Congratulations to the 13 OUI researchers who won 15 ISF grants in the different competative grant ISF programs. 

Personal research grants

  • Dr. Baruch Ziv, from the Department of Natural Sciences, together with a researcher from Tel-Aviv University, for their research titled: "Upper-level summer circulation over the East Mediterranean as a basis for automatic 4-D synoptic classification to better assess present and future climatic evolutions"
  • Dr.  Guy Hetzroni, from the Department of Natural Sciences, for his research titled: "The Projectability of Meta-Inductive Arguments in Theoretical Physics"
  • Prof.  Sarit Moldovan, from the Department of Management and Economics, for her research titled: "Centering disadvantaged individuals through allyship messages: A comprehensive study"
  • Dr. Halely Balaban, from the Department of Education and Psychology, for her research titled: "Capacity limits in commonsense physical reasoning"
  • Dr. Omrit Filtser, from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, for her research titled: "Trajectory Data Analysis through the lens of Geometric Similarity"
  • Dr. Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat, from the Department of Literature, Language and Arts, for his research titled "Retracted Tonal Areas in Sonata-Form Expositions: Circular Directionality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music"
  • Dr. Tammy Amiel Houser, from the Department of Literature, Language and Arts, for her research titled: "The Contemporary Protest Novel"
  • Prof. Zeev Rosenhek, from the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, together with a researcher from Tel-Aviv University, for their research titled: "The financial valuation of social values: Imaginaries, conventions and devices in socially sustainable investing"
  • Dr. Dana Kaplan, from the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, together with a researcher from Ben-Gurion University, for their research titled: "Digital Sexual Conduct: Towards a Theory of Post-Situational Digisexual Sociality"
  • Prof. Guy Miron, from the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Study, together with a researcher from the Hebrew University, for their research titled: "The Nature of German Jews: Environmental Identities in Transition, 1870-1945"
  • Prof. Inbal Ofer, from the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Study, for her research titled: "Experts in Times of Democratic Transition: The Production of Disciplinary Knowledge and Praxis in the Fields of Law and Urban Planning (Spain, 1962-1985)"
  • Prof. Saleem Zaroubi, from the Department of Natural Sciences, for his research titled: "Detection and Interpretation of the Cosmic Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn with LOFAR and NenuFAR"
  • Dr. Nurit Kirsh, from the Department of Natural Sciences, for her research titled: "Weaving Historical Memory in Hebrew Privately-Published Women’s (Auto)biographies"

Equipment grant 

  • Dr. Halely Balaban, from the Department of Education and Psychology, for "Cognitive neuroscience lab for the study of dynamic visual cognition"

Book Publishing grant

  • Prof. Guy Miron, from the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Study

Post-Doc grant

  •  Dr. Hadas Zur, under the supervision of  Prof. Anat Ben-David from the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication. Her research titled: "Research Title: Violent events in the Digital City: Practices, Values, Transformations"

Best of luck to all recipients.