I received my B.A. degree in Psychology at Tel-Aviv University in 1996 and Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Northeastern University in 2005 and MS in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard-MIT at 2008. After that, I held a postdoctoral fellowship in the division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and I am currently a Research Data Analyst at the Cambridge Health Alliance Division on Addictions, and an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Research interests: My background is social psychology, specifically social cognition. I am interested in health communication and investigating various factors (including individual tailoring) that influence motivation,compliance and information elaboration. In general, in my research work my goal is to apply psychological theories to facilitate patients' compliance and motivation and to promote behavioral changes. I am designing and programming online experiments to investigate effective ways to exploit computer technologies for health behavioral interventions.