| Naomi Habib | |
| Native Name: | נעמי חביב |
| Native Name Lang: | he |
| Fields: | Computational neuroscience |
| Workplaces: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Alma Mater: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Nir Friedman Hanah Margalit |
Naomi Habib is an Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience. She has worked as the Goren-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2018.
Habib earned a Ph.D. in computational biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012.[1] Her doctoral advisers were Nir Friedman and Hanah Margalit.[2] Her dissertation was titled Computational Comparative Study of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes. She conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute under Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev. She was researching the development of a single nucleus RNA-sequencing technology.
Habib is a computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience.[3] She specializes in computational biology, genomics, and genome engineering. In August 2018, she returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the Gorem-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. Her research includes Alzheimer's disease pathology.[4]