Rotem Botvinik-Nezerr, Ph.D.

Rotem Botvinik-Nezer is a postdoc at the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, in Tor Wager’s lab. She will open her lab at the Psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the summer of 2024. Her research focuses on the formation and modification of beliefs and expectations, and their effects on physiological, mental, and social processes, in the placebo effect and beyond. She uses computational, behavioral, and neuroimaging tools to study these processes.
Rotem completed her B.Sc. in Psychology and Biology with emphasis on neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She then completed the direct Ph.D. tract at Sagol School of Neuroscience (Tel Aviv University), co-advised by Prof. Tom Schonberg and Prof. Yaniv Assaf. Her Ph.D. focused on the neural mechanisms of preference change in the short and in the long term. She is also very active in promoting open science. Rotem moved to the USA with her family in 2019. Among other things, Rotem loves playing basketball, diving, and hiking. Thanks to her time in beautiful New Hampshire, she now also enjoys skiing and watching animals in her backyard, from black bears searching for food to cardinals learning to fly.