Associate Professor of Anatomy
College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University
Long Island University, College of Veterinary Medicine
I received my B.Sc. in animal science and my Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM), from The Hebrew University (Rehovot, Israel). For the next 8 years I worked in several small animal clinics while I pursued my PhD. (bone biomechanics) and my teaching certificate (biology teacher for high schools), from the Weizmann institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel). During my Post-doctoral research I held a joined position at Harvard University, The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology (Cambridge, MA) and The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany). There, I did research on extinct hominins bipedal locomotion and its manifestation in the structure of the ankle's trabecular bone. In 2012, I became a teaching fellow at Harvard University and later I accepted a lecturer position. I taught the labs for “Life Science 2” (anatomy and physiology) and my own course - “Bone Biology and Biomechanics”. In August 2013, I accepted an Assistant Professor position at Winthrop University (Rock Hill, SC). At Winthrop I taught “Human Anatomy” (lectures and labs), “The Biology of Bone” (lectures and labs), and other undergraduate and graduate courses (both for Biology and non-Biology majors), while continuing my research in Bone Biomechanics. In January 2019, I accepted an Associate Professor position at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Long Island University (Brookville, NY). Currently I’m teaching mostly veterinary anatomy and doing research on bone structure-function relationship using 3D printing, computer simulations and mechanical testing.
