Shelly Levy-Tzedek

SHELLY LEVY-TZEDEK received the BSc degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002, and the MSc and PhD degrees in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2004 and 2008, respectively. She heads the Cognition, Aging, and Rehabilitation Laboratory at the Department of Physical Therapy at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she is also a member of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience and the ABC robotics initiative. In 2018–2019 she was awarded a Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie visiting professorship at the FRIAS Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has been awarded the Pedagogica Award for Outstanding New Researchers, in 2016 and the Toronto Prize for excellence in research in 2018. Her work is funded by national and international foundations - both public and private.