Yasmine Meroz has recently been appointed as Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator of her independent laboratory in the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University. She holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (2004), an M.Sc. in Physics (2006), and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (2011) all from Tel Aviv University. Between 2012-2013 she carried out a postdoc in Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and then continued to a postdoc at Harvard University (2013-2017) in Applied Mathematics focusing on memory phenomena of biological systems. In 2017 she got her current position as Senior Lecturer at TAU, where she opened a new laboratory in the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security. During her career she has received a number of fellowships and awards, particularly the Sir Charles Clore Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2013), and the Israeli National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science (2013-2015). She has established herself in the field of Physics of Living Systems, and her current scientific activity focuses on the study of the physical principles underlying fundamental behavioural processes in plants.