Ruth Feldman is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bar-Ilan University, with a joint appointment at the Child Study Center at Yale University. She is the director of the developmental affective neuroscience laboratory at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Sciences Center at BIU. Her research focuses on the biological basis of affiliative bonds, the development of parent-infant relationships, bio-behavioural processes of social reciprocity, and the effects of early risk on children's social-emotional growth.