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Uri Muz Maoz Maoz. Completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Neural Computation in 2008 by Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bachelor in Computer Science and Amirim in 2000 by Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Is Visiting Professor in UCLA Anderson School of Management, Assistant Professor in Chapman University, Visiting Professor in UCLA Anderson School of Management, Visiting Professor in California Institute of Technology Division of Biology and Biological Engineering and Visiting Professor in Chapman University. Published 19 articles in journals. Has 4 section(s) of books. Organized 3 event(s). Participated in 2 event(s). Has received 16 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 3 project(s) and Principal investigator in 8 project(s).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Uri Muz Maoz Maoz

Citation names

  • Maoz, Uri

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2818-18FE-3B39
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7899-1241
Education
Degree Classification
2000 - 2008
Concluded
 Neural Computation (Doctor of Philosophy)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1997 - 2000
Concluded
 Computer Science and Amirim (Bachelor)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - 2018 Visiting Researcher (Research) California Institute of Technology, United States
2013 - 2017 Researcher (Research) Fundação Bial, Portugal
2009 - 2014 Postdoc (Research) California Institute of Technology Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, United States
California Institute of Technology Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, United States
2007 - 2009 Postdoc (Research) Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) California Institute of Technology Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, United States
2019 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Chapman University, United States
2018 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) UCLA Anderson School of Management, United States
2017 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) UCLA Anderson School of Management, United States
2017 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Chapman University, United States
2018 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, United States
2015 - 2017 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) UCLA Department of Psychology, United States
2015 - 2015 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of California Los Angeles, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021 - Current Bial Foundation (USD 45k)
-
Principal investigator
Fundação Bial, Portugal
2020 - Current Kay Family Foundation Data Analytic Grant (USD 100k)
-
Principal investigator
2018 - Current Boston Scientific Sponsored Research Award ($53,000)
(#AGMT_02/01/2018)
Principal investigator
2017 - Current Caltech Chen Center Competitive Internal Grant ($40,000)
Caltech Chen Center Competitive Internal Grant
Other
2019 - 2023 Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation ($7,201,821)
John Templeton Foundation #61283
Fetzer Institute, Fetzer Memorial Trust #4189)
Principal investigator
John Templeton Foundation

Fetzer Institute

John E Fetzer Memorial Trust
Ongoing
2019 - 2021 Kay Family Foundation Data Analytic Grant ($100,000)
A20-0034
Other
2020 - 2020 Fetzer Pioneers award ($11,000)
(#237, Docket #P2019-2)
Principal investigator
Concluded
2019 - 2019 Fetzer Pioneers award ($43,815)
Fetzer Pioneers award
Principal investigator
2015 - 2017 BIAL Foundation (€48,500)
(388/2014)
Principal investigator
Fundação Bial
2013 - 2014 Ralph Schlaeger Charitable Foundation ($60,000)
Ralph Schlaeger Charitable Foundation
Other
2013 - 2014 BIAL Foundation (€49,000)
(209/2012)
Principal investigator
Fundação Bial, Portugal
2011 - 2013 Big Questions in Free Will Initiative ($399,207)
(FSU.SC103)
Principal investigator
Florida State University

