People

Principal Investigator

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Amit Birenboim

Dr. Amit Birenboim is a senior lecturer at the department of geography and the Center for Urban Innovation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and head of the Urban Vitality Lab.

Post Doctorals

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Lihi Golan

Lihi Golan is a Postdoc researcher at the Urban Vitality Lab at the Center for Urban Innovation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her B.A. degree in Geography and Environmental Development at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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Jonatan Almagor

Dr. Jonatan Almagor is a postdoc researcher at the Urban Vitality Lab. He is currently involved in lab projects on mobility and walkability in the city.

Doctoral Students

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Alex (Li Min) Wang

Alex (Li Min) Wang is a PhD student at the Urban Vitality Lab. She completed her Bachelor of Science (BSc) at McMaster University in Canada where her focuses were field ecology and psychology.
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Amnon Franco

Amnon Franco is a PhD student at the Urban Vitality Lab. He completed his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) at Tel Aviv university in geography and history of the Middle East. He has a Masters from the department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv university.

Masters Students

Rachel Shane

Rachel Shane

Rachel Shane is a Research Assistant at the Urban Vitality Lab. Currently she is a B.A. student in geography at the Hebrew University of Jeursalem. She is interested in the effects of the surrounding environment on health, mainly in the context of sports activities.
Queenie Ng

Queenie Ng

Queenie Ng is a master's student at the Urban Vitality Lab, in the Smart Cities and Urban Informatics program. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Japan, where she studied Environmental Design, with a focus on architecture and urban planning.
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Lihi Yalin

Lihi Yalin is a master's student at the Urban Vitality Lab in the program of Smart Cities and Urban Informatics. She works as mapping validator at Via transportation and teaches Architecture at Bezalel Academy of art and design in Jerusalem where she also graduated from.

Interns

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Ronnie Shashoua

Rose Hollander is a data analysis research assistant in the Urban Vitality Lab. She is a undergraduate student in Computer Sciences at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed an internship on data analysis for the SURREAL project in the summer of 2023. 
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Rose Hollander

Rose Hollander is a research assistant in the Urban Vitality Lab. She is a B.A. student in mathematics and English literature at Tufts University in the United States. In the summer of 2023, she worked on experiments involving virtual reality for her internship.