Dr. Carmit Padan is a Senior Research Fellow at Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at Technion and a Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Padan's main areas of research are national resilience, social-military relations, and military leadership. Dr. Padan's work on these subjects has been published in journals and edited volumes and has been presented in international academic conferences. Dr. Padan is a member in the board of directors of the Israeli Association for civil-military relations.