Team
Prof. Tamir Sheafer
Rector, The Hebrew University of JerusalemProfessor at the Department of Political ScienceProfessor at the Department of Communication and JournalismTamir Sheafer's research focuses on actor-centered perspectives in political communication, such as information processing and personalization; on the role of political value proximity between actors; on political narratives; and on developing new methods for automated textual analysis based on a combination of topic modelling, deep learning and expert coding.
Prof. Shaul Shenhav
Professor, the Department of Political ScienceShaul R. Shenhav is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the incumbent of the Herbert Samuel Chair in Political Science.
Read MoreHe is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences for Engagement and Impact and the Director of the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies. His research interests include political discourse, political narratives, rhetoric, textual analysis, and Israeli politics.Read Less
Yael R. Kaplan
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa
Yael Rivka Kaplan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa. Yael’s research interests include discourse, identities, and values, and her research examines how these influence political behaviors, sense of representation, and public opinion. In her work, Yael utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods, including text and network analysis.
Dror Markus
PhD student at the Department of Political Science
Dror Markus completed his PhD in Political Science at the Hebrew University, and is currently in a post-doc position at the University of Zurich. His doctoral research examined the structures and dynamics of "Media Storms" using computational methods.
Guy Mor-Lan
PhD student at the Department of Political Science
Guy Mor-Lan is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interests include machine learning applications in computational social science and the study of political polarization, as well as natural language processing for Hebrew and spoken Arabic.
Vered Porzycki
PhD student at the Department of Political Science
Vered Porzycki is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main research interests are gender, political discourse analysis and political representation.
Gal Ron
PhD student at the Political Science Department
Gal Ron is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is interested in populist rhetoric, the role of sentiments in political discourse, and symbolic representation.
Effi Levi
PhD candidate at the Institute of Computer Science
Effi Levi is a PhD candidate in computer science and a consultant in the fields of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. His main research interests are structured prediction in NLP and Hebrew language processing.