Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD, Mentor: Prof. Benny Gerber (2001) 
  Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• MSc via direct PHD program (1997) 
  Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• BSc in Chemistry, cum laude (1994) 
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Current Positions

• Full Professor at The Institute of Biochemistry, Food and Nutrition

• Board of Directors Member, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2019 - )

• Board Member, Cannabinoid Research Multidisciplinary Center (2019 - )

Past Positions

• Vice Dean for Research (2017- 2021) 
  The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Associate Professor, tenured (2014- 2021 ) 
  Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition,
  The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Member of cohort 5 8400 health network 

• "Leadership in Academia" program  (2018-2019)

• Director of Biochemistry and Food Science BSc study program (2014-2017) 
  Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Visiting scholar at UCSF, hosted by Prof. Brian Shoichet (2015 summer sabbatical)

• Director of MSc study program in Biochemistry and Food Science (2014-2016) 
  The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Senior Lecturer (2009-2014) 
  The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Lecturer (2007-2009) 
  The Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Post-doctoral fellow in Computational Biomedicine (2003-2007) 
  Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY, US; Mentor: Prof. Harel Weinstein

• Bioinformatics and Molecular Modeling Group Leader (2000-2003) 
  Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Jerusalem, Israel

 

Teaching

•  Introduction to Bioinformatics and Structural Biochemistry (71437)

•  Methodology of Sensory Food Evaluation (71451)

•  Laboratory in Sensory Food Evaluation (71450)

•  Selected Topics in Structure And Function of GPCR- 71136

 

Distinctions and Awards

• Vigevani Visiting Professor to Italy (2017-2018)

• Women’s League for Israel Senior Lectureship in Nutrition (since 2011)

• Krill Prize for Excellence in Science from the Wolf Foundation (2010)

• Fritz Haber research award (1999)

• BSc honorary award (1993)

• DAAD scholarship (1992)

• Faculty of science dean`s list (1991)

• Elwing award for excellence in analytical chemistry (1991)

 

Recent international conferences

• Keynote "Bitter and sweet molecules and receptors: insights from integrating modeling and experiment" 
  European Chemosensory Research Organization (ECRO) in Berlin, Germany (2022)

• "The Taste of Drugs and Food - Learning with Big (and Small) Data" Computational Chemistry GRC, Spain (2022)

• “Predicting and modulating bitterness” Industry Symposium at ACHEMS meeting (2022 - Florida US, hybrid)

• Keynote “Taste receptors and their ligands” First Transatlantic ECI conference (2021 - virtual)

• i-GPCRnet consortium on ‘G protein-coupled receptors – from physiology to drugs’ (2021 - virtual)

• “Taste, drugs and toxicity”, FISEB/Ilanit – invited talk in Drug Discovery session, Eilat, Israel (2020)

• “Applying data science methods to taste: what have we learned and challenges ahead”
  International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT)  (2020)

• 34th Bitter or not? Predicting and monitoring taste in health and disease EFFoST 2020 /

• “Taste and nutrition, with a little help from big data” Future of Health, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019)

• Pangborn Sensory Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland (2019)

• ECRO Wurzburg, Germany (2018)

• Dechema BIOFLAVOUR Biotechnology of Flavours, Frankfurt, Germany (2018)

• Weurman Flavour Research Symposium, Graz, Austria (2017)

• ECRO meeting, Cambridge, UK (2017)

• Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium, Rhode Island, USA (2017)

• GLISTEN COST CM1027, Prague, Czech Republic, invited (2016)

• ECRO meeting, Athens, Greece, invited (2016)

• EupFI Lisbon, Portugal, invited (2016)

• EuroQSAR, Verona, Italy, Keynote (2016)

• ISQPB President’s meeting, Bergen, Norway, Keynote, declined (2016)

• ACHEMS annual meeting, Florida, US, invited (2015)

• 3DSig Boston, US, Keynote (2014)

• Nauta GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, invited (2013)

• Cecam workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, invited (2012)

• ISQPB President’s meeting, Cetraro, Italy, invited (2010)

 

Academic Activities

• Editorial board member, Chemical Senses, OUP (2020-)

• Advisory board member for ScienceAbroad (2017- )

• Editorial Advisory Board Member (2015-2017) 
  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

• Editorial Board Member (2014- ) 
  Scientific Reports, Nature publishing group

• SAB member for international PhD school (Bavaria)

• Academic chair of Food Innovation Forum, Israel (2016- )

• Member of Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics (2012- )

• Member of Jerusalem Brain Community (2016- )

• Management committee member and WG leader in COST ACTION CM1027 (GLISTEN) (2013- )

• Management committee substitute member in COST ACTION CA15135 (Mu.Ta.Lig) (2016- )