Brief Biography
Yadin Dudai is the Sela Professor of Neurobiology and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. He studied Biology with supplements in Modern History at the Hebrew University, received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Over the years he has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, National Institutes of Health, Edinburgh University, College de France, Boston University and New York University. Dudai‘s research is on brain and behavioral mechanisms of learning and memory. He also authored several books in the field of memory, including The Neurobiology of Memory (Oxford 1989) and Memory from A to Z, keywords, concepts and beyond (Oxford 2002). Dudai serves as a member of professional bodies in the fields of science, education, and science-society interactions. He also has expertise in administration, R&D planning, and journalism. Dudai has held multiple posts in public and academic life, including Advisor on Science Policy in the Prime Minister‘s office, Jerusalem, advisor to the President of the State of Israel, member of the Granting an Planning Committee of the Israeli Council for Higher Education, chair of the life-sciences teaching program and of the postdoctoral programs at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Dean of the Faculty of Biology at the Weizmann Institute. Dudai is also the Albert and Balanche Willner Family Visiting Global Distinguished Professor of Neural Science at New York University.