Tamar Dayan is a professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University. She earned her PhD in Zoology from Tel Aviv University in 1989, and held postdoc positions at Florida State University and Harvard University, as well as academic positions at Haifa University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, before joining the Tel Aviv University faculty in 1994. Prof. Dayan's research lab leads multidisciplinary research projects targeting various aspects of conservation biology and ecology. They employ tools from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. economics, mathematics, sociology) in conjunction with traditional zoological and ecological methods.