Eva Jablonka is a professor at the Cohn Institute for the History of Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. Jablonka's research interests span heredity, epigenetics, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, developmental biology, language and cultural evolution, history of genetics, and the philosophy of science. She was awarded a BSc in Biology in 1976 and an MSc in Microbiology in 1980, both from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, followed by a PhD in Genetics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1988.