Group Members

Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam

The Arlyn Imberman Professorial Chair

Principal Investigator

avishay.gal-yam@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-2063

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

285

Avner Sass

avner.sass@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6258

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

275

Dr. Ofer Yaron

Associate Staff Scientist

ofer.yaron@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6513

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

275

Ido Irani

PhD student

ido.irani@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6512

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

273

Erez Zimmerman

PhD student

erez.zimmerman@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6070

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

284

Asaf Horowicz

Msc student

asaf.horowicz@weizmann.ac.il

Asaf Kidron

Lab Technician

asaf.kidron@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

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