Nachum Ulanovsky, Ph.D.

Nachum Ulanovsky is professor of neuroscience and head of the Zuckerman Center for Learning, Memory & Cognition at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is an elected International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ulanovsky studies the hippocampal formation and prefrontal cortex, and investigates the neural codes that underlie complex natural behaviors such as navigation and sociality. His group has developed novel wireless-electrophysiology devices that have enabled the discovery of 3D place-cells, 3D head-direction cells and 3D grid cells in flying bats, as well as social place-cells – neurons which represent the identities, sex, hierarchy and social affiliation of other individuals, in a social group. He studies bats flying in indoor and 0utdoor environments indoors during navigation and social interactions.