- Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering; Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Tamir Tuller is a Full Professor at Tel Aviv University, where he heads the Laboratory of Computational Systems and Synthetic Biology. He holds an exceptionally broad academic background, with four BSc degrees, two MSc degrees, and two PhDs spanning electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, medicine, and biology. Before joining Tel Aviv University, he was a Koshland Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the faculties of Mathematics and Molecular Genetics.
Dr. Tuller’s research focuses on developing computational approaches for modeling and engineering gene expression for biotechnological and medical applications. He is the author of more than 175 peer-reviewed scientific articles in leading journals, alongside hundreds of conference papers, abstracts, book chapters, and patents. He also has extensive experience as a co-founder and collaborator of biotechnology companies where models developed in his laboratory are applied to practical industrial challenges.
Dr. Tuller holds the Chair in Computational Synthetic Biology, is co-founder and inaugural president of the Israeli Synthetic Biology Society, a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a recipient of the Juludan Prize.