandron, Dr. Yael Shwartz). |
| 2017-2022 | Collective reasoning around texts across disciplines towards deliberative democracy, Israel Science Foundation – Center of Excellence (with Prof. Baruch Schwarz [coordinator], Prof. Boris Koichu, Prof. Michal Tabach, and Dr. Einat Heyd- Metzuyanim). |
| 2017-2018 | Learning with molecular animations: Teacher roles in knowledge transformation, Garvan - Weizmann Collaborative Program - Research Grant (with Prof. Ron Blonder). |
| 2015-2019 | Guiding and accompanying junior-high school mathematics and science coordinators for building professional learning communities in schools, The Tramp Foundation (with Prof. Bat-Sheva Eylon and Dr. Zahava Scherz ). |
| 2014-2017 | Characterization of the use of Adapted Primary Literature as a model for scientific writing in high-school biology, Israel Science Foundation. |
| 2014-2019 | The National Centre for High-School Biology and Environmental Sciences Teachers, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant. |
| 2014-2018 | Promoting Attainment of Responsible Research and Innovation in Science Education (PARRISE): Empowering and facilitating science teachers and teacher educators across Europe, EU-FP7 Science-In-Society Program. |
| 2012-2015 | Science and technology for junior-high school: Rewrite and update learning and teaching materials for 7th - 9th grades, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant, (with Prof. Bat-Sheva Eylon and Dr. Zahava Scherz). |
| 2011-2012 | Gene Tamers: Adapting scientific articles for learning biotechnology, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant |
| 2009-2011 | Learning high-school genetics in teacher-led versus scientist-led outreach-laboratories, Israel Science Foundation. |
| 2008-2010 | Bioinformatics tools in the service of biotechnology, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant |
| 2006-2008 | Characterizing children's spontaneous interests in science and technology, Israel Science Foundation. |
| 2005-2007 | Genetic engineering for biotechnology students, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant. |
| 2005-2006 | Virtual lectures in the research topics, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant. |
| 2003-2004 | Internet-based learning environment about sub-cellular structures, The Israeli Science Teaching Center Grant. |