Ziv Ben-Zion is assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Haifa and adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He directs the Ben-Zion Resilience & Recovery Lab, which studies the neurocognitive mechanisms of stress, trauma, resilience and recovery using longitudinal cohorts, neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and advanced statistical and computational modeling. His recent work also examines artificial-intelligence safety in mental health contexts, including the risks and safeguards needed for emotionally responsive and increasingly agentic AI systems.
Ben-Zion earned his B.Sc. in biology, psychology and neuroscience and his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Tel Aviv University.