Professor Type: מרצה

השכלה
.Bachelor's degree in life sciences from Ben Gurion University
.Ph.D. in molecular biology – design of an endonuclease that cuts desired DNA
Visit to Sir Aaron Klug’s laboratory in Cambridge U.K
Post doctorate in neuroscience at the Hebrew University
In recent years, specialization in science teaching and integrative learning
מחקר
I hold a PhD in molecular biology. During work on it, I developed an endonuclease that cuts desired DNA. Patents have been obtained in Europe and the United States, based on the idea and the method I used to develop the endonuclease
Following completion of my doctoral thesis, I was invited to the laboratory of Nobel laureate, Sir Aaron Klug, in Cambridge, U.K
Later, I worked in the laboratory of the Hebrew University. The subject of the research was SNARE proteins – proteins that are responsible for the fusion of synaptic vesicles to the active zone
In recent years, I was a member of a research group that investigated the involvement of VDAC1, a protein that is responsible for the life and death of the cell in cancer and Alzheimer's
Recently, I turned to research topics in the field of teaching and education
I promote interdisciplinary learning of science and literature and lead unique science courses that combine academic and community aspects
דיסציפלינות ראשיות
Main Disciplines
Science Teaching I Sciences
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Secondary Disciplines
Integrative Teaching I Education and Leadership
פרסומים נבחרים
- Hayak, M., Nahon Crystal, E., and Segev, Y, (2024). Multiculturalism in teacher training: The Israeli case. Israel Affairs. Forthcoming
- Verma, A., Shteinfer-Kuzmine, A., Kamenetsky, N., Pittala, S., Paul, A., Nahon Crystal, E., ... & Shoshan-Barmatz, V, (2022). Targeting the overexpressed mitochondrial protein VDAC1 in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease protects against mitochondrial dysfunction and mitigates brain pathology. Translational Neurodegeneration, 11(1), 58.
- Shoshan-Barmatz, V., Anand, U., Nahon Crystal, E., Di Carlo, M., & Shteinfer-Kuzmine, A, (2021). Adverse effects of metformin from diabetes to COVID-19, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and aging: is VDAC1 a common target?. Frontiers in Physiology, 1547
- Shoshan-Barmatz, V., Nahon Crystal, E., Shteinfer-Kuzmine, A., & Gupta, R, (2018). VDAC1, mitochondrial dysfunction, and Alzheimer's disease. Pharmacological Research, 131, 87-101

השכלה
Associate Professor Council for Higher Education
Ph.D. – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Educational Psychology
M.A. – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Educational Psychology
Teaching Diploma Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Education
B.A. – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Educational Counseling and Hebrew Literature
דיסציפלינות ראשיות
Main Disciplines
Psychology I Educational Counseling
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Secondary Disciplines
פרסומים נבחרים
- Walden, T., Shahar, E., Ben Asher, S., Huss, E., & Sagy, S, (2023). Heveli Tikva’ – Peace school for refugee children in Lesbos. Resling Publication. [Hebrew]
- Ben-Asher, S, (2023). Kawkab Innovative Bedouin women. Minrava. [Arabic]
- Ben-Asher, S., Sorek, I., & Shidlovsky, E, (2023). Standardization of national bereavement rights compromises minorities’ civic equality. Democracy and Security, 19(2), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2023.2210471
