I received my MSc in environmental studies at Tel Aviv University, followed by a PhD in biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science focusing on molecular aspects of plant environment interactions. During my Postdoc at the MPI for Plant Molecular Physiology, I specialized in the field of metabolomics and metabolic natural variance. In the past seven years at Ben Gurion University, I set up the laboratory for metabolomics to investigate seed metabolism and metabolic stress response in crops. Since 2009 the my lab is leading several projects in desert viticulture and grape metabolism.