About IAS Distinguished Scholars

Prof. Paul Wiegmann 

Department of Physics and the College
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Phone: +1 (773) 702-4208
Email: wiegmann@uchicago.edu
 

Prof. Amit Sever 
School of Physics and Astronomy
Phone: +972-3-6408579
Email: asever@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Dr. Christoph von der Malsburg

Senior Fellow
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Frankfurt, Germany

Phone: +49 069 798 47534
Email: malsburg@fias.uni-frankfurt.de

Prof. Talma Hendler 
School of Psychological Science
Email: thendler@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Mark Sandler 

Director of the Centre for Digital Music
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK

Phone: +44 20 7882 7680
Email: mark.sandler@qmul.ac.uk

Prof. Ram Zamir
School of Electrical Engineering
Phone: +972-3-6406273
Email: ramzamir@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Joel D. Eaves 

Department of Chemistry
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado, USA

Phone: +1 (303) 492 5642
Email: joel.eaves@colorado.edu

Prof. Jonathan Keating FRS

Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK 

Phone: +44 1865 273535

One to two weeks 
May-June, 2025

Prof. Lior Bary-Soroker
School of Mathematical Sciences
Phone: +972-3-640-5362
Email: barylior@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Michele Gelfand

Distinguished University Professor 
Department of Psychology
The University of Maryland,
College Park, Maryland, USA

Email: mgelfand@umd.edu

Prof. Jean-François Joanny

Professeur Statutaire
Soft-matter and Biophysics
Collège de France, Paris, France

Phone: +33 1 44 27 15 43
Email:
jean-francois.joanny@college-de-france.fr

Prof. Andrea Massa

Department of Civil, Environmental
and Mechanical Engineering
University of Trento, Trento, Italy 

Phone: +39 0461 282057
Email: andrea.massa@unitn.it

Prof. Herman Aguinis

Vice President & Program Chair - Academy of Management
Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar
Chairperson, Department of Management
The George Washington University School of Business
Washington DC, USA Washington, D.C., USA

Email: haguinis@gwu.edu

Dr. Uriel Stettner
Academic Director, Coller School of Management
Phone: +972-3- 640-6330
Email: urielste@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Mitsuo Kawato

Director,
Brain Information Communication Research 
Laboratory Group
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Kyoto, Japan

Email:kawato@atr.jp

Prof. Paul North

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Email: paul.a.north@yale.edu

Prof. Pedro Vieira

The Clay Riddell Paul Dirac Chair in Theoretical Physics
Perimeter Institute for  Theoretical Physics 
Perimeter Research Chair,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Email: pvieira@perimeterinstitute.ca