Prof. Asya Rolls

Education:

BsC (1999) and MsC (2001)- Technion, Israel Institute of Technology- Life Sciences

PhD (2007)– Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neuroscience

Advisors: Prof. Michal Schwartz and Prof. Ofer Lider

Subject: How the immune system controls the brain and its plasticity

Postdoctoral fellow– Stanford University, CA- Department of Psychiatry

Advisors: Prof. Luis de Lecea and Prof. Craig Heller

Subject: Sleep and memory

Since Oct 2012 – PI- Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Rappaport Medical school

Subject: How the brain controls immunity (the opposite of my PhD)

Major awards and grants:

• HHMI-Welcome trust international scholar
• ERC starting and consolidator grant