Leading Faculty, Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center Head of the Research Authority at the Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center and Head of the Genetics of Human Movement and Physical Activity Laboratory. A graduate of the third cohort of the Mandel Program for Academic Leadership in Teacher Training. Researcher and lecturer on the relationship between environment and heredity in movement and physical activity. She holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD from the Technion, and completed her post-doctorate at UBC in Canada. Co-founder of the ROTEM Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning at the Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center. In her role as Head of the Research Authority, she oversees diverse studies in the field of education, discovering new layers of environmental and hereditary relationships. She views the research guidance of “Creating Our Future” as an opportunity to lead research that invites thinking beyond familiar boundaries and as a partnership in an educational endeavor that seeks to plant seeds of hope.

Sigalbz@l-w.ac.il