Limor Shifman

Limor Shifman () is a professor of communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is most recognized for researching and developing an area of study surrounding Internet memes, a subarea of digital culture and digital media research. From 2009 until 2021 Shifman primarily focused on the research area of memetics, a more broad area of research interested in cultural evolution of ideas. During that time, she became the second most cited academic author on the subject of memes, following Richard Dawkins who coined the term. She is married to neurogeneticist Sagiv Shifman. Provided by Wikipedia