Dr. Eilam is a professor of zoology at Tel-Aviv University, where he received a career award from the Council for Higher Education in Israel and currently heads the laboratory for studies of human and animal behavior. His main expertize is in the fine-grained analysis of behavior, focusing on (i) motor routines and habits in both normal and pathologic behavior; (ii) the impact of the physical and the social environments on spatial behavior in humans and non-humans; and (iii) dynamics of predator–prey interactions. He also studies rituals and stereotypies, cultural transmission, and group formation. He has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and teaches Animal Cognition, Animal Behavior, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, and Animal Locomotion.