Yossi Yovel

Yossi Yovel is an associate Professor in the School of Zoology and in the School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, and the head of the lab of NeuroEcology. He received a B. Sc. degree in Biology and another one in physics both from Tel Aviv University, an M. Sc. in Neuroscience from Tel-Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Biology and Machine Learning from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He then completed two post-docs in the Weizmann Institute and in the University of Chicago before joining Tel-Aviv University Faculty in 2011. Prof. Yovel's research combines biology with technology. His work on bat bio-sonar has driven the development of a bat-like autonomous robot that navigates autonomously using sound only, as well as several other bio-mimetic applications in precision agriculture. His work on bats drove the development of miniature GPS sensors that allow tracking the smallest animals ever tracked before. His work on bats' use of bio-sonar for navigation in the field in parallel to using MRI to study the bats' brain in the lab made him establish a new field which he terms Neuro-Ecology which brings together ideas from Neuroscience and Ecology