Research Labs - The Boris Mints Institute

Climate & Energy Lab

Our experts from diverse disciplines work together to confront urgent climate change challenges and ensure sustainable development in the energy field; our research focuses on sustainable development through renewable, hydrogen, and energy, investigating the various applications of water, planning food security in times of uncertainty and climate crisis, and exploring the nuances of future cities. Our work is geared towards ensuring a greener future for future generations.

Prof. Hadas Mamane

Head of the Environmental Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering

Prof. Asher Tishler

Professor Emeritus, Coller School of Management

Prof. Vered Blass

Department of Environmental Studies

Human Development Lab

We collaborate with diverse organizations and professionals to address global challenges related to human well-being and socio-economic progress. Our objective is to develop policy solutions for a more balanced and capable society through rigorous, interdisciplinary research and evidence-based analysis that addresses demography, conflict resolution, inequality, and the future of labor.

Prof. Isaac Sasson

Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Prof. Adriana Kemp

Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Dr. Nimrod Rosler

Department of Public Policy

Institutions Lab

We live in a rapidly changing world where trust in government is decreasing, resulting in the instability of institutions and presenting new and complex challenges for society. This field of research focuses on democratic, economic, and global institutions with a strategic perspective of fostering geopolitical collaborations essential for addressing prosperity on multiple levels.

Prof. Itai Sened

Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences & Head of BMI

Conflict Resolution Lab

In collaboration with the Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Management.

The Boris Mints Institute Conflict Resolution Lab engages in several research projects, trying to bring new insight to the field of conflict resolution and learn from the success and failure stories of the past in order to build a toolbox for facing the conflicts of the future.

Dr. Sami Miaari

Lab Head

Faculty of Social Sciences, TAU

Dr. Nimrod Rosler

Researcher

Department of Public Policy

Dr. ‪Boaz Hameiri

Researcher

Department of Public Policy and The Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program, TAU

Dr. Nadine Knab

Researcher

Department of Public Policy and The Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program, TAU

Gal Factor

BMI Fellow (MA)

Nora Meissner

BMI Fellow (PhD)

Demography Lab

An important global challenge which the world is facing is Demography. BMI sees the global demographic challenges as a crucial aspect in forming policy, thus supports a new research lab in this subject.

Prof. Isaac Sasson

Lab Head

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, TAU

Shayna Bernstein

BMI Fellow (Postdoctoral)

Atalia Regev

BMI Fellow (MA)

Inequality Lab

The Boris Mints Institute Inequality Lab looks into the institutional, political and economic dimensions of inequality and studies the social mobility and prospects of different social groups.

Prof. Itai Sened

Lab Head

Head of BMI, Founding Chair School of Social and Policy Studies at TAU and Dean of the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr. Nechumi Yaffe

Researcher

Department of Public Policy, TAU

Dr. Oren Danieli

Researcher

School of Economics, TAU

Eve Guterman

BMI Fellow (PhD)

Stav Cohen

BMI Fellow (MA)

Sustainable Development Lab

The Boris Mints Institute Sustainable Development lab, together with Dr. Ram Fishman’s Nitsan lab, explores broad issues of Sustainable Development, with particular emphasis on developing countries, global food security, and sustainable agriculture. The lab contains a strong empirical field component, and is taking place in multiple locations in Africa and South Asia.

Prof. Ram Fishman

Lab Head

Department of Public Policy

Yalon Perlman. MA

Graduated BMI Fellow