Amir Mano

Neuroscientist · Musician

Studying how music changes the brain PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience · Tel Aviv University

CV

A summary of my academic path, teaching, and research experience.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience — Tel Aviv University, Sagol School of Neuroscience (2023–Present)
  • M.Sc. in Computational Neuroscience — Tel Aviv University, summa cum laude (2021–2023)
  • B.Sc. in Biology & Linguistics, Neuroscience emphasis — Tel Aviv University, summa cum laude (2018–2021)

Prof. Yaniv Assaf has supervised my research since my B.Sc. project in 2020, through the M.Sc. and now the Ph.D.

Awards & Presentations

  • Best Poster Presentation Award, Israeli Pre-OHBM & ISMRM Conference (2026)
  • Minducate Science of Learning and Innovation Center Scholarship (2023–2025)
  • Naturalistic fMRI and Instrument-Specific Neural Synchronization in Musicians — Oral Presentation & Poster, OHBM Annual Meeting, Bordeaux (2026)
  • Grey Matter Plasticity Induced by Learning a Musical Instrument — Poster, CRCNS & OHBM (2023)

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, Tel Aviv University (2020–Present) — Neuroanatomy lab instructor; MATLAB Programming for Neuroscience; Intro to Neuroscience (MOOC); Intro to Linguistics
  • Guest Lecturer, Ono Academic College (2022–2024) — imaging methods in Neurophysiology

Earlier Research

  • Research Assistant, Prof. Yossi Yovel's Lab, School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University (2019–2021) — acoustic signal processing of bat recordings; MRI analysis of bat scans (DTI, rs-fMRI)

Languages

  • Hebrew — Native
  • English — Fluent
  • Spanish, Russian — Conversational