I was born in Irkutsk, Russia. When I was 3 years old my family moved to Israel. In Israel I lived in Haifa for a few years, and then moved to Jerusalem where I spent most of my life, going to primary school and high school. At the age of 18 I was recruited to the Israeli army where I served in the navy for 3 years, both at sea on a combat ship and on land.

Immediately after finishing my army service, I started studying Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I had the great pleasure and honour of learning from great physicists such as Nir Shaviv, and Jacob Bekenstein to name a few, and the mathematician Ruth Lawrence. After the first year of studies I received the dean’s prize and joined the university’s honours program called ‘Amirim’. During my studies I also worked at the computational quantum Chemistry centre at the University, doing computational projects and being responsible of the centre and director’s (Prof. Sason Shaik) websites.

At the time, I was particularly interested in Astrophysics and Cosmology and I chose my research project for the bachelor’s degree to be in the field of galaxy formation studies using cosmological simulations. After graduating I naturally continued my research in the same field with my advisor Prof. Avishai Dekel for the master’s degree, titled “on the origin of angular momentum in galaxies”.

Following the Master’s degree, I decided to switch my interest to the field of condensed matter and Nanoscience. I wanted to experience life abroad as well so I started looking for PhD positions in various universities in Europe and USA. I was accepted to work with Prof. Vladimir Falko at Lancaster University, UK in September 2014. Following the first year we moved to the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester. During my PhD I studied two-dimensional materials for optoelectronic applications. This involved developing and understanding the theory behind the unique electronic and optical properties of these materials, and how these can be applied to actual devices such as photo-detectors, transistors, light emitters etc. At the NGI I had the great privilege to work alongside the two Nobel laureates Prof. Konstantin Novoselov and Prof. Andrei Geim, as well as other visiting theoreticians and experimentalists.

On 14/03/2018 I successfully defended my PhD thesis. My PhD Thesis titled “Optoelectronics of Two Dimensional Transision Metal Dichalcogenides” .

Following my PhD and academic life, I decided to pursue a career in data science, and started working as a consultant at Amey Strategic Consulting working on data science projects related to infrastructure in the UK.

On 16/11/2020 I started working at causaLens as a data scientist, working on applying causal machine learning to various problems.