- Fischl, D., & Ben-Asher, S, (2023). Inclusion as a two- sided container: Structuring the inclusion of a mother to her son, a case study. Shaanan. Academic Religious Teachers’ College. Haifa. (28) pp. 222-244. [Hebrew]
- Ben Asher, S., & Huss, E, (2023). Strengthening resilience in refugee children through art and attention to their voices. Journal of Education in Black Sea Region, 8(2), 14-29. doi:10.31578/jebs.v8i2.289
- Gabay, G., & Ben-Asher, S, (2022). An adlerian-based narrative inquiry of temporal awareness, resilience, and patient-centeredness among emergency physicians – The Gyroscope Model. Qualitative Health Research, 32(14), 2090-2101
- Shein, Y., & Ben-Asher, S, (2022). School practicum with no school: Placement of educational counseling students during the COVID crisis. Dvarim, 15, 67-81. [Hebrew]
- Ben-Atar, A., Druker-Shitrit S., & Ben-Asher, S, (2022). Offensive TikTok videos against Bedouin female students serve as a backlash mechanism of social penalty. Media Frames, 22, 44-66. [Hebrew]
- Walden, Z., Shahar, E., Hoss, E., Ben Asher, S., & Sagy, S, (2021). Babylon in Greece – a place of hope for asylum seekers: The refugee school of peace in Lesbos. Hagira - Israel Journal of Migration, 11, 118-138 [Hebrew]
- Ben-Atar, E., Gez-Langerman, R., & Ben-Asher, S, (2021). We are not Pawns on a Chessboard”: Voices of Gaza Perimeter residents clash with the institution’s voice in the social media". Israel Studies in Language and Society, 14(1), 100-117 [Hebrew]
- Ben Asher, S., Hoss, E., Walden, Z., Shahar, E., & Sagy, S, (2021). In the absence of a home and a state – The hope among the refugee children in the school of peace. Hayeutz Hachinuchi, 23, 82-107 [Hebrew]
- Ben Asher, S., Sagy, S., Srour, A., Walden, T., Huss, E., Shahar, E., & Alsraiha, K, (2020). Hope among refugee children attending the international school of peace on Lesbos. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(2), 2180-2199
- Ben-Asher, S., & Bokek-Cohen, Y, (2020). Commemoration labour as a mechanism of symbolic violence exercised upon national widows. Mortality, 1-16
- Ben-Asher, S., Sabar-Ben Yehoshua, N., & Elbedour, A, (2020). “Neither here nor there” – Flattening, omission, and silencing, in the constructing of identity of Islamic girls who attend a Jewish school'. Israel Affairs, 26(1), 1-18
- Ben-Asher, S, (2020). Kawkab: The story of trailblazing Bedouin women. MOFET Institute. 182 pages. [Hebrew]
- Ben-Asher, S, (2016). Clarity and obscurity in the Kishon affair. Hakibbutz Hameuchad-Sifiat Poalim Red Line Series and MOFET Institute 275 pages. [Hebrew]
- Orr, E., & Ben-Asher, S, (2007). The familiar and the unfamiliar: Social representations of Israeli societies. Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press. 361 pages. [Hebrew]

השכלה
.Ph.D
Bar Ilan University, The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences.
Title: Biofouling in the desalination industry: from source characterization to prevention and reduction
M.Sc. – Ecology
Bar Ilan University, The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences & The IUI – The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat
Title: The effect of elevated sea water temperatures on scleractinian corals’ photophysiology
.B.Sc
Marine sciences and the marine environment.
Ruppin Academic College
מחקר
מחקריו של ד"ר עדי לוי עוסקים בקיימות, סביבה, אקולוגיה, שינויי אקלים ועוד.
