Greenfield Professor of Neurobiology at the Institute of Life Sciences and ELSC Safra Center for Brain Science (formerly ICNC Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation) at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research focuses on different levels of the visual system, from transduction of absorbed light in the eye, through information processing by the eye and brain, to building and storing representations of the visual scene in the hierarchy of cortical areas and learning perceptional skills. Hochstein received a doctorate in Zoology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1972.