Dr. Liad Mudrik – journalist and researcher at the School of Psychological Science and the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Liad Mudrik, a highly awarded young researcher, combines frontline brain research with age-old philosophical questions to understand the workings of human consciousness and its many mysteries.

Mudrik began her academic career as a student of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel-Aviv University and earned a rare double Ph.D., one in neuroscience and the other in philosophy from the same institution. She then went on to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology.

In 2015, she began her appointment as a faculty member in Tel Aviv University’s School of Psychological Science and the Sagol School of Neuroscience.

Dr. Liad Mudrik has been a journalist in the IDF radio station ‘Galei Tzahal’ for more than 15 years, hosting and editing news programs as well as documentaries. She now hosts the “Broadcasted University” program