Ilan Dinstein, PhD
Ilan is Professor of Psychology at BGU and an adjunct faculty member in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Department. He is the founding director of the Azrieli National Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research.
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Current students
Einat Waizbard
Einat is a Postdoc in the lab and affiliated researcher at the Azrieli National Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research. She is a clinical Psychologist focused on studying autism diagnosis and developmental trajectories.
Marina Eni
Marina is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering who is studying vocalizations of young children with ASD using speech processing algorithms.
Moran Bachrach
Moran is a PhD student in Psychology who is studying the impact of special vs. mainstream educational settings on the development of ASD children
Liora Manelis-Baram
Liora is a PhD student in Psychology who is studying facial expressions in young children with ASD using computer vision techniques
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Mihca Hacohen
Micha is an PhD student in neurosciences who is studying the relationship between brain activity and sleep problems in children and adolescents with ASD
Tanya Nitzan
Tanya is a PhD student in Psychology who is testing the efficacy of the Social ABCs parent mediated intervention program for young children with ASD
Tal Barami
Tal is a PhD student in computer science who is studying stereotypical movements in young children with ASD using computer vision techniques
Alona Molcho-Haimovitch
Alona is a PhD student in Psychology who is testing the effectiveness of a behavioral sleep intervention program for young children with ASD
Previous students
Yaniv Paz
PhD Student
Yaniv finished his PhD in the lab in 2022. He performed a series of EEG studies regarding neural variability in adults with ASD. This included multiple timepoints to examine the reliability of findings over time.
Ayelet Arazi
PhD Student
Ayelet completed her PhD in the lab in 2020. She studied the relationship between trial-by-trial variability and perceptual abilities in tasks with different attention loads. Ayelet is now a postdoc in the lab of Tobias Donner at the University Medical Center of Hamburg.
Nitzan Gabbay
MA Student
Nitzan completed her MA in the lab in 2021. She examined the impact of earlier diagnosis on the outcome of 1-6 year old children with ASD using longitudinal data collected at the National Autism Research Center of Israel.
Gal Eylon
MA Student
Gal completed her MA in the lab in 2022. She performed a series of sleep studies with wearable devices and EEG, characterizing sleep disturbances in young autistic children recorded over multiple days at home.
Michal Ilan
PhD Student
Michal completed her PhD in the lab in 2021. She studied the impact of early diagnosis and educational placement on the outcomes of young children with ASD. Michal is now the clinical director of the Azrieli National Centre for Autism Research.
Shlomi Haar
PhD Student
Shlomi completed his PhD in the lab in 2017. He performed fMRI studies about cortical motor control, visuomotor adaptation, and the characterization of trial-by-trial neural variability in the motor system. Shlomi is now a research fellow at the Brain Sciences Department in the Imperial College of London.
Eden Daniel
MA Student
Edan finished her MA in the lab in 2020. She performed MEG and EEG studies that examined the characteristics of trial-by-trial neural variability and their relationship with perceptual abilities of typically developing adults. Edan is now a PhD student at Princeton University.
Michal Ashtamker
MA Student
Michal completed her MA in Developmental Psychology in 2024. She studied the quality of parental relationships in families with autistic children.
Noa Fingher
PhD Student
Noa completed her PhD in the lab in 2020. She performed DTI studies using data collected from young children with and without ASD in San Diego. In addition, she studied the relationship between language abilities and support requirements of young children with ASD.
Gil Gonen Yaacovi
Postdoc
Gil completed her postdoc in the lab in 2015. She performed several EEG studies about the impact of trial-by-trial neural variability on cognitive abilities in individuals with and without ADHD.
Inbar Avni
MA Student
Inbar completed her MA in the lab in 2019. She performed a series of eye tracking studies where she examined the social preferences and oculomotor control of young children with ASD as they observed different movies and salient targets. Inbar is now a Postdoc at Pittsburgh University.
Laila Igbaria
MA Student
Laila completed her MA in Developmental Psychology in 2024. She studied the impact of socio-economic factors on the age of diagnosis and intervention outcomes in children with autism.