Education

2004-2006: Postdoc - University of California, Berkeley

Dept. of Mathematics . Advisor: Prof. L. Pachter

Dept. of Computer Science . Advisor: Prof. S. Rao.

2000-2004: Ph.D. - Technion , Israel.

Dept. of Computer Science. Advisor: Prof. B. Chor. Thesis Title: Computational Issues in Phylogenetic Reconstruction: Analytic Maximum Likelihood Solutions, and Convex Recoloring.

1994-1997: M.Sc. - Technion , Israel.

Dept. of Computer Science. Advisor: Prof. S. Moran . Thesis Title: Simple and Efficient Network Decomposition and Synchronization.

1986-1991: B.A. - Bar Ilan University, Israel.

dept. of Computer Science,
dept. of Economics.

Employment and Positions

9-10/2011: Visiting Scientist - Mathematical and Computational Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics at IPAM, UC Los Angeles.

7-8/2010: Visiting Scientist - Eugene Koonin's Evolutionary Genomics Group at NCBI, NIH.

9/2009: Visiting Scientist - Nick Goldman's Evolutionary Biology Group at EBI

7-8/2009: Visiting Scientist - Eugene Koonin's Evolutionary Genomics Group at NCBI, NIH.

2008-... : Senior Lecturer - Department of Evolutionary & Environmental Biology at the University of Haifa. Head of the Bioinformatics program.

2006-... : Senior Researcher - Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa

2006-2007 : Senior Lecturer - Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Netanya College.