Jakob was born in Tel-Aviv,Israel in 1979. He received his Ph.d in Animal Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 2013. He performed his post-doc in the field of Neuroendocrine regulation of stress and related psychopathologies at the Weizmann Institute, Israel, as a joint postdoc in the labs of Prof. Gil Levkowitz and Prof. Alon Chen.

In 2017 he joined as a researcher to the Animal Science institute of "Volcani Institute", Israel.

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