Anat Horowitz Harel

Anat Horowitz Harel is an architect and MA student in the Azrieli School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Talia Margalith.

Her research aspires to increase the participation of children in city planning processes, thus grounding their right to the city.

Anat looks at the case of Israel from an international lens, and her ensuing comparative research contributes to the scholarly literature in Hebrew about children’s right to cities. Her research uses qualitative methods including in-depth interviews with professionals in the field, assessments of fieldwork conducted by various initiatives looking to change children’s right to the city, and analyses of materials and products from relevant processes. Anat hopes that her research will help raise the awareness of Israeli planners and architects regarding the perspective of children on the use of the city and establish operative policy directions to promote built environment education (BEE) for children, thus deepening children’s knowledge of the urban environment.

Anat was born in Jerusalem and currently lives in Ramat Gan with her spouse and two daughters. She received her BArch in architecture and town planning from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Over the last 15 years, she has engaged in planning policy, strategic planning, and environmental planning in civil society organizations and now works as an expert in the field of sustainable public space at the Israeli Green Building Council. As part of her ongoing voluntary work, Anat represents the Israel Association of Architects and Urban Planners in the UIA Architecture and Children Work Program. In her free time, Anat likes to wander around cities in Israel and throughout the world.

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Amit Manor Armon

Amit Manor Armon is a PhD student in the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Charles Diesendruck.

Amit’s research focuses on a new methodology for the design and synthesis of kinetically stable quaternary ammonium (QA) salts for renewable energy applications.

Electrochemical devices, such as fuel cells and flow batteries, are seen as game- changing opportunities for the storage and conversion of green energy. QA are embedded in anion exchange membranes which are, in terms of lifetime, the limiting component in these devices. By modelling different degradation pathways and varying electronic and steric parameters, Amit aims to identify the QA weak spots, synthesize new “hits,” and test their stability experimentally. Her unique approach of modelling prior to synthesis will allow for better understanding of the structure–property relationships in bottom-up QA design, hopefully promoting their implementation in the green energy field.

Amit was born and raised in Haifa, where she currently lives with her husband and daughter. Her academic path started in high school when she enrolled in the Technion Archimedes chemistry program. After five years of military service as, mostly, an intelligence officer, she returned to the academic world, completing her BSc in chemistry and art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also pursued her MSc in chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Ori Gidron. In her free time, Amit enjoys hiking with her family and horseback riding.

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Alla Marchenko

Dr. Alla Marchenko is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Nurit Stadler.

Her area of research is Hasidic pilgrimage in contemporary Ukraine, specifically the growing female presence at the Hasidic shrines.

She surfaces the role of women in religious communities and activities and the possibility of belonging to a traditional religious community, on the one hand, and taking an active social position, on the other. Alla hopes that her research will have positive impact on the development of cross-cultural bridges between local communities and international visitors to the Hasidic shrines in Ukraine.

Alla was born in Uman, Ukraine, which, as the most visited Hasidic shrine in Europe, shaped her curiosity on the topic. After obtaining a BA, an MA, and a Candidate of Sciences in sociology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Alla moved to Warsaw. She completed her PhD in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Sławomir Kapralski, focusing on the effects of Hasidic pilgrimages on the local frames of memory in Polish and Ukrainian towns. She has also taken part in numerous educational and research projects aimed at making local cultural heritage visible, with an emphasis on Jewish heritage (e.g., the EU project ReHerit – Common Responsibility for Common Heritage and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews). In addition to research, Alla likes exploring museums and participating in guided tours connected with local history. She enjoys sports, especially yoga and Pilates, and writing poems, short stories, and reviews of books and places she has visited.

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Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier

Dr. Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Dr. David Mark Kovacs.

His work focuses on the metaphysics of explanation and meta-ethics and their intersection.

In meta-ethics, Alexios is interested in moral naturalism, normative explanation, and the nature of moral principles; more broadly, he also researches metaphysical grounding and the metaphysics of non-causal explanation. In his current research, he plans to explore a neo- Humean theory on the metaphysical foundations of pure moral principles (such as the principle of utility or the Kantian categorical imperative).

Alexios was born in Athens, Greece. He completed his BA and MA in the history and philosophy of science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds where, under the supervision of Prof. Pekka Väyrynen and Dr. Jack Woods, he researched multiple aspects of contemporary moral metaphysics, such as the nature of normative explanation and its relationship to scientific explanation. When not researching, Alexios enjoys cooking and practising Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

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Alexander Duthie

Dr. Alexander Duthie is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev under the supervision of Dr. Yevgeny Bar Lev.

His research interests concern the fundamental behaviour of matter on the smallest length scales.

This involves using mathematical and computational tools to understand the behaviour of vast numbers of strongly interacting particles and the often surprising and beautiful collective behaviour that can result. Realizing and manipulating these novel phases of matter is an important step toward a fully-fledged quantum computer in the future. As an Azrieli Fellow, Alexander is planning to explore how the presence of disorder can inhibit systems from reaching thermal equilibrium of their own accord (so-called “many- body localization”) with a potential application in the development of quantum memory devices. His interests also extend to quantum information science and quantum computing – fields which lie at the forefront of the development of next-generation technologies.

Alexander was born in the UK and obtained an undergraduate in natural sciences from Cambridge University. He then completed his DPhil in theory and modelling in chemical sciences at Oxford University under the supervision of Prof. David Logan. His research focused on single-particle systems, which lie on the border between disorder and order, such as quasiperiodic models, and he developed a theoretical framework for understanding their electronic properties. In his spare time,

Alexander enjoys running, cycling, rock climbing, reading, and travelling.

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