The Israel Young Academy is pleased to announce the nine awarded proposals for a special grant, funding lab visits in Israel by leading international researchers and their group members. This initiative aims to encourage long-term international collaborations and expose Israeli researchers to diverse scientific fields through direct meetings with researchers from around the world.

 

The visits, planned to take place during 2025 and until April 2026 for a minimum of 14 days, will include significant interactions between local research groups and the visiting scholars and their group members, exposure to the research field of the visitors through seminars at a minimum of two academic institutions, direct meetings with students, initiation of collaborative research, and exposure of the visitors to local research. During and after the visit, the hosts and visiting scholars will initiate a joint research proposal.

 

The following are the nine proposals which were each awarded a grant of up to 50,000 NIS:

 

1. Prof. David A. Schwartz, University of Colorado School of Medicine 

Field: Clinical psychology

Host: Dr. Reut Naim, Tel Aviv University

Co-hosts:

Prof. Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Nilly Mor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

3. Prof. Andreea Gruev-Vintila, University Paris Nanterre, Parisian Research Centre for Social Psychology

 

4. Prof. Yvonne Perrie, University of Strathclyde

Field: Biology, Medicine

Host: Dr. Assaf Zinger, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Co-hosts:

Prof. Rachela Popovtzer, Bar-Ilan University

Prof. Ofra Benny, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Dan Peer, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Ayelet David, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

5. Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Aarhus University

Field: Philosophy, Politics

Hosts: Dr. Adi Goldiner, Prof. Re’em Segev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Co-host:

Prof. Sagit Mor, Dr. Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar, University of Haifa

Dr. Natalie Davidson, Tel Aviv University

 

6. Prof. Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University

Field: Economy

Host: Dr. Carmela Lutmar, University of Haifa

Co-hosts:

Prof. Yoram Haftel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University

 

7. Prof. Nini Pryds, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Field: Materials, Physics

Host: Prof. Lior Kornblum, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Co-hosts:

Prof. Yoram Dagan, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Muntaser Naamneh, Ben-Gurion University

Prof. Yoad Tsur, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

 

8. Prof. Steven B. Smith, Yale University

Field: Politics

Host: Dr. Charles H. T. Lesch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Co-hosts:

Dr. Pablo Balán, Dr. Rachel Z. Friedman, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Jacob Abolafia, Ben Gurion University (Dept. of Philosophy)

Prof. Leon Kass, Shalem College

 

9. Prof. Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Oxford University

Field: Law

Host: Prof. Einat Albin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Co-host:

Prof. Irit Hadar, University of Haifa