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Education

2015-2021 :      PhD in Neuroscience, Brain stimulation laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Abraham Zangen    TITLE: Effects of Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over the Medial Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortices on Relapse to Alcohol Use and Related Brain Activity.

2013-2015 :      MA in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Ora Kofman         

209-2012:     BA in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities & Social               Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

Professional Experience and Appointments

2025-present Research Associate and Manger of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Center (SCAN), Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

2021-2024       Research Associate, Clinical Brain Imaging R&D Center (C.BIRD), Imaging department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel, under the supervision of Dr. Abigail Livny-Ezer

Teaching

2024-2025       Adjunct teacher, Social Psychology course, The Division of Structured Programs and Certificate Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

2019-2024       Workshop instructor in a teaching workshop for the junior academic stuff at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

2016-present   Owner of a public lectures business in neuroscience with expertise in brain stimulation. Collaboration with "Think&Drink", and "Publeak" organizations.

2019-2021       Teacher in the Psychology and Neuroscience courses for excellent high school students as part of “The Da Vinci” program in Jusidman Science Center for Youth Dedicated at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

2016-2019       Tutor in the course “Introduction to Bio-statistics” for bachelor students (giving oral lectures) in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

2016-2021       Tutor for Ben-Gurion University 's dean's "Marathons" in “Physiological psychology” for bachelor students.

2015-2016       Part time teacher in the program “Negishut”, which provides high school students from the south of Israel university classes to encourage the pursue of higher education.

2014-2015      Tutor in the course “Physiological psychology” for bachelor students (giving oral lectures) in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.