Laureates 2021
Prof. Domenico Agostini is an Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Entin Faculty of Humanities. His research focuses on historical, religious, anthropological, and philological topics pertaining to pre-Islamic Iran and Zoroastrianism. In particular, he studies apocalypse, individual and collective "end time" and creation myth doctrines as well as their interactions with the Mediterranean traditions in Antiquity and Late Antiquity.
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Prof. Emilia Fridman is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering, Fleischman Faculty of Engineering. Her research interests include time-delay systems, networked control systems, distributed parameter systems, robust control, singular perturbations, and nonlinear control. She has published some 200 journal articles and is the author/co-author of two monographs. Since 2018, she has been the incumbent for the Chana and Heinrich Manderman Chair on System Control. She is also an IEEE Fellow.
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Prof. Dalit Rom-Shiloni is a Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Department of Biblical Studies, Entin Faculty of Humanities. Her academic interests include Judean theology and ideology of the sixth century BCE, specifically concepts of God in times of national crisis; ideologies of war, and internal ideological conflicts of identity within the Judean communities of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods.
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Prof. Yossi Yovel is an Associate Professor at the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Head of both the Sagol School of Neuroscience and the I. Meier Segals Zoological Garden. His research combines biology with technology, focusing on how bats use sound (bio-sonar) to map and navigate their environment. This has led to the development of a bat-like autonomous robot that navigates using sound only, as well as several other biomimetic applications, two of which were recently patented.
