Amit Birenboim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Center for Urban Innovation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also heads the Urban Vitality Lab. He completed his Ph.D. in 2016 at the Hebrew University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Healthy Urban Living research group at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. From 2018 to 2021, he served as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Birenboim’s research focuses on human spatial behavior across various domains, including health, mobility and transportation, technological impact, leisure, and tourism. Researchers in his lab develop and apply state-of-the-art tools for accurately measuring human interactions with both physical and digital environments. These tools include portable sensors, location-tracking technologies, and virtual and augmented reality systems. The lab's studies are interdisciplinary in nature and often involve collaborations with Israeli and international scholars from diverse academic fields.