Yuval won the grant for his research on the brain mechanism of creative search.
The European Research Council is a prestigious grant designed to enable researchers to fulfill their research goals as well as promote fruitful collaborations and assist in the first stages of technology commercialization.
Along with Yuval, five other researchers from the university won the grant: Prof. Inbal Goshen, from the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Neuroscience; Prof. Nir Bar-Gil, from the Department of Applied Physics; Dr. Yaniv Alkovi, from the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research; Dr. Sheila Rosenwasser, from the Faculty of Agriculture; Prof. Eil Ben Zvi, from the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research
