Itsik Cohen, 28, grew up in Hod-Hasharon. His majors in high-school were physics and chemistry. He served in the Patrol Unit of the 7th Armored Brigade, in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. After, he traveled in south-America and came back to study exact science and mathematics in HUJI. Itsik graduated his B.Sc. studies in physics, and began his M.Sc. in Applied Physics under the supervision of Prof. Aharon Agranat. His Thesis is on sorting micro-spheres in micro-channels using light scattering force.