Iddo Gefen was born in 1992 in Israel and cur­rent­ly resides in Tel Aviv. He is an author and neu­rocog­ni­tive researcher at the Vir­tu­al and Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Lab at the Sagol Brain Insti­tute. There, he leads an inno­v­a­tive study to diag­nose aspects of Parkin­son’s dis­ease using sto­ry­telling and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty. His first book, Jerusalem Beach, received the Israeli Min­is­ter of Cul­ture’s Award in 2017.