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Meet the Cohort

The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program is proud to welcome its ninth cohort of scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year.

This impressive group, 23 leaders in their respective STEM fields from the US, Canada and Israel, will focus on research, make new discoveries, advance their careers and create a cycle of excellence between the US, Canada and Israel.

We are grateful to the Selection Committee, who guides the application process, encourages diversity and helps govern the selection of our scholars. The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program is grateful for the strategic partnership with Israel’s Council for Higher Education, and many universities in the US and Israel.

Zuckerman Faculty Scholars

The Zuckerman Faculty Scholars program funds leading Israeli researchers and supports the purchase and construction of laboratories and specialized equipment. The program provides vital resources to Israeli universities, allowing them to compete with top North American institutions for the most promising candidates.

UNIVERSITY

FROM

Liron David

Ben-Gurion University

Harvard

Angelica Elkan

Tel Aviv University

University of Houston, TX

Maya Maor-Nof

Technion

Stanford University

Sivan Pearl-Mizrahi

Hebrew University

MIT

Yishay Pinto

Bar-Ilan University

Stanford University

Lidor Shaar-Moshe

University of Haifa

University of California

Yaniv Shlosberg

Ariel University

University of California Santa Barbara

Gal Vardi

Weizmann Institute

Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago

Dar Weiss

Tel Aviv University

Yale University

Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholars

The Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholars Program attracts high-achieving postdoctoral scholars from premier universities in the United States and Canada to do research at one of eight Israeli universities. Once they complete their research, many Zuckerman postdocs are expected to accept faculty positions at top North American universities, weaving a network of academic collaboration and goodwill that will greatly benefit US-Israeli scientific cooperation.

UNIVERSITY

FROM

Daniel Amir

Technion

Cornell

Bernoulli Andilab

Ariel University

Toronto Metropolitan University

Daniel B. K. Chu

Tel Aviv University

MIT

Andrew Denniston

Tel Aviv University

MIT

Shoshana Ginsburg

Technion

The Ohio State University

Claudèle Lemay-St-Denis

University of Haifa

Université de Montréal

Anubhav Mathur

Tel Aviv University

Johns Hopkins University

David Padilla-Garza

Hebrew University

IST Austria

Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholars

The Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholars Program provides additional support for up to two years to Israeli PhD graduates who have been accepted to a postdoctoral program with a stipend at an American university. Candidates are encouraged to apply to a university that offers more specialized training than they would find in Israel. Upon completion of the program, scholars are expected to return to the Israeli campuses from which they earned their doctorates and gain a faculty position at Israeli Universities.

UNIVERSITY

FROM

Tal Adi

University of Southern California

Ben-Gurion University

Dana Binyamin

Stanford

Bar-Ilan University

Sapir Bitton

MIT

Technion

Ido Irani

Princeton

Weizmann Institute

Noam Razin

Princeton

Tel Aviv University

Gal Vishne

Columbia University

Hebrew University

Our Community Continues to Grow!
Our US-Israel STEM community has experienced incredible growth in the past eight 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.