דיסציפלינות ראשיות
Main Disciplines
Environmental Sciences I Ecology I Marine Ecology
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Secondary Disciplines
Air Pollution I Public Health
פרסומים נבחרים
- Belek, B., and Levi, A, (2022). EAPC – MED-RED Agreement – Mapping the risks to Israel and policy recommendations. Ecology and the Environment 12(4) (in Hebrew)
- Rahav, E., Herut, B., Spungin, D., Levi, A., Mulholland, M.R. and Berman-Frank, I, (2021). Heterotrophic bacteria outcompete diazotrophs for orthophosphate in the Mediterranean Sea. Limnology and Oceanography
- Levi, A., Berman Elport, T., Krigel, K.and Van der Hal, N, (2021). Aedes albopictus mosquito in Israel – health risks, monitoring and public awareness. Ecology and the Environment 12(2) (in Hebrew)
- Levi, A., and Barnett-Itzhaki, Z, (2021). Effects of chronic exposure to ambient air pollutants, demographic, and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 morbidity: The Israeli case study. Environmental research 202: 111673
- Barnett-Itzhaki Z. and Levi A, (2021). Effects of ambient air pollutants on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality – A lesson from OECD countries. Environmental Research 95: 110723
- Berman Elport, T., Van der Hal, N., Krigel, K., Boulogne, O., Behar, A., Berman, T., Gottlieb, Y., Weinberg, T., Zagron, G., Zask, A., Milo, R., Milstein, D., Stambler, N., Sarfati, M. and Levi, A, (2021). Aedes albopictus mosquito – Mapping public health risks, mosquito monitoring, available solutions and public awareness – Experts’ opinion. The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. pp 38
- Levi, A., Sasson, O., Segal Kaminer, E. and Shwartz, A, (2019). Fire sensitivity reduction and urban forest and grove areas restoration – Haifa as a case study. Ecology and the Environment 9(4): 10-12. (in Hebrew)
- Levi, A, (2018). The collection of Mugilidae fingerlings from estuaries. Ecology and the Environment 9(2): 12-14. (in Hebrew)
- Levi, A. and Van Rijn, I, (2018). Fish restocking as a tool for fish population rehabilitation in the Mediterranean Sea. Ecology and the Environment 9(1): 7-9. (in Hebrew)
- Stambler, N., Levi, A., Wies, G., Rubin Miller, D., Kadosh, T., Borovski, T. (RIP) and Alster, E, (2018). Micro algae and Cyanobacteria in aquatic environments – blooms and toxicity. Ecology and the Environment 9(1): 18-29. (in Hebrew)
- Levi, A., Bar-Zeev, E., Elifantz, H., Berman, T. and Berman-Frank, I, (2016). Characterization of microbial communities in water and biofilms along a large scale SWRO desalination facility: Site-specific prerequisite for biofouling treatments. Desalination 378: 44-52
- Rahav, E., Herut, B. , Levi, A., Mulholland, M. R., and Berman-Frank, I, (2013). Springtime contribution of dinitrogen fixation to primary production across the Mediterranean Sea. Ocean Science 9: 489-498

השכלה
תואר ראשון – חינוך התמחות מתמטיקה, המכללה האקדמית אחוה.
תואר שני – הוראת המדעים – אוניברסיטת בן גוריון בנגב, בהצטיינות.
תואר שלישי – חינוך מתמטי – אוניברסיטת חיפה, מסלול דוקטורנטים מצטיינים.
פוסט דוקטורט – המחלקה להוראת מדעים – מכון ויצמן למדע
מחקר
בעלת דוקטורט Ph.D. בחינוך מתמטי מאוניברסיטת חיפה ופוסט דוקטורט מהמחלקה להוראת המדעים במכון ויצמן למדע. חברת סגל במחלקה למתמטיקה, מרצה במחלקה למתמטיקה, במחלקה לתואר שני בחינוך מתמטי ובמחלקה לגיל הרך. בנוסף, ממונה על ההכשרה הקלינית של הסטודנטים במסלול היסודי והעל- יסודי. מחקרה העיקרי הינו בתחום החדשני– נוירו פדגוגיה. כאשר הדגש העיקרי הינו בחקר אסטרטגיות לפתרון בעיות הקשורות ליצירתיות באמצעות מתודולוגיית מעקב עיניים ויכולות קוגניטיביות. עוסקת בהכשרת מורים למתמטיקה, בהתפתחותם המקצועית לאחר ההכשרה ובקשיים של תלמידים
דיסציפלינות ראשיות
Main Disciplines
Mathematics Education| Neuropedagogy | Eye-Tracking Research on Creativity-Related Problem-Solving
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Secondary Disciplines
Professional Development | Productive Struggle
