MY CV

POSITIONS

2023 - Adjunct assistant professor at the George Washington University

2021- Assistant professor, Open University of Israel

2019-2021 Moore postdoctoral fellow at Caltech

2017-2019 Postdoctoral researcher at the George Washington University

2016-2017 Chateaubriand postdoctoral fellow at IAP

EDUCATION

2011-2016      Ph.D. Main subject: Astrophysics. Dissertation title: Radiation Processes in Gamma Ray Bursts.

                 University: Hebrew University

                  Supervisor: Prof. Tsvi Piran, Schwartzman university chair of at the Hebrew university.

2009- 2011      M.Sc Main subject: Physics. Research project: high energy emission from Gamma ray bursts.

                 University: Hebrew University

                  Supervisor: Prof. Tsvi Piran.

2006-2009 B.Sc in Physics and Mathematics.

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

co-PI of selected NASA ATP proposal: Decoding Fast Radio Bursts and their potential role as
cosmological probes, 2024
PI of selected ISF grant: Illuminating GRB jet structures and their implications, 2023
Recipient of equipment grant from ISF - Super computational resources for performing hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical simulations of relativistic astrophysical fluids, 2023
co-PI of selected NSF-BSF collaborative research grant "Crossing the Chasm: From Compact Object Mergers to Cosmic Fireworks", 2021
Recipient of Moore fellowship from Caltech, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara, 2019
Recipient of Chateaubriand fellowship from the French government, 2016
Recipient of award for best teaching assistant in Physics from the Hebrew University, 2016
Recipient of Rosenblum award for excellent research in Astrophysics, 2015
Received a teaching excellence award from the Hebrew University, 2015

RECENT COLLOQUIA AND INVITED TALKS

September 2023 - Colloquium speaker at NASA ASD, Goddard
October 2022 - Colloquium speaker at Purdue University's astrophysics department
April 2022 - Invited speaker at Universe Webinar "Long-term Periodicity in FRB Activity"
February 2022 - Invited speaker at UNAM astrophysics seminar
July 2021 – Invited speaker at the 16th Marcel Grossmann meeting, Italy
March 2021 - Invited gravity seminar speaker at the Perimeter institute, Canada
November 2020 - Colloquium speaker at the University of Athens
May 2019 – Invited talk at the Nanjing Gamma-Ray Burst physics conference in Nanjing, China.
April 2019 – Colloquium speaker at The George Washington University’s physics department.
October 2018 – Colloquium speaker at the California State University Sacramento (CSUS) physics department.
October 2018 – Wine & Cheese seminar speaker Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
June 2018 – Invited talk at the 3rd Panda symposium, Chengdu, China (cancelled due to illness).
March 2018 – Colloquium speaker at the University of Maryland at the Joint Space-Science Institute (Astrophysics department).