Meriav Zehavi is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her research interests lie in the fields of kernelization, parameterized algorithms and parameterized complexity, computational geometry, approximation algorithms, computational social choice, and bioinformatics. In the Spring of 2016, she has been hosted by the Simons Institute at Berkley, where she has been researching the topic of Algorithmic Challenges in Genomics. See also her website here