פרסומים נבחרים
- Eraky A., Karsenty, R., & Pinto A, (2023). Cross-community collaborative task design. In M. Ayalon, B. Koichu, R. Leikin, L. Rubel., & M. Tabach. Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME-46
- Eraky A., Leikin, R., Hadad, B, Hel-Or, H, & Abboud, E, (2023). Identifying creative problem-solving strategies through eye-tracking. In M. Ayalon, B. Koichu, R. Leikin, L. Rubel., & M. Tabach. Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME
- Eraky. A, Guberman, R. & Rozanov, Y. M , (2023). Communication patterns of teachers and students in a mathematical discourse with a struggling student during a simulation experiment. In I. Lavi, E. Levinson & A. Mahajana. Proceedings of the 11th Jerusalem Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (pp. 131-134), Jerusalem College of Technology (In Hebrew)
- Eraky, A., Leikin, R., & Hadad, B, (2023). Analyzing creative directed problem-solving processes using eye movement tracking. In I. Lavi, E. Levinson & A. Mahajana. Proceedings of the 11th Jerusalem Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (pp. 93-96), Jerusalem College of Technology (In Hebrew)
- Eraky, A, (2022). Exploring creativity-related problem-solving strategies using eye-tracking methodology. Department of Mathematics Education, University of Haifa. Advisors: Prof. Roza Leikin & Prof. Bat-Sheva Hadad
- Eraky, A, (2015). 5th-6th grade students' ability to generalize arithmetic and geometric patterns. Thesis for an accredited degree, Department of Science and Technology Teaching, Ben Gurion University. Advisors:: Prof. Michael Freed and Dr. Raisa Guberman. (Hebrew)

השכלה
דוקטורנטית במחלקה להיסטוריה באוניברסיטת בן גוריון. תחום המחקר שלה מתחקה אחר כרונולוגיית התפתחות ייצוג נושא השואה במערכת החינוך החרדית בישראל ואחר האופן שבו עוצבה וסופרה השואה במערכת זו מאז שנת 1953. זוכת מלגת נשיא המדינה לחדשנות ולמצוינות מדעית לדוקטורנטים מצטיינים לשנת 2022 וזוכת פרס גולדהירש לדוקטורנטים מצטיינים שתחום מחקרם עוסק בזיכרון השואה.
ראש התכנית להוראת הספרות וראש תכנית מעל"ה בפקולטה לחינוך ולמנהיגות, מרצה בתכנית לתרבות ישראל. מנצחת על המקהלה האקדמית 'קולות שלובים'.
תחומי מחקרה עוסקים בתווך שבין חינוך, חברה ותרבות. בנוסף לתפקידיה במכללה, מייעצת פדגוגית למרכז פסג"ה (מרכז פיתוח סגלי הוראה) ועוסקת בפיתוח ובחדשנות פדגוגית.
בוגרת .B.Ed תואר ראשון בחינוך והוראת ההיסטוריה והספרות בהצטיינות יתרה, המכללה האקדמית אחוה ו-.M.Ed תואר שני בתרבות ישראל והוראתה בהצטיינות יתרה, המכללה האקדמית אחוה
מחקר
תחומי מחקר עיקריים: השואה וזיכרונה, אומץ מוסרי בחינוך, ספרות בדו לשון, זהות – שפה – תרבות, רב תרבותיות בחינוך הישראלי
דיסציפלינות ראשיות
Main Disciplines
היסטוריה של עם ישראל | ספרות עברית | חינוך ופדגוגיה
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Secondary Disciplines
חברה ותרבות
פרסומים נבחרים
- אבוחצירא, חנה, צבר בן יהושע, נעמה, (2017). "מטקסט מקונן לאירוע מכונן : על תפישת היהדות החילונית את ט' באב ומשמעותה ביחס לתופעת התחדשות היהדות". עיונים בשפה וחברה, 10, (1) עמ' 146-130
- אבוחצירא, חנה, ברץ, לאה, (2013). "ספרות אקולוגית כתובה עברית ערבית – מפעלו של רן לוי יממורי". ספרות ילדים ונוער, 20, עמ' 57-76
- Baratz, Lea, Reingold, Roni, Abuatzira, Hannah, (2013). Israeli Teachers' Definitions of Morally Courageous Behavior in Education. Journal of Education and Learning, 2 (1), 84-93
- Baratz, Lea , Abuatzira, Hannah, (2012). Children’s Literature as an Important Tool for Education of Sustainability and the Environment. International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2(1)
- Baratz, Lea, Reingold. Roni, Abuatzira, Hannah, (2011). Bi-lingual newspaper as an expression of a fake multicultural educational policy in Israel. International Education Studies, 4 (4), 160-167
- ברץ, ל', אבוחצירא, ח' וריינגולד, ר' , (2011). המורה הראוי לחברה הישראלית. ועדת המחקר הבין-מכללתית, מכון מופ"ת
- ברץ, לאה, אבוחצירא, חנה , (2011). חשיבותה של ספרות הילדים ככלי לחינוך לקיימות ולחינוך סביבתי. ביטאון מכון מופת, 45, תל אביב, 82-86
