Prof. Erel Levine got his PhD in theoretical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, working on collective phenomena in systems far from equilibrium. He did his postdoctoral research at the NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, working on experimental and theoretical models of biological regulation. Since 2010 he headed the quantitative system biology lab at the physics department and Center for Systems Biology at Harvard, where his research focused on developing computational, experimental and theoretical approaches to study the dynamics of response to biotic and abiotic threats from the molecular scale to the organismal level. Recently he joined the budding department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University to lead a new program in systems bioengineering. Prof. Levine is interested in developing technologies and methodologies for promoting fact-based thinking and data-driven conclusion.