Prof. Yossi Yovel

Prof. Yovel’s research combines biology with technology.

His work on bat bio-sonar has driven the development of a bat-like autonomous robot that navigates autonomously using sound only, as well as several other bio-mimetic applications in precision agriculture (two of which were recently patentized). His work on bats drove the development of miniature GPS sensors that allow tracking the smallest animals ever tracked before. His work on bats’ use of bio-sonar for navigation in the field in parallel to using MRI to study the bats’ brain in the lab made him establish a new field which he terms Neuro-Ecology which brings together ideas from Neuroscience and Ecology.