John Templeton Foundation
Concluded
2011 - 2012 Ralph Schlaeger Charitable Foundation ($91,296)
Ralph Schlaeger Charitable Foundation
Principal investigator
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Free Will: Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation. Oxford University Press. 2022.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Maoz, Uri; Linstead, Erik. "Brain imaging and artificial intelligence". In Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imaging, 99-103. Elsevier, 2019.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-816179-1.00017-7
  2. Maoz, Uri; Mudrik, Liad; Rivlin, Ram; Ross, Ian; Mamelak, Adam; Yaffe, Gideon. "On Reporting the Onset of the Intention to Move". In Surrounding Free Will, 184-202. Oxford University Press, 2014.
    10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199333950.003.0010
  3. Maoz, Uri; Yaffe, Gideon. "Neuroscience and The Law". In Cognitive Neuroscience. Norton & Company, 2013.
    Published
  4. Flash, Tamar; Maoz, Uri; Polyakov, Felix. "Arm Trajectory Formation". In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 168-173. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
    10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_361
Journal article
  1. Omura, Y; Kripike, J; Salavatian, S; Afyouni, A; Wooten, C; Herkenham, R; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39); et al. "Neuraxial Bupivacaine Reduces Ventricular Arrhythmias during Myocardial Ischemia by Suppressing the Neuronal Activity and Interactions in the Dorsal Horn and Intermediolateral Nucleus of Spinal Cord". Anesthesiology (2021):
    Published
  2. Lashgari, E; Maoz, Uri. "Electromyography Classification during Reach-to-Grasp Motion using Manifold Learning". PLoS ONE (2021):
    Open access • Published
  3. Lashgari, E; Ott, J; Connelly, A; Baldi, P; Maoz, Uri. "An end-to-end CNN with attentional mechanism applied to raw EEG in a BCI classification task". Journal of Neural Engineering (2021):
    Published
  4. Wong, A; Merholz, G; Maoz, Uri. "Characterizing human random-sequence generation in competitive and non-competitive environments using Lempel-Ziv complexity". Scientific Reports (2021):
    Open access • Published
  5. Chandravadia, N.; Liang, D.; Schjetnan, A. G. P.; Carlson, A.; Faraut, M.; Chung, J. M.; Reed, C. M.; et al. "A NWB-based dataset and processing pipeline of human single-neuron activity during a declarative memory task". Scientific Data 7 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0415-9.
    10.1038/s41597-020-0415-9
  6. Mudrik, Liad; Levy, Dino J.; Gavenas, Jake; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39). "Studying volition with actions that matter: Combining the fields of neuroeconomics and the neuroscience of volition.". Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 7 1 (2020): 67-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000200.
    10.1037/cns0000200
  7. Lashgari, E; Liang, D; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39). "Data Augmentation for Deep Learning-Based Electroencephalography". (2020):
    Submitted
  8. Lashgari, E; Pouya, A; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39). "Decoding Object Weight from Electromyography during Human Grasping". (2020):
    Submitted
  9. Lashgari, E; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39). "Electromyography Classification during Reach-to-Grasp Motion using Manifold Learning". (2020):
    Submitted
  10. Wong, SM; Merholz-Revel, G; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39). "Can randomness be implicitly learned? On transferring the ability to create random sequences". (2020):
    Submitted
  11. Lashgari, E; Liang, D; Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39). "Data Augmentation for Deep Learning-Based Electroencephalography". Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2020):
    Published
  12. Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39); Yaffe, Gideon; Koch, Christof; Mudrik, Liad. "Neural precursors of decisions that matter—an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice". eLife 8 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.39787.
    10.7554/elife.39787
  13. Oh, Jihoon; Yun, Kyongsik; Maoz, Uri; Kim, Tae-Suk; Chae, Jeong-Ho. "Identifying depression in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data using a deep learning algorithm". Journal of Affective Disorders 257 (2019): 623-631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.06.034.
    10.1016/j.jad.2019.06.034
  14. Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39); Sita, Kellienne R.; van Boxtel, Jeroen J. A.; Mudrik, Liad. "Does It Matter Whether You or Your Brain Did It? An Empirical Investigation of the Influence of the Double Subject Fallacy on Moral Responsibility Judgments". Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00950.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00950
  15. Hill, B; Brown, B; Gabel, E; Lee, C; Cannesson, M; Loohuis, L; Johnson, R; et al. "Preoperative predictions of in-hospital mortality using electronic medical record data". British Journal of Anaesthesia (2019):
    Published
  16. Titiz, Ali S; Hill, Michael R H; Mankin, Emily A; M Aghajan, Zahra; Eliashiv, Dawn; Tchemodanov, Natalia; Maoz, Uri; et al. "Theta-burst microstimulation in the human entorhinal area improves memory specificity". eLife 6 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.29515.
    10.7554/elife.29515
  17. Maoz, Uri (2818-18FE-3B39); Yaffe, Gideon. "What does recent neuroscience tell us about criminal responsibility?". Journal of Law and the Biosciences 3 1 (2015): 120-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv051.
    10.1093/jlb/lsv051
  18. Mudrik, Liad; Maoz, Uri. "“Me & My Brain”: Exposing Neuroscience's Closet Dualism". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 27 2 (2015): 211-221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00723.
    10.1162/jocn_a_00723
  19. Maoz, Uri; Flash, Tamar. "Spatial constant equi-affine speed and motion perception". Journal of Neurophysiology 111 2 (2014): 336-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.01071.2012.
    10.1152/jn.01071.2012
  20. Maoz, Uri; Rutishauser, Ueli; Kim, Soyoun; Cai, Xinying; Lee, Daeyeol; Koch, Christof. "Predeliberation activity in prefrontal cortex and striatum and the prediction of subsequent value judgment". Frontiers in Neuroscience 7 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00225.
    10.3389/fnins.2013.00225
  21. Maoz, Uri; Ye, S; Ross, I; Mamelak, A; Koch, Christof. "Predicting Action Content On-Line and in Real Time before Action Onset – an Intracranial Human Study". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2012):
