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Scholars

Each year the Institute hosts approximately 40 academics as members of Research Groups. These scholars constitute the vanguard in their various disciplines, coming from a wide range of fields and diverse backgrounds, from Israel and abroad. Free of their normal teaching obligations and administrative duties, their collaborative research at the IIAS enables them to engage in joint research projects. With their fellowship at the Institute as the launching-pad for long-term interaction, the Institute contributes to the interchange of knowledge and the vitality of academic life in Israel and throughout the world.

View the 2022-2023 Directory here

 

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Jessica Goldberg

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University of California

Prof. Jessica Goldberg studies the medieval history of the Mediterranean basin, Christian Europe, and the Islamic world, specializing in economic and legal institutions and culture.

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Geneviève Helleringer

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Oxford University - Essec Business School

Prof. Geneviève Helleringer is a member of the Law Faculty and a research fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.  She is also an Law Professor at Essec Business School and an appointed Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). 

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Adi Libson

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Bar-Ilan University
Adi Libson is a lecturer in the Law Faculty of Bar-Ilan University. He earned both his BA in the PPE (Philosophy, Political Science and Economics) program and his LLB from the Hebrew University. He received his LLM from the NYU Law School and his PhD from Bar-Ilan University.
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Jianxiong Ma

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Moshe Coll

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

 

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Jennifer Davis

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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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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

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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.

 

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Ofer Gal

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University of Sydney
Ofer Gal is a professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His research interests are the history and philosophy of science.
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Simha Goldin

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
Tel Aviv University

Professor Simha Goldin is the Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. His area of research is medieval Jewish history.

 

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Ian Hardy

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University of Helsinki
Ian Hardy is the Professor of Agricultural Entomology in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Helsinki. His research interests are population biology, agri-ecology, and evolutionary ecology.
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George Heimpel

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University of Minnesota
George Heimpel is a professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are entomology, ecology, conservation biology, parasitoid biology, and biological control.
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Tamar Keasar

FELLOW
University of Haifa
Tamar Keasar is an associate professor in the Department of Biology and the Environment at the University of Haifa. Her research interests are insect ecology, pollination biology, and parasitoid-host interactions.
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Angela Kinney

FELLOW
University of Vienna
Angela is a researcher in the Institute of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Vienna.
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Maria Kravchyk

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
University of Odessa
Maria Kravchyk was an associate professor in the field of philosophy and culture at the International Humanitarian University in Odessa, and is currently in Israel. 
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Asaf Sadeh

FELLOW
Newe Ya'ar Research Center, ARO
Asaf Sadeh is a senior researcher in the Department of Natural Resources at Newe Ya'ar Research Center. His research interests are agroecology, predator-prey interactions, and disease ecology.
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Michal Segoli

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Ben-Gurion University
Michal Segoli is a senior lecturer in the Department of Desert Ecology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests are: insect behavioral and evolutionary ecology; and conservation biological control.
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Elizabeth Swann

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University of Durham
Lizzie Swann is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at Durham University.
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Daniella Talmon-Heller

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Ben-Gurion University
Daniella is a professor in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests are the history of the Middle East in the Medieval period.
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Avishalom Tor

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
University of Notre Dame

Professor Avishalom Tor is a Professor of Law and Director of the Research Program on Law and Market Behavior at Notre Dame Law School.

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Deborah Tor

FELLOW
University of Notre Dame
Deborah Tor is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interest is medieval Islamic history.
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Saskya van Nouhuys

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Cornell University
Saskya van Nouhuys is an adjunct associate professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Cornell University. Her research interests are: population and community ecology; and insect behaviour.
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Eric Wajnberg

FELLOW
INRA
Eric Wajnberg is the Head of Research at SPE, INRAE. His research interests are: insect ecology, statistics, and modeling.
Anastasiia Zinevych

Anastasiia Zinevych

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
Odessa National Economic University

Anastasiia Zinevych has an MS in Psychology (2013) and a PhD in Philosophy (2019). Her PhD research was conducted (2015-2019) and defended in the H. Skovoroda Institute of philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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Edward Breuer

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Ronit Kessel

Ronit Kessel

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

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Limor Raviv

FELLOW
Max Planck Institute and University of Glasgow

Rakefet Ackerman

Rakefet Ackerman
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FELLOW
Technion

Prof. Ackerman’s research is based on the metacognitive approach, by which subjective assessment of knowledge guides the activities people perform for achieving their goals. Understanding the factors that affect the reliability of this subjective knowledge assessment and the cases that are particularly prone to biases offers a foundation for developing effective work environments and techniques. In her recent research, she deals with the metacognitive processes underlying the regulation of mental effort while facing reasoning and problem-solving challenges, by combining cognitive-psychology experiments and real-life challenges.

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Marc Brettler

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INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
Duke University

 

Marc Brettler is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University, and Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies emeritus at Brandeis University. His research centers on several areas: the use of religious metaphors in the Hebrew Bible (God is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor, 1989), the nature of biblical historical texts as "literary" texts (The Creation of History in Ancient Israel, 1995; The Book of Judges, 2002), and gender and the Bible. He co-edited The Jewish Annotated New Testament (2011) and The New Oxford Annotated Bible (2001, revised 2010), co-authored The Bible and the Believer (2012; paperback 2015), wrote Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew (2002) and co-edited The Jewish Study Bible (2004; second edition 2014), which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award. How to Read the Bible was published by the Jewish Publication Society in fall 2005, and in paperback as How to Read the Jewish Bible by Oxford University Press in 2007. His articles may be found at https://duke.academia.edu/MarcBrettler.

Edward Breuer

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INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Prof. Edward Breuer is a native of Montreal Canada and received his Ph.D. from Harvard; he currently teaches at the Hebrew University. Breuer writes about the history of biblical scholarship in the modern era, and is the co-author with Chanan Gafni of “Jewish Biblical Scholarship between Tradition and Innovation” and, with David Sorkin, Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings (Yale, 2018).

Klaus Fiedler

Klaus Fiedler
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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.

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Simon Handley

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Macquarie University

Professor Handley’s research focuses on the psychology of reasoning and the interplay between logic and beliefs in rational judgment. Whilst on the one hand, people regularly achieve goals that depend upon adherence to logical principles and rational thought, they simultaneously often fail to solve even the simplest of cognitive puzzles, relying instead on heuristics that draw upon beliefs or similar associative processes. In his most recent research, Professor Handley has developed a range of experimental techniques that appear to paint a more optimistic picture of human judgment, one in which reasoners show an intuitive appreciation of logical structure. His work suggests that people are influenced by the logical validity of arguments even in the absence of explicit instruction to attend to these features. A key challenge remains in identifying the processes the underpin intuitive logic and mapping the extent to which reasoners show awareness of this influence on their thinking.

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Ronit Kessel

Ronit Kessel
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INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

The combination of experimental petrology and thermodynamic modeling provides powerful insights into the igneous and metamorphic processes by which Earth and other planets evolved.  My research involves the development of experimental techniques together with modeling of the experimental data to constrain the nature of both terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments through the study of synthetic analogs. 

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Ariane Sadjed

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Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Isaiah Gafni

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Anna Zapalec

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
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Yfaat Weiss

INDIVIDUAL FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem