12 they were. All my power came from the PIs and the employees at BINA who put me on their shoulders. I firmly believe that anything I have achieved is based on the merit of the staff and PIs I’ve worked with. I was in a position where I needed to manage and coordinate, to listen and be a spokesperson, and to absorb both the successes and disappointments. If you ask me what I am most proud of during my stewardship of BINA, I would say achieving my administrative goals. I did a lot of administrative work and I managed to make BINA an independent research center. When I stepped into my position, BINA was part of the Exact Science Faculty. The manager of this faculty did not have our interests at heart and did not award us much in the way of resources. I managed to convince both the university’s management and the academic central committee to make BINA part of the Faculty of Engineering because that was my home base. BINA became part of Engineering on the condition that they would give me full autonomy. It has been so. When my position was coming to an end, I understood that the university needed to take another action and I managed to convince the president, rector, and the CEO of Bar-Ilan to make BINA an independent unit. Today BINA is an independent unit. It is no longer part of engineering. The second achievement of my administrative work which I am proud is that I worked hard to make BINA’s building a temple for research. You cannot imagine how difficult it was. We needed to change some of the structure. The actual building needed to be set up according to code, and there were many specifications that had to be met. For example, in the clean room, I had to speak with the cleaners about the level and importance of keeping our space sterile. One of the challenges that I faced during my leadership was defining my mission. Early on, I understood that through my position, I could help others in the department. One of my first undertakings was to visit each PI personally to understand the scope of our potential. Note that I did not ask the PIs to visit me, but I went to meet them. This helped me define how the staff saw me
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