    Published
  22. Pollick, Frank E.; Maoz, Uri; Handzel, Amir A.; Giblin, Peter J.; Sapiro, Guillermo; Flash, Tamar. "Three-dimensional arm movements at constant equi-affine speed". Cortex 45 3 (2009): 325-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.010.
    10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.010
  23. Maoz, Uri; Berthoz, Alain; Flash, Tamar. "Complex Unconstrained Three-Dimensional Hand Movement and Constant Equi-Affine Speed". Journal of Neurophysiology 101 2 (2009): 1002-1015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.90702.2008.
    10.1152/jn.90702.2008
  24. Maoz, Uri; Portugaly, E; Flash, T; Weiss, Y. "Noise and the two-thirds power law". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2005):
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020 Maoz U, Haggard P, Roskies, A, Mudrik, L, and Schurger A (06/2020) What is the relation between conscious intention and action formation? Empirical, modeling, and philosophical perspectives. 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness o Individual talk title: The experience of intending and the neural underpinnings of arbitrary & deliberate action
2020 Maoz U, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Schurger A, and Isham E (04/2020) Free will and the role of consciousness in decision-making, Science of Consciousness. Individual talk title: On the role of consciousness in deliberate decisions
2020 eLife Online Research Talks (04/2020) “Arbitrary and deliberate decisions in the neuroscience of volition”
2020 Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) MEG/EEG Conference 2020 (03/2020) “Studying volition by combining EEG with physiological monitoring, TMS, flotation tank, and other measures”
2019 Bioethics Symposium, UCLA (11/2019) “Conceptual Clarity in the Neuroscience of Volition” (with Pamela Hieronymi)
2019 Debate with Philosopher Mark Balaguer, Cal State LA (10/2019) “Neuroscience and Free Will”
2019 Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Canada (08/2019) “One Perspective on the Neuroscience of Volition”
2019 Computational Neuroscience Affinity Group, Brain Research Institute, UCLA, (05/2019), “The readiness potential in arbitrary and deliberate decisions—a modeling perspective”
2019 Second International Conference on Neuroscience and Free Will, Southern California, (3/2019) “Do the Libet results generalize to deliberate decisions?”
2018 Speaker, Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP), Duke University
2018 22 nd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, ASSC 22, (6/2018), “On the role of consciousness in arbitrary and deliberate decision —an ERP study”
2018 Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP), Duke University (6/2018), “The neuroscience of volition for decisions that do and do not matter”
2017 Speaker, “Neural correlates of volition”, International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity, University College London
2017 Brain Science and Gratitude, Mindfulness, and Spiritual Practices: Implications for the University, Chapman University (10/2017) “Are our intentions effective? The neuroscience of free will and moral responsibility”
2017 IMPRS NeuroCom/ICN Summer School, London, UK (7/2017) “The neuroscience of volition in deliberate and arbitrary decision-making”
2017 International Conference on Neuroscience and Free Will, Sigtuna, Sweden (6/2017) “Randomness, Competition, and Implicit Learning”
2017 Behavioral Decision-Making Forum, UCLA Anderson School of management (3/2017) “Neural mechanisms of arbitrary and deliberate decisions”
2017 Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence Conference, UCLA Law School (3/2017) “Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility”
2014 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Symposium (11/2014) “Predicting actions in speeded reaction-time and delayed-action tasks, an intracortical human study” (Chair, & Human Decision-Making: Neural Mechanisms & Nanosymposium)
2014 Cognitive Forum of the University of California Los Angeles (2/2014) “Neural Precursors of Decisions that Matter – Single-Neuron, Intracortical & ERP Studies”
2013 Speaker, “Cognitive Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility”, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Lake Tahoe, California
2013 Big Questions in Free Will Symposium, Florida State University (1/2013) “On the Neural Representation of Deliberate and Random Decisions”
2013 Weizmann Institute of Science (10/2013) “Is Consciousness Involved in Deliberate Decision Making? Evidence from Intracranial Recordings”
2013 17 th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, ASSC 17 (7/2013) “Is Consciousness Involved in Deliberate Decision-Making? Evidence from Intracranial Recordings” (Concurrent session chair)
2013 Tahoe Summer School in Cognitive Neuroscience (7/2013) “Cognitive Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility”
2013 Big Questions in Free Will Symposium, Florida State University (1/2013) “Reasoned Decisions and the Causal Role of Intentions”
2012 SAGE Center Forum, University of California Santa Barbara (5/2012) “On Predicting Decisions and Actions, An Intracranial Study in Monkeys and Humans”
2012 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (4/2012) “Predicting Decisions and Actions from Intracranial Signals in Monkeys and Humans”
2012 Bern University (4/2012) “Predicting Decisions and Actions, Intracranial Studies in Monkeys and Humans”
2012 Big Questions in Free Will Symposium, Florida State University (1/2012) “Intracranial Study of Free Will and Moral Responsibility”
2011 Memory and Decision Forum, Stanford University (9/2011) “Neural Prejudice: Prestimulus Activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Subsequent Value Judgment”
2011 Weizmann Institute of Science (4/2011) “Neural Prejudice: Prestimulus Activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Biases Subsequent Value Judgment”
2011 Bar Ilan University (4/2011) “Neural Prejudice: Prestimulus Activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Biases Subsequent Value Judgment”
2009 Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering, Delft, Netherlands (8/2009) “Deliberation on Deliberation: Moral Responsibility after Libet”
2007 University of Cambridge (2/2007) “Noise, Smoothness and the Two-Thirds Power Law”
2005 College de France (6/2005) “Power Laws of Three-Dimensional Hand Movement”
2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4/2004) “Invariants of Three-Dimensional Movement”

