Tom Schonberg

Prof. Tom Schonberg started his academic path in the unique Interdisciplinary program at Tel Aviv University, leading directly to a Masters Degree. He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University with Co-supervision from Caltech, in 2010 on the topic of reinforcement learning in the human brain using functional MRI. In his post-doctoral research, he studied risky decision making and then behavioral change. Tom opened his lab at Tel Aviv University in October 2014, where he is now an Associate Professor in the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Faculty for Life Science and the Sagol School of Neuroscience. Tom's lab studies the neural basis of behavior change and is interested in the process of value construction in value-based decision making. Research tools in the lab include structural and functional MRI, eye tracking, sports bracelets, computational decision-making models and virtual reality. Since October 2021, Tom is the director of a Minerva center for the study of human intelligence in immersive, augmented and mixed realities and a co-director and founder of TAU XR. Tom's is committed to the principles of open and new science.