CURRENT POSITION

Professor, Tel Aviv University

(Michael Bruno Memorial Award, Mifal Hapais Michael Landau Prize for the Sciences and Research,

Rector's outstanding lecturer award, Adams Super Center for Brain Studies Distinguished Mentor Award)

Elected Member, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Head of the Language and Brain Lab, Tel-Aviv University

Head of the Lieselotte Adler Lab for Research in Child Development, Tel-Aviv University

Branco Weiss Chair for Research in Child Development and Education

Head of MiLa: The Cukier-Goldstein-Goren Center for Mind, Cognition, and Language

ACADEMIC DEGREES

M.A., Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, 1994
Summa cum laude.

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, 1999

With distinction.

Thesis title: Functional categories in agrammatic production: A cross-linguistic study.

EDUCATION

1999-2000	Post doc, University of California, San Diego, Psychology Department and San Diego State University, Department of Communicative Disorders
1995-1998	Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, Cognitive Psychology
1996	Visitor at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1993-1994	M.A. Tel Aviv University, Cognitive Psychology
1990-1994	Tel Aviv University, Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students

EXPERIENCE AND POSITIONS

2010-present	Full Professor, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
2008-2020	Head of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Excellent Students, Tel-Aviv University
2017-present	Head of MiLa, The Cukier-Goldstein-Goren Center for Mind, Cognition, and Language, Tel-Aviv University
2015-2020	Partner Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Australia
Fall 2016	Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
2011-2015	Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Australia
2006- 2010	Associate professor, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
2004- 2006	Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
2000- 2003	Lecturer, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
2003- present	Adjunct faculty, PhD program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, The City University of New York, USA
Summer 2000	Guest professor at Potsdam University, Germany
1999-2000	Visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Psychology Department; Adjunct faculty at San Diego State University, California, Department of Communicative Disorders.
1997-1998	Instructor, Cognitive Psychology. The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
1995-1996	Instructor, Cognitive Psychology. The Open University of Israel
1994	Instructor, Introduction to Psychology. External Studies Unit, Tel Aviv University

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Editor, Language and Brain

Editorial Board, Applied Psycholinguistics

Editorial Board, Biolinguistics

Special Issue Editor, Lingua

Special Issue Editor, Cortex

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2022-2023	TCCP grant on Language in the post-Covid-19 brain
2022-2023	MILA grant on the role of the aslant tract in syntactic structure building: A study of aslant tract stimulation in awake surgery and pre-operative DTI (with Zvi Ram and Rachel Grossmann)
2022-2023	MILA grant on Changes in Brain Activity Following Israeli Sign Language Learning (with Ido Tavor)
2022-2023	Healthy Longevity Research Center, research grant.
2022-2023	Israel Cancer Association research grant. Language preservation during glioma awake craniotomy: Continuous dynamic stimulation technique to assess the language pathways
2021-2022	MILA grant on language in white matter tracts
2021-2022	MILA grant on syntactic working memory
2020-2021	Consolidated Anti-Aging Foundation (CAAF) grant on Language in Parkinson’s Disease
2019-2021	The Waterloo Foundation research grant on Rolandic Epilepsy
2019-2020	MILA grant on sentence fragment answers in aphasia
2019-2020	MILA grant on sentence fragment answers in aphasia
2016-2020	Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) research grant on phonological representations of working memory
2016-2020	Horizons 2020 European Commission –SIGN-HUB - grant on sign languages
2014-2018	ISF - Israel Science Foundation research grant on syntax in hearing impairment
2011-2014	GIF – German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development research grant on bilingualism and language impairment
2012-2015	BSF - Binational Science Foundation research grant on Brain systems for letter localization in reading
2006-2010	ISF - Israel Science Foundation research grant on acquired and developmental peripheral dyslexias in Hebrew: Characteristics and directions for treatment
2003-2005	The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel research grant on working memory and Broca’s area
2005	Adams Super Center for Brain Studies research grant in dyslexia
2003	Adams Super Center for Brain Studies research grant in developmental language disorders
2003	Edersheim - Levi - Gitter Institute and Adams Super Center For Brain Studies Research Grant in fMRI
2002-2005	Joint German-Israeli Research Program grant (BMBF-MOS)
2000-2003	Alon fellowship, Israel Council for Higher Education.
1999-2000	Post Doctoral fellowship, Tel Aviv University.
1997-1998	Writing fellowship, Israel Foundations Trustees.
1995-1997	Ph.D. fellowship, Tel Aviv University.
1993-1995	Graduate fellowship, Tel Aviv University.
1990-1994	Study fellowship, Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students.

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