2 Strauss Asher Y.
Dr. Asher Strauss is a licensed clinical psychologist and lecturer in the School of Behavioral Sciences & Psychology. Dr. Strauss completed his three degrees in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research mainly focuses on expanding cognitive and behavioral models and interventions for anxiety and depression disorders and in particular obsessive-compulsive disorders. He completed his clinical internship at the Eitanim psychiatric hospital and at Cognetica – the Israeli center for cognitive behavioral therapy.
Dr. Strauss has a broad interest in measuring psychotherapy processes and results and implementing research-based interventions and measurements among the general public. His teaching areas in the psychology department include statistics, quantitative research methods and cognitive behavioral therapy. In a private clinic in Jerusalem, Dr. Strauss provides counseling and individualized research based treatment.
2 Atia Elad
Dr. Elad Etia, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Pure Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University, a Master’s degree in Mathematics (with a research focus on Algebraic Topology) from Bar-Ilan University, and a Doctorate in Mathematics (with a research focus on Convex Geometry) from Bar-Ilan University.
An esteemed lecturer who teaches at various academic institutions, Dr. Atia primarily oversees the courses in Discrete Mathematics within the Faculty of Computer Science at the College.
2 Avrahami Gil
Dr. Avrahami is a high-tech entrepreneur, co-founder of a startup in the field of business intelligence and held senior management positions in software companies in Israel and abroad.
Gil’s doctoral research at Ben-Gurion University was in the field of developing machine learning methodologies for the early detection of cyber attacks.
Areas of expertise:
Data science, data mining, machine learning, business intelligence, information systems, cyber attacks detection.
2 Armoni Adi
1 Patal Herzel
2 Richter Ganit
Dr. Richter’s areas of research interest include hedonic information systems from a managerial, educational, social, and business perspective. Among the main themes of her research are mechanisms of rewards and incentives for motivation, and how gamification can be used in novel contexts, such as interpreting complex legal documents.
Dr. Richter has won several prizes, best paper awards, and honors; including from the University of Oxford e-Research Centre, the University of Minneapolis, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
2 Cohen Avinoam
Avinoam Cohen is a lecturer at the Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management, Israel. His research studies interplays of law, institutions and social policy, particularly in the contexts of migration governance and regulation, welfare, and human rights litigation.
Avinoam holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law and LLB (cum laude) in Law and History from the Hebrew University. At the College of Management, he led the Concord International Law and Human Rights Clinic (2005 – 2020) and headed the Interdisciplinary Laureate Program of the College (2017 – 2021). He was an attorney at J. Weinroth & Co., Clerked for Hon. Mishael Cheshin at the Israeli Supreme Court, and was a dynamic group facilitator at the education department of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
Currently, Avinoam directs the excellence programs at the Faculty of Law and teaches and instructs a variety of courses, seminars and research workshops in the fields of Legal Methods and Research, Human Rights and Public International Law. In addition, he instructs the MA research colloquium of the MUSA program, and is a core faculty of the Global Migration and Policy MA program at TAU, teaching comparative migration and citizenship regimes.
1 Ellis Shmuel
Shmuel Ellis is a (full) professor of social psychology and organizational behavior at the College of Management Academic Studies.
He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1985. During the years 1988-2015 he was on the faculty of the Coller (formerly, Recanati) Graduate School of Management and for several years served as the Head of the Department of Management and the Academic Director of the Organizational Consulting Program. From 1990 to 1992 he was visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. During the years 2015-2017 he was the head of the Department of Psychology, College of Management Academic Studies and from 2016 to 2017 he was also the Vice President for Academic Affairs (Rector) of the College.
His main areas of interest are reflection interventions and learning from successes vs. failures, organizational genealogies, entrepreneurship, imprinting and knowledge transmission. Shmuel Ellis has published in top-tier journals such as Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Judgment and Decision Making and Current Directions in Psychological Science.
1 Muhammad Asali
Professor Muhammad Asali’s research and teaching interests include applied microeconomics, labor economics, statistics, econometrics, and time series econometrics. Asali served as a Professor of Economics and the Head of Graduate Studies at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. He is also a research fellow at IZA, the institute of labor economics in Bonn, Germany. At SIPA of Columbia University he is the professor for the MPA in Economic Policy Management program’s Microeconomics.
Asali received his BA in Accounting and Economics and his MA in Economics, all with distinction, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2008.
Muhammad Asali previously held visiting professorships at Columbia University, at New York University, and at Union College. His research has appeared in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics Letters, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, and Defence and Peace Economics, among others.
Personal Web Page: https://sites.google.com/site/muhammadasali/
2 Balzam Adva
Dr. Adva Balzam is a lecturer and researcher in media, a psychologist and non-fictional TV creator.
