About IAS Distinguished Scholars

Visitors for the Academic Year 2025/2026

Name Institution Period of Visit Host

Prof. Steven LaValle

Prof. Steven LaValle
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
University of Oulu, Finland

Email: steven.lavalle@oulu.fi

November 1-7,
2025
Prof. Dan Halperin
School of Computer Science and AI
Phone: +-972-3-6406478
Email: danha@tauex.tau.ac.il

 

Prof. Andrea Massa

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

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

Two weeks
December 2025
Prof. Amir Boag
School of Electrical Engineering
Phone: +972-3-6408246
Email: boag@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Sergei Tabachnikov

 

Department of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Email: tabachni@math.psu.edu

 

January 11 - April 12,
2026

Prof. Michael Bialy
Department of Pure Mathematics
Phone: +972-3-6408704
Email: bialy@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Jeremy  A. Dauber

Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
Director of Yiddish Studies Program
Department of Germanic Languages 
Colombia University, , NY, USA

Phone: +1 (212) 854-9608
Email: jad213@columbia.edu

Two weeks
Spring Semester
Academic Year 2025/2026
Dr. Yoav Fromer
Department of English and American Studies
Director, Center for the Study of the United States
Email: yoavfromer@tauex.tau.ac.il

Prof. Jonathan Keating FRS

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

Phone: +44 1865 273535

One to two weeks 
Academic Year 2025/2026

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

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

One week
Academic Year 2025/2026

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

One week
Academic Year 2025/2026


 
Prof. Talma Hendler
School of psychological science
Sagol School of neuroscience
Phone: +972-3-6973953

Email: tlvcbf@gmail.com

Prof. Paul North

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

Email: paul.a.north@yale.edu

Three weeks
​​​​​​​Academic Year 2025/2026
Prof. Galili Shahar
Head, School of Cultural Science
Phone: +972-3-6409325

Email: gshahar@tauex.tau.ac.il

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

Four-Six weeks
​​​​​​​Academic Year 2025/2026
Dr. Amit Sever
School of Physics and Astronomy
Phone: +972-3- 6408579 
Email: asever@tauex.tau.ac.il
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