Misha Tsodyks received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow. He then held various research positions in Moscow, Rome, Jerusalem and San Diego, before joining the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, in 1995, where he became a full professor in 2005. Misha Tsodyks worked on a wide range of topics in computational neuroscience, such as attractor neural networks, place-related activity in hippocampus, mathematical models of short- and long-term synaptic plasticity in the neocortex, population activity and functional architecture in the primary visual cortex and perceptual learning in the human visual system. His research benefited from close collaborative links that he established with experimental neuroscientists during different stages in his career, among them Amiram Grinvald, Henry Markram, Bruce McNaughton and Dov Sagi. He held long-term visiting positions in the Institute of Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, UC Santa Barbara, CNRS Paris and Columbia University.