Laboratories to be displayed further down are from the following tracks: 

 


*Not Available* near a professor’s name means that they have already chosen an intern for the coming summer. 


 

 

Anatomy and Anthropology

No positions currently available

 

Biomedical Research

Prof. Uri Gophna

Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
Research Topic: Host-virus interactions in halophilic archaea

 

Prof. Karen Avraham

Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience / Dept. of Human Molecular Genetics &  Biochemistry
Research Topics:

 

Dr. Miri Danan-Gotthold

Faculty of Medical and Health Science
Research Topic: Single cell analysis of the hindbrain development
https://danan-gotthold-lab.sites.tau.ac.il/

 

Prof. Gali Prag

School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Research Topic: Mechanistic explanation for Autism and Angeman Syndrome mutations in the ubiquitin E3-ligase  UBE3A 
https://www.praglab.sites.tau.ac.il 

 

Prof. Illana Gozes

Medicine/Sagol School of Neuroscience/Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry
Research Topic: Autism and Alzheimer's disease
https://igozes.wixsite.com/website-1gozeslab-1

 

Prof. Fernando Patolsky

Chemistry and Materials Engineering
Topic of Research:  Bionanotechnology. Biosensors Development, Liquid Biopsy, Tissue Engineering

 

Prof. Chaim Pick

Faculty of Medicine
Research Topic: Behavior results of Traumatic Brain Injury

 

Professor Nir Ben-Tal

Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Biochemistry, Neurobiology & Biophysics
Research Topic: Computational structural biology

 

Uri Ben-David

Faculty of Medical Sciences, Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry
Research Topic: Our lab studies cancer genetics, focusing on an understudied trait of cancer—its abnormal number of chromosomes (aneuploidy). We apply experimental and computational approaches to studying the role(s) of aneuploidy in tumorigenesis and its cellular consequences, and we develop strategies to selectively target aneuploid cancer cells.

 

Health Professions Research

No positions currently available

 

Public Health 

No positions currently available

 

Bioinformatics and Computational Research

Prof. Tal Pupko 

The Shmunis School of Biomedical Research, Faculty of Life Sciences
Research Topics: Bioinformatics
https://www.tau.ac.il/~talp/
 

Engineering Research

Dr. Mark Shein-Idelson

School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Topics: 

 

Dr. Ben Maoz 

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Topic: Develop Organ-on-a-Chip technology to study the brain in health  and disease. We are focusing on personalized medicine, and developing new tools to study human physiology.
https://www.maozlab.com/ 

 

Dr. Avinoam Rabinovich

School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Topic: Modeling hydrogen-brine flow in porous media for hydrogen geological storage.
http://avinoamr.eng.tau.ac.il/

 

Prof. Yair Shokef

School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Topics:  Smart and living materials (from mechanical metamaterials, through statistical physics to mechanobiology).
https://shokef.tau.ac.il

 

Prof. Tal Carmon

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research topic: Optics and Photonics, Laser science
http://web2.eng.tau.ac.il/wtest/carmon1/index.php/publication/

 

Dr. Ines Zucker

School of Mechanical Engineering and Porter School of Environment and Earth Sciences
Research Topic: Nanobubble transport in porous media, Nanomaterials for water treatment
http://zuckerlab.tau.ac.il/

 

Dr. Tomer Markovich

School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Topic: Active Matter
https://tomermar.github.io/

 

Prof. Benny Applebaum

School of Electrical Engineering
Research Topic: Topics in Cryptography
https://www.bennyapplebaum.sites.tau.ac.il/

 

Dr. Lea Beilkin

School of Mechanical Engineering
Research Topics:

 

Dr. Nimrod Ginzberg

School of Electrical Engineering
Research Topic: RFIC, CMOS integrated RF and mm-Wave circuits and systems, digital RF, signal processing for wireless communications, SATCOM phased array transceivers.

 

Dr. Mor Kaspi

School of Industrial Engineering
Research Topic: Rule-Based Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Decision Making in Urban Transportation and Logistics Services
https://www.autolab.sites.tau.ac.il/

 

Dr. Gideon Segev

School of Electrical Engineering
Research Topic: Design of advanced water treatment systems
https://www.edlab.sites.tau.ac.il/

 

Prof. Tamir Bendory

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Topic: Model bias in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy
https://www.tau.ac.il/~bendory/

 

Prof. Gilad Yossifon

School of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Englineering
Research Topics:

 

Dr. Herman Haustein

School of Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Electronics cooling physics: Simulations of wake dynamics - from flow recovery to vortex rollup

 

Chemistry Research

No positions open at the moment

 

Biology Research

Dr. Noa Truskanov

School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences
Research Topic: Cultural transmission in animals - the mechanisms that support it, and its ecological and evolutionary implications. More specifically: We are studying a naturally occuring cultural tradition that emerged in black rat populations and involves a difficult to acquire extractive foraging skill. The research focuses on:

 

Dr. Gal Ribak

School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences
Research topic: The Biomechanics of Animal Locomotion Laboratory 
The lab studies flying and swimming in animals—from Aero/hydro-dynamics to biomechanics, physiology, and behavior. 
We use engineering tools (wind tunnels, fluid-force measurements, modeling, and simulations) as well as observations on living animals to better understand the natural world and to design advanced robotic systems and technological innovations.     

 

Biophysics & Physics

Prof. Yoram Dagan

School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Research topic: Quantum materials and superconductivity
https://yoramdagan.wordpress.com/

 

Dr. Liron Barak

Particle Physics 
Research Topic: Experimental particle physics, searching for new physics at the LHC, development of new algorithms and more.
https://en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il/profile/lironbarak1

 

Prof. Moshe Ben Shalom

School of Physics
Research Topic: Quantum transport in 2D materials
https://www.qlmgtau.com/

 

Prof. Yan Benhammou

School of Physics and Astromony
Research Topic: Sensor development and future accelerator detectors

 

Dr. Yonatan Israel

School of Physics 
Research Topic:  quantum imaging: developing measurements and microscopes that approach ultimate limits permitted by quantum mechanics

 

Neuroscience

Dr. William Saban

Sagol School of Neuroscience
Research topics:

 

Dr. Sagi Jaffe-Dax

School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience
Research Topics:

 

Dr. Gal Raz

School of Neuroscience and Medicine
Research Topic: A Gamified Virtual-Reality Brain-Computer Interface for Motor Rehabilitation
https://www.tau.ac.il/~galraz/

 

Prof. Uri Ashery

Sagol School of Neuroscience
Research Topics:

 

Psychology

Prof. Michal Kahn

School of Psychological Sciences
Research Topic: Studies on Sleep, Parenting, and Child Well-being

 

Mathematics

No positions currently available

 

Environmental Sciences

Dr. Alon Shepon

School of Environmental Studies and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
Research Topic: Food system in drylands. Seeking students with quantitative backgrounds to tackle research in pressing issues of food security and sustainability.
https://www.shepon.sites.tau.ac.il/

 

Zoology

Prof.Amiyaal Ilany

School of Zoology
Research Topic: Social networks and microbiome in wild animals
https://thehyrax.wixsite.com/ilanylab

 

Prof. Orr Spiegel

School of Zoology
Research Topic: Movement ecology of barn owls and their role as pest control agent using data science for filtering animal trajectories and estimating jackals population with camera traps.
https://orrspiegel.wixsite.com/orrspiegel