Group Members

Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam

The Arlyn Imberman Professorial Chair

Principal Investigator

VP.DC@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-2907

Stone Administration Building

Room:

403

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

Erez Zimmerman

PhD student

erez.zimmerman@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6510

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

280

Daniel Golod

Msc student

daniel.golod@weizmann.ac.il

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

271

Asaf Horowicz

Msc student

asaf.horowicz@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6509

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building

Room:

278

Former students:

Dr. Iair Arcavi (Ph.D. 2013), Einstein Fellow, UCSB and LCO, Associate 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, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Barak Zackay (Ph.D 2018). IAS member, Princeton IAS, USA, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physics, 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. Algorithm developer, NOVA Ltd.
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
Ido Irani (Ph.D 2024), Postdoc, Princeton University

Former Postdocs:

Dr. Hagai Perets (2009), Professor, Faculty of Physics, Technion, Israel
Dr. Carles Badenes (2009-2011), Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. David Polishook (2010-2011), Director, Weizmann Astrophysical Observatory, 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), Associate Staff Scientist, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Dr. Annalisa De Cia (2012-2015), Staff Astronomer, 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), Professor, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Giorgos Leloudas (2014-2016), Assistant Professor, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Maayane Soumagnac (2014-2021), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, BIU, Israel
Dr. Joel Johansson (2015-2017), Postdoc, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr. Steve Schulze (2016-2020), Research Associate, Northwestern University, USA
Dr. Yi Yang (2017-2020), Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Nora Strotjohann (2019-2024), Researcher, German Federal Weather Service
Dr. Ping Chen (2021-2024), Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Study in Physics, Zhejiang University, China