The Azrieli Fellows Program is delighted to share the latest accomplishments of its Fellows across the Graduate Studies, International Postdoctoral, and Early Career Faculty tracks. These achievements—including faculty appointments, promotions, prestigious postdoctoral positions, academic awards, and leadership roles in industry—highlight the exceptional calibre of our Fellows and their growing impact within academia and beyond. We congratulate them warmly and wish them continued success in their professional journeys.
New Faculty Appointments
Andrea Gondos (2014–2015 International Postdoctoral Fellow) – Appointed to a tenure-track professorship at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. She holds the endowed Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Professorship in Jewish Thought.
María del Carmen Marín Pérez (2022–2023 International Postdoctoral Fellow) – Opened an independent lab in the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Jaén, Spain.
Sarah Yona Zweig (2022–2023 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Appointed Lecturer on Global Classical Literature at Ashoka University, New Delhi.
Saskia Demulder (2023–2024 International Postdoctoral Fellow) – Appointed to a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Mathematics at CUNEF Universidad, Madrid, beginning September 2025.
Geneviève Allaire-Duquette (2017–2018 International Postdoctoral Fellow) – Appointed Associate Professor at Université de Montréal, effective August 1, 2025.
Postdoctoral Positions
Shiri Ron (2022–2023 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Recipient of the Schmidt Israeli Women’s Postdoctoral Award.
Anna Uzonyi (2022–2023 Graduate Studies Fellow)– Awarded an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supports international mobility for outstanding postdoctoral researchers for up to two years.
Gal Bitton (2022–2023 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Appointed Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University, beginning fall 2025.
Shahar Fraenkel (2022–2023 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Awarded a postdoctoral position at the Technical University of Munich, starting October 2025.
Boglárka Nyúl (2023–2024 International Postdoctoral Fellow) – Awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (European Fellowship) under Horizon Europe at Örebro University in Sweden on her project No Means No, which examines how sexual violence is downplayed in everyday and online contexts, and develops interventions to improve awareness, reduce victim-blaming, and support prevention.
Major Grants
Dana Azani (2024-2025 Graduate Studies Fellow) won the 2025 Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy.
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal (2019-2020 Early Career Faculty Fellow) received the Sieratzki Prize for Advanced Neuroscience (2024).
Sagi Ben-Ami (2020-2021 Early Career Faculty Fellow) received a VATAT grant for a new observatory at Neot Semadar in the Negev.
Uri Ben-David (2019-2020 Faculty Early Career Fellow) is the recipient of the 2025 Schmidt Science Polymath Award.
Yoav Goldstein (2023–2025 Graduate Studies Fellow) received the Alix De Rothschild Fellowship Program for Doctoral Students in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Leore Heim (2018-2019 Graduate Studies Fellow) received the Teva BioInnovators Fellowship (2024-2025).
Deborah Marciano (2015–2016 Graduate Studies Fellow) is the recipient of the Golda Meir Fellowship.
Mor Nitzan (2012-2013 Graduate Studies Fellow) received the EMBO Young Investigator Award.
Boglárka Nyúl (2023-2024 International Postdoctoral Fellow) was awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship.
Benjamin Palmer (2019-2020) is a 2025 Laureate of the Prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel.
Roni Porat (2020-2021 Faculty Early Career Fellow) is the HFG Distinguished Scholar Award winner.
Ziv Shulman (2015-2016 Faculty Early Career Fellow) is the recipient of the Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research. (2025).
Leadership Positions in Industry
Idan Frumkin (2014-2015 Graduate Studies Fellow and 2024–2025 Early Career Faculty Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting early-career research on orphan genes and species-specific adaptations.
Idan Frumkin was also awarded an ERC Grant for the project Orphan Genes as Drivers of Evolutionary Innovation in Microbial and Bacteriophage Systems.
Shahar Dery (2018–2019 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting research on structural dynamics and catalytic activity at the level of a single bimetallic particle (Bar-Ilan University).
Shahar Carmeli (2024–2025 Early Career Faculty Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting early-career research on alternating spectral loops and their units (Weizmann Institute of Science).
Oded Padon (2024–2025 Early Career Faculty Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting early-career research on foundational techniques for automated proof and verification (Weizmann Institute of Science).
Keren Yirmiya (2017–2018 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting early-career research on psychological, biological, and intergenerational mechanisms in the development of complex PTSD among adolescents exposed to war events (Ben-Gurion University).
Paul Sharp (2024–2025 Early Career Faculty Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting early-career research on the computational mechanisms of metacontrol planning (Bar-Ilan University).
Yinon Bar-On (2018–2019 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), supporting early-career research on quantifying ecosystem processes driving the global terrestrial carbon sink (Weizmann Institute of Science).
Boaz Hameri (2015–2016 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Awarded an ERC Grant at Tel Aviv University for the project Contextualizing Psychological Intergroup Interventions to Remedy Intergroup Relations.
Anat Arzi (2022–2023 Early Career Faculty Fellow) – Awarded an ERC Grant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the project Mapping the Dynamics of Consciousness: A Unified Account of Variability in Responsiveness Across the Spectrum of Consciousness in Health and Disease.
Shifra Lansky (2015–2016 Graduate Studies Fellow) – Awarded an ERC Grant at the Weizmann Institute of Science for the project Oligomeric Plasticity Gating Mechanisms in Ion Channels.
