Culture & Community

Dr. Alexandra Tayar: Advancing Women in Science

Dr. Alexandra Tayar is a physicist in the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science and runs a multidisciplinary, all-women lab focused on understanding the self-assembly of active, biologically inspired materials. Here she discusses her work with the office of Advancing Women in Science and Gender Equality, the ways in which the program offers support to students, and how it has helped her in her own career.