Naomi Habib

Naomi Habib (Hebrew: נעמי חביב) is an Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience. She has worked as the Goren-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2018.

Naomi Habib
נעמי חביב
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientific career
FieldsComputational neuroscience
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisorNir Friedman
Hanah Margalit

Life

Habib earned a Ph.D. in computational biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012.[1] Her doctoral advisers were Nir Friedman and Hanah Margalit.[2][1] Her dissertation was titled Computational Comparative Study of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes.[1] She conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute under Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev.[2] She was researching the development of a single nucleus RNA-sequencing technology.[2]

Habib is a computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience.[3] She specializes in computational biology, genomics, and genome engineering.[2] In August 2018, she returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the Gorem-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences.[2][3] Her research includes Alzheimer's disease pathology.[4]

References
  1. Habib, Naomi. Computational Comparative Study of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Ph.D. thesis). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. OCLC 875077561.
  2. "Naomi Habib". International Society of Neuroimmunology. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  3. "Naomi Habib Lab". Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. "Dr. Naomi Habib,". www.thescientistschannel.com. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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