Baruch Barzel (March 19, 1976) is an Israeli physicist and applied mathematician at Bar-Ilan University.His main research areas are statistical physics, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and network science.Barzel completed his Ph.D. in physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israelas a Hoffman Fellow.He then pursued his postdoctoral training at the at Northeastern Universityand at the , Harvard Medical School. Barzel is a recipient of the Racah prize (2007) and the of the Wolf Foundation (2019).Barzel is also an active public lecturer on science and on Judaism, and presents a weekly corner on Jewish thought on Israel National Radio.