Prof. Moshe Bar from Harvard University, a world-renowned expert in brain research in the cognitive field, has been appointed to head the Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University * He will replace Prof. Moshe Ables who founded the center and headed it for 9 years. Ables will continue his scientific work at the center
Prof. Moshe Bar, a 46-year-old returning scientist from Harvard University, was appointed head of the Leslie and Susie Gonda (Goldschmid) Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University. He replaces Prof. Moshe Ables who founded the center and headed it for 9 years.
Prof. Bar is one of the world's foremost researchers in the field of neuroscience in cognitive contexts, such as memory, recognition, prediction, etc. He completed his first degree in biomedical engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1988. He served six years in the Israeli Air Force. He obtained a master's degree in computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute in 1992-94 and a doctorate in the field of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Southern California in the USA and graduated with honors. He did his post-doctorate at the Department of Psychology at the prestigious Harvard University and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. From here he advanced with impressive speed in his academic career and published dozens of articles. Among the positions he held - professor of radiology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Prof. Barr and his family have been in the US for the past 17 years.
Prof. Moshe Bar said that he finally decided to accept the offer to head the center after attending a conference where the center's young students presented their research. "I was very impressed with them that they do not fall short of the best students at Harvard." Prof. Barr stated that he intends to continue to develop the center through additional collaborations that Prof. Abels started, as well as to expand additional technological capabilities to enable research that will help decipher more and more of the brain's consciences, large parts of which have not yet been deciphered, especially those related to the causation of diseases. And in this context he emphasized that he intends to put emphasis on translating the basic research into useful and applied research in the fields of psychiatry when the center will be more open to clinicians for the treatment of various syndromes and diseases such as depression, schizophrenia (split), autism, Asperger's, Alzheimer's, attention disorders and more.
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And he is only 46 years old