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Jennifer Davis

FELLOW
The Catholic University of America

 

 

vis is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Catholic University of America. Her research interest is early medieval
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Sol Efroni

FELLOW
Bar-Ilan University
Sol Efroni is a Professor in Systems Biomedicine Lab at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on systems biology. Network analysis in the development of malignant diseases. Drug discovery, design and delivery research
Daniel Fabrycky

Daniel Fabrycky

FELLOW
University of Chicago
Daniel Fabrycky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Chicago.
Eric Ford

Eric Ford

FELLOW
Penn State University
Eric Ford is a professor in astrophysics and an expert on how planets are formed at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, at Penn State University.
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Éric Fournier

FELLOW
West Chester University

Éric Fournier is a Professor in the Department of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are: late antiquity (history); Episcopal exile; persecution; rhetoric of persecution; early Christianity; North Africa; and vandals.

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Yaniv Fox

FELLOW
Bar-Ilan University

Yanix Fox is a senior lecturer in the Department of General History at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are Late Antique and Early Medieval history.

 

Gad Freudenthal

Gad Freudenthal

FELLOW
CNRS

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has written on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, mainly in the Middle Ages and in the eighteenth century, and has focused his research on Greek philosophies of matter.

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Nir Friedman

FELLOW
Weizmann Institute
Nir Friedman is a Professor in Department of Immunology at Weizmann Institute of Science. His research focuses on systems immunology of T cells. Intercellular communication, differentiation and antigen specificity.
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Isaiah Gafni

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Andrew Collins

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Collins
FELLOW
University of New South Wales

 

Andrew Collins is an Associate Professor in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales. His research interests are immune repertoire development, human germline immunoglobulin genes, mouse germline immunoglobulin genes, somatic hypermutation, and antibody isotype functions.

Gabriel Danzig

Gabriel Danzig
Gabriel
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FELLOW
Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Gabriel Danzig is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Bar Ilan University. Gabriel has published on Plato and Aristotle's political and ethical thought, and numerous articles on different aspects of Xenophon's writing and thought. His recent articles have placed a special emphasis on the comparative study of Xenophon's ethical and political concepts. Together with Dave Johnson and Don Morrison, he edited a collection of essays from an international conference held in Israel, the first collection we know of on the comparative study of Plato and Xenophon. This project is a natural extension of his previous research.

Read more about Professor Danzig here.

J. Anthony Day

Anthony Day
J. Anthony
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FELLOW
Independent Scholar

 

Anthony Day teaches world literature and Southeast Asian history, and writes scholarly articles on Southeast Asian literature and film. Formerly a faculty member at Yale-NUS College Singapore, Dr. Day is now an independent scholar. 
2018-2019 Fellow: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature
Read more about Dr Day here

 

Leon Y Deouell

Leon Y. Deouell
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FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Leon Deouell is Professor in Brain Research at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He researches the interface between conscious and non-conscious perception, roles of attention and spatial representation in conscious awareness.The focus of the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University is on the interface between automatic, non-conscious stages of information processing in the brain and conscious perception and action. 

2019-2020 Organizer: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Consciousness: an Interdisciplinary Approach to a Perennial Puzzle

Read more about Professor Deouell here

Alexandra Dmitrieva

Alexandra Dmitrieva
Alexandra
Dmitrieva
INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
Research and Development Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

Alexandra Dmitrieva is the Co-founder, grant proposal writer and field researcher at the Support, Research and Development Center in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is co-leading mix-methods study: “Strengthening collaboration between penitentiary and civil healthcare sectors to improve prisoners' access to tuberculosis treatment in the era of COVID-19 pandemic”.

Before her arrival at Israel she conducted  participatory educational training on human rights, harm reduction, and public health approaches to drug use for prison staff members-employees of prison facilities located in Ukraine.

Francois Du Bois

Francois du Bois
Francois
Du Bois
FELLOW
University of Leicester

Francois du Bois is Professor of Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He has a long-standing research interest in both legal transplantation and the horizontal application of constitutional/fundamental rights. Most recently, he has explored these themes in journal articles and book chapters which have analysed the impact of the UK Human Rights Act and South Africa’s post-Apartheid Bill of Rights respectively on English and South African contract law and tort law. His books include Dignity, Freedom and the Post-Apartheid Legal Order (2009) with Jaco Barnard and Drucilla Cornell; Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2008) with Antje du Bois-Pedain; and The Practice of Integrity: Reflections on Ronald Dworkin and South African Law (2005).