- ברץ, לאה ,ריינגולד, רוני, אבוחצירא, חנה , (2010). קליטת יהודי אתיופיה בהיבט לשוני, חברתי וחינוכי. הד האולפן החדש,97, ירושלים, עמ' 80-71
- אבוחצירא, חנה, ברץ, לאה, ריינגולד, רוני, (2010). עיתון בדו לשון: אמצעי חינוכי להעצמת המשפחה בקרב קהילת יוצאי אתיופיה כבסיס להטמעתה בחברה הישראלית. הד האולפן החדש, 99, ירושלים, עמ' 98-90

השכלה
B.A. Tel-Aviv University, Departments of English and Linguistics [double major]
M.A. Bar-Ilan University, Department of English [Linguistics] (cum laude)
Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, Department of English [Linguistics]
מחקר
I graduated from Bar-Ilan University in 2009. My doctoral studies inspired my research in the field of Clinical Linguistics, and my Ph.D. thesis presented a study examining the acquisition of a second language (Hebrew) by speakers with schizophrenia. During my Ph.D. studies and for several subsequent years, I implemented linguistic analysis to get insight into the process of the Second Language acquisition by schizophrenia-affected patients.
After a break, that was related to maternity leave, the focus of my research shifted to implementing linguistic analysis as a generic tool in educational settings and demonstrating the value of linguistic analysis for understanding implicitly conveyed messages. In particular, since 2017, I have employed the methods of linguistic analysis (predominantly Systemic Functional Linguistics) to understand the phenomena related to the development of pre- and inservice teachers’ professional identity in the context of PBL and team teaching. In addition, I have applied the means of Systemic Functional Linguistic analysis, computational linguistics, and language psychology methods to study science teachers’ worldviews in the context of the digital revolution (collaboration with Tsybulsky, D.). Finally, a similar linguistic analysis methodology was used to understand the process of Mobile Learning adoption by pre- and inservice teachers. In particular, a recently submitted study is dedicated to inservice teachers’ emotional response to their experience of the ML-technology adoption (collaboration with Frei-Landau R., Avidov-Ungar O.).
In 2018, I joined Achva Simulations Center, led by Dr. Levin. In our collaborative work, I employed methods of linguistic analysis to shed light on the evidence of preservice teachers’ professional development during Simulation-Based Learning. In addition, as a member of the Simulation Center research team, I have contributed to examining the simulation-observer's learning experience by utilizing various methods of linguistic analysis as a generic tool (in collaboration with Frei-Landau R). Finally, I have used the methods of linguistic analysis to examine how elementary mathematics teachers’ competencies to implement neuroscience theory into their teaching practices were built
דיסציפלינות ראשיות
Main Disciplines
Linguistics
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Secondary Disciplines
ESOL
פרסומים נבחרים
- Smirnova D., Walters J., Fine J., Muchnik-Rozanov, Y., Paz M., Lerner, V., Belmaker H., Bersudsky Y, (2015). ?Schizophrenia in bilingual immigrants: is verbal fluency preserved in second language acquisition. acquisition? European Psychiatry, 30 (1), 28-31
- Smirnova D., Walters J., Fine J., Muchnik-Rozanov, Y., Paz M., Lerner, V., Belmaker H., Bersudsky Y, (2015). Second language as a compensatory resource for maintaining verbal fluency in bilingual immigrants with schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 75, 596-606
- Smirnova D., Walters J., Fine J., Muchnik-Rozanov, Y., Paz M., Lerner V., Belmaker H., Bersudsky Y, (2014). Second language reflects more psychopathology but compensates the verbal fluency in bilinguals with schizophrenia. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 24 (2), 500-501