Short CV
Education
2004
Ph. D. in Parasitology, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
1999
M.Sc. in Animal Sciences, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, MAGNA CUM LAUDE.
1996
B.Sc. in Animal Sciences, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
Positions
2013-present
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
& Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
2008-2013
Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology
& Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
2007
Lecturer, Department of Parasitology, The Hebrew
University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
2003-2006
NIH postdoctoral fellow, Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. NY,
USA
2001
International scholar, Department of Microbiology, Pathology &
Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC, USA.
Honors and awards
2016
Awarded the Olitzki Prize of the Israel Society
for Microbiology (ISM).
2014
Awarded the ERC (European Research Council)
Consolidator Grant.
2013
Awarded a prize for outstanding teaching
achievements, Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University.
2012
Awarded a prize for outstanding research achievement, Faculty of Medicine
of the Hebrew University;
Awarded the Minerva Stiftung, ARCHES award for
Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science.
2010
Awarded the Jacob & Lena Joels Memorial
Foundation Senior Lectureship for Excellence in the Life and Medical
Sciences.
2009, 2010 & 2012
Outstanding lecturer award, Hebrew
University.
2009
Awarded the Gaia Luoni Prize from Institute
Pasteur on outstanding achievements in malaria genetics.
2007/2008
Awarded the Golda Meir Lectureship
Fellowship.
2007
The most outstanding 2007 Israeli projects in the “EU 7th Framework Program
for Research & Technological Development”;
The Young Scientists’ program of the
German-Israeli Foundation.
2005 & 2006
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene Scientific Award in recognition of scientific excellence in Molecular,
Cellular and Immunoparasitology;The MPM distinction award at the Woods Hole
Molecular Parasitology Meeting.
2002
Awarded the Horowitz scholarship of distinction
for PhD students.
2001 & 2002
Awarded the Baron Hirsch fellowship.
1999
Awarded the Bin-Nun scholarship of distinction
from the Oceanographic & Limnological Sciences Foundation.
