Gal Richter-Levin

Gal Richter-Levin is the founder and head of the Haifa Forum for Brain and Behavior, and the director of the Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience (ISAN), at the University of Haifa. He obtained his PhD in Neurobiology (1992) at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, and after two years as an HFSP postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK, he joined the University of Haifa in 1995. Since 2006 he is a full professor in both the Sagol Department of Neurobiology and the Department of Psychology. In 2009-2013 He was elected as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa. He was the president of the Israeli Society for Biological Psychiatry (2006 – 2008). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Institute for Psychobiology, member of the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB), and a member of the British-Israeli Science Council. Last year he was elected as the president of the Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) (2015-2017).