Dr. Noam Brenner is a political scientist and urban scholar whose work bridges citizen science, science education, and democratic governance. He is a Research Associate at the Technion and the Hebrew University, and a Senior Researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research. His research agenda at the Technion focuses on developing participatory methods that enable residents, students, and professionals to generate knowledge about their lived environments, particularly in divided, diverse, and crisis-affected cities and regions. Through projects combining surveys, qualitative narratives, photovoice, and AI-assisted data collection, he advances citizen science as both a research approach and a policy-relevant tool. www.noambrenner.com