We are thrilled to announce that seven Azrieli Fellows have been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, marking an incredible achievement for our community. These grants are awarded to top early-career researchers with the potential to lead pioneering projects and make major breakthroughs in their fields.
This remarkable accomplishment highlights the excellence within the Azrieli Fellows Program. We are confident that their groundbreaking work will continue to make an impact and lead to future successes.
- Yonatan Belinkov of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Early Career Faculty, 2020-2021) for his project on controlling large language models.
- Karma Ben Johanan of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Early Career Faculty, 2022-2023) for her groundbreaking research on Christosemitism and Christian anti-antisemitism.
- Shany Danieli of Tel Aviv University (Early Career Faculty, 2024-2025) for her study of low-mass galaxies beyond the Local Group, unveiling the hidden universe.
- Arseny Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University (Early Career Faculty, 2021-2022) for his exploration of memory formation mechanisms in cortical networks during learning.
- Moran Frenkel-Pinter of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Early Career Faculty, 2021-2022) for her work on the sweet origins of life and today’s biochemistry.
- Aldema Sas-Chen of Tel Aviv University (Early Career Faculty, 2021-2022) for her investigation into ribosome heterogeneity and its role in metastasis.
- Mark Shusterman of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Graduate Studies, 2016-2017) for his innovative contributions to function fields, analytic number theory, and arithmetic statistics.
