Dr. Barkai is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and The School of Brain Sciences and Cognition at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
He joined BGU in 2026 after he completed his postdoctoral training under Prof. Clifford Woolf at Harvard Medical School. He earned his PhD in Neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also completed his undergraduate studies in Physics and Biology.
