Jeff Camhi

Jeff Camhi was born in New York City; he received his BA and his PhD in biology, from Tufts and Harvard, respectively. he then taught at Cornell for 15 years, becoming a full professor in 1980. Following a sabbatical year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he accepted a job offer and moved with his family to Israel. He has been a full professor at the Hebrew University for the past 30 years. For most of his career, his field of research has been the neural basis of animal behavior. At about the time of the new millennium, his long-term interest in public education was re-kindled. Dr. Camhi is now Emeritus Professor, Life Sciences Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Founding Director, Nature Park & Galleries, a unique “open-campus museum” of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose mission is sharing a broad range of academic ideas with a broad public.