Dana Rubi Levy.

Dana Rubi Levy

Senior postdoctoral fellow
Harvard Medical School

Dana Rubi Levy is a senior postdoctoral fellow in the neurobiology department at Harvard Medical School. Her research combines large-scale tracking of spontaneous behavior with computational modeling to reveal how aging, biological sex and individuality shape brain and behavior across the lifespan.

Levy earned her B.Sc. in cognitive science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in neuroscience at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she investigated the sensory and neural mechanisms underlying reproductive and social responses.

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