Arye Edrei

Arye Edrei
Arye
Edrei
FELLOW
Tel Aviv University

Arye Edrei is a professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University. He teaches a variety of courses on the history and philosophy of Jewish Law.His main fields of interest are Talmudic jurisprudence and Jewish Law in the 20th century. Together with Professor Suzanne Last Stone, a current IIAS fellow, Edrei is the co-editor in chief of "Dinei Israel", a Journal of Jewish Law, published jointly by the Tel-Aviv University Law Faculty and the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University.

2018-2019 Organizer: Rethinking Early Modern Jewish Legal Culture 

Read more about Professor Edrei here

Daniel Fabrycky

Daniel Fabrycky
Daniel
Fabrycky
FELLOW
University of Chicago
Daniel Fabrycky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Chicago.

His research interests include: 

  1. Extrasolar planets - orbital mechanics; formation and dynamical evolution; observational techniques.
  2. Binary and Variable stars - time-resolved photometric surveys; unsolved mysteries. 

2018-2019 Fellow: Big Data and Planets

Read more about Professor Fabrycky here

 

 

Michael Farber

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Michael
Farber
FELLOW
Queen Mary, University of London

Michael Farber is Professor of Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London. He is known for his research in high dimensional knot theory, Morse theory and topology of closed 1-forms. His recent research interests focus on applied and computational topology, topological robotics, applications of topology to statistics and computer science. 

2017-2018 Fellow Geometric,Topological and Computational Aspects of High-Dimensional Combinatorics

Read more about Professor Farber here

Yuval Feldman

Yuval Feldman
Yuval
Feldman
FELLOW
Bar-Ilan University

Yuval Feldman is The Mori Lazarof professor of legal research at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. He obtained his Ph.D. ( Jurisprudence and Social Policy) from the UC Berkeley in 2004 after receiving his L.L.B. and B.A (Psychology) from Bar-Ilan University.

He teaches Employment Law, Law and Psychology, Law and Behavioral Economics and Empirical Legal Methods. His areas of research include Behavioral Analysis of Law, Experimental Law and Economics, Ethical Decision-Making, Regulatory Impact and Social Norms, Compliance, Formal and Non-Formal Enforcement Strategies.

Read more about Prof. Yuval Feldman here.

Klaus Fiedler

Klaus Fiedler
Klaus
Fiedler
FELLOW
Heidelberg University

Klaus Fiedler is a Full Professor of Psychology, affiliated to Heidelberg University. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and of the German National Academy of Science, Leopoldina, a member of various international science associations, and a Principal Investigator several science awards and almost 40 successful research proposals. Although his sphere of research is broad and varied, ranging from social cognition, communication of language, stereotyping, lie detection, and affective influences to methodology and translational research in law, over the last decade his work has more and more concentrated on judgment and decision making, anchored in a cognitive-ecological perspective on adaptive cognition. Central to this research area is his work on meta-cognitive myopia, conceived as a major obstacle in the way of rational decision making and action.

Personal Website

Nancy K. Florida

Nancy Florida
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University of Michigan

Nancy K. Florida is a professor of Javanese and Islamic Studies at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is a historian of colonial Java and postcolonial Indonesia. Her current and future research concerns problems of history, politics, and Islam in the manuscript literature of colonial Java along with narratives of violence and trauma in postcolonial Indonesia.

2018-2019 Fellow: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature

Read more about Professor Florida here

Eric Ford

Eric Ford
Eric
Ford
FELLOW
Penn State University
Eric Ford is a professor in astrophysics and an expert on how planets are formed at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, at Penn State University.

He combines theoretical research with observation to improve understanding of our solar system and beyond. His research centers around planet formation, the dynamical evolution of planetary systems, & extrasolar planets. 

 

 

2018-2019 Fellow: Big Data and Planets

Read more about Dr. Ford here.

 

 

Edward (Ted) Fram

Edward Fram
Edward (Ted)
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FELLOW
Ben-Gurion University

Edward Fram is a professor and senior lecturer in the department of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His major area of interest is the history of Jewish culture in eastern Europe in the pre-modern age, with a focus on the history of Jewish law and how it was adapted to face new situations.

2018-2019 Fellow: Rethinking Early Modern Jewish Legal Culture 

Read more about Professor Fram here

Gad Freudenthal

Gad Freudenthal
Gad
Freudenthal
FELLOW
CNRS

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has written on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, mainly in the Middle Ages and in the eighteenth century, and has focused his research on Greek philosophies of matter. He is the editor of the journal Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Read more about Dr. Freudenthal here

Isaiah Gafni

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Isaiah
Gafni
INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jewish History and
Contemporary Jewry
Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Areas of Research
Jewish History in the
SecondTemple
Mishna and Talmudic Periods
Ancient Jewish Historiography
Center and Jewish Diaspora in
Antiquity
Residency:
1.9.2023 - 31.6.2024