Yitzhak Tzachi Pilpel PhD

Prof. Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel was awarded a BSc in biology from Tel Aviv University (1993), and a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1999). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Genetics and Lipper Center for Computational Genetics. He joined the Weizmann Institute faculty in 2003 and in 2018 became the Director of the Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology. He became head of the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute and later also Head of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Humanities in 2019. He is the incumbent of the Ben May Professorial Chair.

Prof. Pilpel specializes in systems biology, genomics, and evolution. He develops computational tools and theoretical models to analyze complex networks within cells and the evolutionary mechanisms that created them. In parallel, he and his laboratory team apply systems biology and genomics experimental strategies to the study of genetic circuits that process and transmit information in cells.