I completed my undergraduate degree in 2004 at the University of Cambridge, UK, studying the Natural Sciences, specialising in Biochemistry. My interests lie in the field of cancer biology: mainly control of the cell cycle progression and DNA damage repair mechanisms. After my graduation I joined Prof. Moshe Oren’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel as a visiting student for a year. I studied mechanisms of transcriptional regulation that are exerted by the tumour suppressor protein p53. 

I grew up in Israel, near Tel Aviv. At the age of eighteen I joined the teaching department of the Israeli Defence Forces for a mandatory two year service. I served as a guide at the Ein Gedi Field Study Centre, located in a beautiful nature reserve at the Judeah Desert, leading groups of high school kids around the reserve.  

In my free time I am interested in hiking, scuba diving, reading and music.