Daphna founded the Shohamy Lab at Columbia in 2007. She received a BA from Tel-Aviv University, double majoring in Psychology and Humanities and then went on to receive a PhD in Neuroscience from Rutgers University and trained as a postdoc at Stanford University's Psychology Department. Daphna is currently the Associate Director of Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, a Professor in the Psychology Departmentl; Kavli Professor of Brain Science; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute; And Codirector of Columbia's Kavli Institute for Brain Science.