
Our Team
Lab Director
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Tomer Shechner
Professor
Prof. Shechner completed his M.A .and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Tel-Aviv University. He completed his first post-doctoral training at the Adler Developmental Psychopathology Institute and second post-doctoral training at the Section of Developmental Affective Neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health under the supervision of Dr. Danny Pine. He completed his clinical internship at Schneider Children’s Medical Center and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Tomer joined the Psychology Department at the University of Haifa as a senior lecturer in March 2013. His major line of research focuses on understanding the interaction between biological, cognitive, behavioral and environmental factors in the development of anxiety disorders.
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Ph.D Students

Gil Shner Livne
Gil received her BA in Psychology and Philosophy at Psyphas BA Honors Program from the University of Haifa. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. In Child Clinical Psychology. During her bachelor’s degree, Gil served as a research assistant in the Developmental Psychopathology lab, focusing on avoidance learning during fear conditioning, and worked at the Center for the Study of Child Development in a study assessing the social development of autistic children. Gil's current research interests focus on understanding and identifying neural markers of pediatric anxiety using EEG. Her future study will examine how neural, emotional, and behavioral mechanisms during fear learning would predict changes in anxiety symptoms during and following therapeutic interventions for pediatric anxiety
MA Students

Yoav Haramati
Research Assistants

Ido Raphael

Romie Livni

Shay Asher

Nadav Barak

Nitsan Rosenfeld

Ido Shitrit

Michal Oren

Yoav Haramati

Nir Orpaz

Ori Arpaly
