Born 1971 in Tel-Aviv Israel. Married to Netta Bar-yosef, two kids (Iddo and Avigayil)
2019-current: Head, Dept. of Neurobiology.
2015-2016: Visiting Professor, Schaefer scholar, Dept. of Neuroscience & Psychiatry, Columbia University, NY USA
2013-current: Associate Professor (tenured), Dept. of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science
2008-2013: Assistant Professor, Beracha career development chair, Alon Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2004-07: Post-doctoral associate (with Prof. Denis Pare), Fulbright fellow, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
2004: Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Interdisciplinary center for Neural Computation (ICNC), Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (Thesis: Neural representations of learning sensorimotor skills; supervisor: Prof. Eilon Vaadia).
1997-99: M.Sc. in Computational Neuroscience, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1994-97: B.Sc. in Mathematics (summa cum laude), Hebrew Univ., Israel
1994-97: B.A. in Philosophy (summa cum laude), Hebrew Univ. Israel
1993-2000: Senior R&D, algorithmic design and data-mining, High-tech Industry