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020 5 Graduate Students (as Ph.D. advisor); 1 Graduate Student (as M.S. advisor), 3 full- time, postbaccalaureate students; 15 Research Assistants; Chapman. 1 Research Assistant University of Nebraska Lincoln & UCLA (awarded NSF GRFP for PhD studies at UCLA)
Supervisor
2019 - 2019 5 Graduate Students (as Ph.D. advisor); 1 Graduate Student (as M.S. advisor), 3 full-time, postbaccalaureate students; 15 Research Assistants; Chapman
Supervisor
2018 - 2018 5 Graduate Students (as Ph.D. advisor), 14 Research Assistants (3 graduate students, 10 undergraduate students, 1 paid RA, Chapman
Supervisor
2017 - 2017 2 Graduate Students (as advisor), 6 Research Assistants (3 undergraduate students, 3 volunteers), Chapman 3 Graduate Students (co-mentoring), 11 Research Assistants (7 undergraduate students, 4 volunteers), UCLA
Supervisor
2016 - 2016 1 Graduate Student (co-mentoring), 9 Research Assistants (5 undergraduate students, 4 volunteers), UCLA
Supervisor
2015 - 2015 10 Research Assistants (8 undergraduate students, 2 volunteers), UCLA
Supervisor
2013 - 2014 2 Research Assistants, Caltech
Supervisor
2011 - 2014 3 Postdoctoral Scholars (co-mentoring), Caltech
Supervisor
2011 - 2014 1 Graduate Student, Caltech
Supervisor
2012 - 2013 3 Research Assistants, Caltech
Supervisor
2011 - 2013 9 Undergraduate Students, Caltech
Supervisor
2008 - 2008 1 M.S. Student (assistant mentor), Weizmann Institute of Science
Supervisor

