Zuckerman Scholars Program/Meet the New Cohort

Meet the New Cohort

Announcing the new Zuckerman 2020-2021 cohort.

The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program is proud to welcome its fifth cohort of scholars for the 2020-2021 academic year. This impressive group, 27 leaders in their respective STEM fields from the US and Israel, will focus on research, make new discoveries and lead the way — from genetics to quantum physics, deep learning to neuroscience.

We are proud of our continuing effort to advance the role of women in STEM: nearly 50% of the 2020-21 cohort are women. Since the start of the program in 2016, we have welcomed 151 Zuckerman scholars from the US, Israel and Canada. As the program grows, our scholars continue to lead and achieve, gaining new insights in research, making significant discoveries, publishing in high impact journals, receiving grants, awards and patents.The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program would not be a success without the help of its partners: Israel’s Council for Higher Education, and many universities in the US and Israel. We are grateful to the Selection Committee, who guides the application process, encourages diversity and helps govern the selection of our scholars. Together, our partners and scholars are implementing Mort Zuckerman’s vision.

Introducing the 2020-2021 Zuckerman Scholars and their host institutions:

Zuckerman Faculty Scholars

Moran Dvela-Levitt to Bar Ilan University
Yossi Weizmann to Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Shani Stern to University of Haifa
Neta Shlezinger to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arielle Fischer to Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Alon Ron to Tel Aviv University
Yael Kiro to Weizmann Institute of Science

Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholars

Chenglin Fan to Bar-Ilan University
Ella Jewison to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Andre Pellerin to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Julie Shapiro to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Silas Dean to University of Haifa
Ben Strauber to University of Haifa
Lam Pham to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Adlai Katzenberg to Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
David Weinreich to Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tyler Kutz to Tel Aviv University
Michael Roysdon to Tel Aviv University
Michelle Talal to Tel Aviv University
Peter Crockford to Weizmann Institute of Science
Brian Ross to Weizmann Institute of Science

Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholars

Aviad Levis to Caltech
Koral Goltseker to Columbia
Dana Rubi Levy to Harvard
Shdema Hayut to MIT
Zohar Arnon to NYU
Ayelet Uzan to Princeton
Evgeniy Boyko to Princeton and Purdue
Shiran Bar to Stanford
Michael Kalyuzhny to University of Michigan
Ido Sagi to Whitehead Institute

Zuckerman-CHE Israeli Women Postdoctoral Program

Natalie Fardian-Melamed to Columbia University
Or Szekely to Duke University
Alexandra Shtein to Harvard
Anat Rotstein to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rachel Gur-Arie to Johns Hopkins University
Sonya Tiomkin to Lehigh University
Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein to MIT
Tamar Regev to MIT
Maayan Pour to NYU
Biana Bernshtein to Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Maya Yablonski to Stanford University
Yael Tsarfati to Stanford University and UC Berkeley
Avia Raviv Moshe to Stony Brook University
Danielle Gutman to The Wistar Institute
Lilach Gorodetski to UC San Diego
Rachel Blau to UC San Diego
Leehe Peled-Avron to UC San Francisco
Shira Landau to University of Toronto, Canada

Our Community Continues to Grow!
Our US-Israel STEM community has experienced incredible growth in the past five years. From the tens of researchers who participated at the start of the program in 2016, the Zuckerman STEM program now includes hundreds of researchers in Israel, the US and Canada who are sustaining a productive cycle of academic exchange. As we move forward, the Zuckerman STEM community continues to expand in ways that will impact generations of scientists and strengthen the bonds between the two countries.