Prof. Yuval Nir
Short Bio

Prof. Nir is a full Professor of physiology, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering at Tel Aviv University, and the director of the Sagol Brain Institute at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, the largest clinically-oriented neuroscience research institute in Israel. 

Prof. Nir’s resaerch focuses on the neuroscience of sleep. He pursued direct M.Sc. in Computer Science through the TAU interdisciplinary Lautman program for outstanding students, 
proceeded to a Ph.D. in neurobiology  at the Weizmann Institute (with Rafael Malach), and then to a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, training in sleep research. 

In 2012, Prof. Nir set up his own lab at Tel Aviv University: http://yuvalnirlab.com. 

Prof. Nir has published 56 articles (cited over 10,000 times to date, including in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience), 4 book chapters, and 3 patents. 

Prof. Nir won several awards for his research including an ERC grant on sleep and memory and the Sieratzki and Adelis prizes for neuroscience. Nir’s research combines human and rodent models to investigate sleep and its relation to cognition: 
sleep electrophysiology and sleep functions, the neuronal basis of disconnection from the 
external environment during sleep, arousal-promoting neuromodulation and noradrenaline, how sleep promotes learning and memory, and how sleep can be used to improve medical diagnosis in neurological and psychiatric disorders.  

Areas of interest & scientific knowledge

Gray School of Medical Sciences

  • Neuroscience and Brain Disorders
  • Human Genetics and Computational Medicine
Selected Publications
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