Meital Reches is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction} in 2007 from the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology,Tel Aviv University. In 2007-2010,she was an EMBO and a HFSP postdoctoral research fellow at the Chemistry Department,Harvard University. Prof. Reches joined the Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a faculty member in October 2010. Her research focuses on understanding,controlling and developing biomolecular self-assembly processes and generating new functional materials. Specifically,her group studies these biomolecular assemblies at the interface with inorganic surfaces.