Udi Sommer teaches political science at Tel Aviv University as senior lecturer. He is member of the Global Young Academy since 2019 and of the Scientific Council of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center and the Center for the Study of the United States at Tel Aviv University with the Fulbright Program. Udi was Chairperson of the Israel Young Academy from 2018-2019 and initiated the Israeli Cyber Forum at Columbia University, while teaching political science at Columbia from 2016-18. His scholarship has appeared in over 30 peer reviewed journal publications and 3 scholarly books (at Cambridge, SUNY and Palgrave).
Or Rappel-Kroyzer is a PhD student of American political
history at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Center for the
Study of the United States in Tel Aviv University.
He is a 17-year veteran of
the high-tech industry, working in 2 successful startups and later for 7 years
in Brightsource of which he spent 3 years as the R&D manager of a
diversification company, ICS^2, developing solutions for cyber security and
operations improvements for industrial facilities.
He holds a BA (with honors)
in Math and Computer Science from Hebrew university and an MA (with honors) in
American history from Tel-Aviv university. He currently works at Mobileye. He
is the author of 1 patent and 4 pending patents.
Photo: Avigail Piperno-beer
School of Political Science, Government and International
Relations
Zvi Yavetz school of
Historical Studies
Center for the Study of the United States with the Fulbright
Program
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv
Tel Aviv
ISRAEL