The Joan and Jaime Constantiner Institute travel fellowship (2023)
Excellent Research Student Prize (2023), Edmond J. Safra Center
Excellence Scholarship (2022), Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
Ph.D. candidate fellowship (2022), Tel Aviv University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics
Excellence Scholarship (2021), Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
Best poster award – Hellenic Bioinformatics 12 (2019): "Illuminating the prokaryotic RNA Virome using metatranscriptomic analyses"
Best poster award – Halophiles 2019 (International Society of Salt Lake Research): "Microbial interactions in the Dead Sea as reflected by enrichment cultures: the curious case of Nanohaloarchaea"
Past Scientific and Educational roles
Co-founding organizer, "RdRp Summit – Interoperability in RNA virus discovery" (satellite workshop to ViBioM).
Member, European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), since 2023
Reviewer in: PeerJ, Virus Evolution, Current Opinion in Virology (COVIRO).
Tutor for undergraduate project students from the Safra program for first degree in Bioinformatics.
Education
2019 – 2024 Ph.D., Tel Aviv University – Fast Track Ph.D. Program for Outstanding Students (transferred from M.Sc. track); Advisor: Prof. Uri Gophna
2018 – 2019: M.Sc., Tel Aviv University – Microbiology; Advisor: Prof. Uri Gophna
2013 – 2017: B.Sc., Tel Aviv University – Biology
Employment
2025 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Viral Genomics Group, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2024: Associate Data Scientist, Viral Genomics Group, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2017 – 2018: Research Assistant, Prof. Uri Gophna's lab
2013 – 2015: Research Assistant, Prof. Ehud Gazit's research group