Our Team

Liat received her Ph.D. from the School of Education at the Hebrew University where she has studied learning contexts that promote versus hamper children’s motivation to learn. She is currently working as a Developmental Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research focuses on the effects of toxic stressful environments on children’s mental and physical development.

Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Turin is a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science Database Group and is a “Post Doc” at Drexel Univ., He is a software engineer and computer scientist with extensive experience in data science and practical experience on commercial projects (back-end, front-end, web, mobile, Java…) and strong visualization skills.

Assistant Professor at the Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Hershberg will contributing invaluable experience, and expertise to our approaches for organizing, collecting, aggregating and analyzing large data sets of relating information about the health/biological impacts of identified building/environmental condition deficiencies.

Australia. Dr. Lahiji is an Associate Professor and the editor of Architecture Against the Post-Political: Re-claiming the Critical Project (Routledge, 2014). Nadir is working with us to more deeply examine the role that building design, construction, operation and condition has on educational opportunity, academic achievement, social justice and equity.

Sr. Director of Advanced Applications Engineering, responsible for the development of mobile applications for IOS and Android platforms at Comcast. Sean has twenty [20] years of experience in the development of software engineering and architecture with a major focus on mobile applications and interactive media technologies. He has been instrumental in the ongoing development of our crowd-sourcing, citizen-science platforms and he has a very direct and practical interest in public school condition improvements especially because he has 3 children currently attending Philadelphia public schools.

Neil Roseman, Technology Consultant & Technologist in Residence for a Summit Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Neil, was the former VP of Engineering at Amazon.com [1998-2007] and served in the same capacity at Zynga and he was also the CEO of Evri.com. Neil was responsible for the development and building of large-scale data collection and associated technology systems atAmazon.Com and Target Corp. among others.

Jerry A. Roseman, M.Sc.I.H. is the Director of Environmental Science and Occupational Safety and Health for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Health & Welfare Fund & Union and a “Technical Environmental Science Advisor-Consultant” to the American Federation of Teachers Department of Health, Safety & Well-Being.  He has more than 35 years of site inspection, evaluation and assessment experience and has worked with the Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control for the NJ Dept. of Health, and in the conduct of NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations.  Jerry has conducted hundreds of training programs, worked on projects with the City of Philadelphia and the US CDC [Centers for Disease Control] and, on the development of a number of joint Indoor Environmental Quality [IEQ] programs and projects with the School District of Philadelphia.