Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion, a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at Yale University in 2021-2022,  was a recent winner of two prestigious awards as a new faculty member at the University of Haifa; the Council for Higher Education’s Alon Fellowship and the Israel Science Foundation’s Beresheet Program. These awards will allow Ben-Zion to establish the Resilience and Recovery Laboratory at the School of Public Health at the University of Haifa, where he will continue to lead groundbreaking research on neural mechanisms of resilience and vulnerability to stress and trauma, more important than ever in the context of national challenges.

As a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health in the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa Ben-Zion explores the neurocognitive mechanisms of stress vulnerability and resilience, with the long-term goal of developing personalized treatments for stress- and anxiety-related disorders, particularly PTSD. His multidisciplinary approach integrates biology, psychology, and neuroscience, using behavioral, cognitive, physiological, and neural responses to naturalistic experimental manipulations in both healthy and clinical populations.