Dr. Liraz Chai is an assistant professor and a senior lecturer in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University since 2014. She holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Tel Aviv University. She got her M.Sc. degree in 2000 and PhD in 2007, both in chemistry and from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Following a short postdoctoral study at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2008), she was a postdoctoral Rothschild fellow in the department of microbiology and immunology at Harvard Medical School (2009-2013).