Boris Koichu received his M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Lviv State University in 1991 and worked as a high-school teacher for eight years in his native school. He repatriated to Israel in 1998 and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in 2004. Following two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of California, San Diego, he came back to the Technion as a faculty member in 2006. He moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science in March 2017 and is currently the Head of the Department of Science Teaching.
Prof. Koichu is an associate editor of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, a founding editor of Implementation and Replication Studies in Mathematics Education and a guest editor of two special issues: a special issue of ZDM – Mathematics Education devoted to implementation and implementability of mathematics education research, and a special issue of Journal of Mathematics Behavior devoted to task variables in mathematical problem posing. In addition, he serves as a representative of Israel to ICMI – International Commission of Mathematics Instruction.
Since 1989, Boris is married to Olga, who is a QA engineer. They have three children, Michael, Julia and Dalia, and a granddaughter Sophie. Last but not least, Boris likes jogging and playing tennis and enjoys listening to audiobooks in Russian and Ukrainian while driving from Haifa where he lives to Rehovot where he works.