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 2nd International Conference on the Neuroscience of Free Will, Southern California (2019 - 2019)
Symposium
2017 - 2017 International Conference on Free Will, Sigtuna, Sweden (with Hans Liljenstrom) (2017 - 2017)
Symposium
2009 - 2009 Neuroscience and Society—Mutual Influences and Criticism, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2009 - 2009)
Symposium

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2014 - 2014 Chair “Human Decision-Making: Neural Mechanisms” Nanosymposium, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, 2014
Symposium
2013 - 2013 Chair “Feeling, Consciousness and decision-making” concurrent session, 17 th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)
Symposium

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020 Data Mining (15-week graduate course), Computational and Data Sciences, Chapman
2019 - 2019 Philosophy and Neurosciences of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (15-week course)
2019 - 2019 Workshop on Deep Learning, Master of Science in Business Analytics, UCLA Anderson School of Management
2019 - 2019 Data Mining (15-week graduate course), Computational and Data Sciences, Chapman
2018 - 2018 Philosophy and Neurosciences of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (15-week course), Psych & Phil, winner 2018-2019 Chapman Co-Teaching Competition Award*
2018 - 2018 Data Mining (15-week graduate course), Computational and Data Sciences, Chapman
2018 - 2018 Psychology of Learning (15-week course), Psych. Dept., Chapman
2018 - 2018 Workshop on Deep Learning as part of “Industry Seminars” in Master of Science in Business Analytics, UCLA Anderson School of Management*
2017 - 2017 Machine-Learning in Brain Science (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA*
2017 - 2017 Advanced Topics in Matlab Programming (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA*
2017 - 2017 Free Will and Moral Responsibility, from Neuroscience to Philosophy and Back (10-week graduate/undergraduate course), Honors Collegium, UCLA*
2017 - 2017 Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA
2016 - 2016 Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA
2016 - 2016 Human Memory (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA
2016 - 2016 Matlab Programming for Behavioral Sciences (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA ×3
2015 - 2015 Matlab Programming for Behavioral Sciences (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA
2015 - 2015 Human Memory (10-week course), Psych. Dept., UCLA
2010 - 2010 Free-Will & Decision-Making (class), Neurobiological Basis of Consciousness course, Caltech
2005 - 2005 Between Mind, Brain and Culture (14-week course), Hebrew University of Jerusalem*
2004 - 2004 Legal Thought (14-week course), Teaching Assistant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003 - 2003 Cognition and Computation (14-week course), Teaching Assistant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Distinctions

Award

2020 Competitive Plenary Session Award - 24 th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 24)
2018 Chapman Co-Teaching Award for “Philosophy and Neurosciences of Free Will and Moral Responsibility” course
Chapman University, United States
2017 UCLA Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching (competitive admission)
University of California Los Angeles, United States
2017 UCLA Faculty Learning Program in STEM Education (competitive admission) ($1500)
University of California Los Angeles, United States
2017 Competitive course proposal: Neuroscience & Philosophy
University of California Los Angeles, United States
2016 Best Oral Presentation - 2016 World Institute of Pain Congress (coauthor)
2016 Department Teaching Award, Nomination - Department of Psychology, UCLA
2014 Merit-Based Travel Award for Poster ($500) - 2nd Human Single Neuron Recording Conference
2012 Best Poster Award - 10 th European Congress on Epileptology (coauthor)
2008 Full Postdoctoral Dean Fellowship ($ 25,000)
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2006 Best Poster Award (first prize; $ 400) - Second International Computational Motor Control Workshop (ICMC2)
2005 Andrew Rogers Fellowship ($ 20,000)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2003 Dean Fellowship ($ 10,000)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2000 Merit-Based Scholarship & Stipend ($ 50,000)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1999 Industrial Research Project Scholarship ($ 12,500) - Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor, Jerusalem Municipality and BioMedicom
1996 Merit-Based Scholarship & Stipend ($ 3,000)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel