Oren Harman

Harman studied history and biology at Hebrew University, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Between 2008-2021 he served as Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University[2] and is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, where he hosts the "Talking About Science in the 21st Century" public lecture series.

Harman has been a frequent contributor to The New Republic,[3] and Haaretz Magazine, and is the co-creator, with Yanay Ofran and Ido Bahat, of the television documentary series "Did Herzl Really Say That?

The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard University Press, 2004) tells the story of the English scientist Cyril Dean Darlington, who tried to use biology to understand human history and culture, and whose ideas foreshowed much of the influential field of evolvability.

Harman's books have been translated into languages including Polish, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, and Malayalam.