Dr. Yuval Ben Abu teaches advanced courses in physics and mathematics at Sapir Academic College and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research deals with biological physics (biophysics) and the physics of solid and soft matter states, as well as studies of the teaching of physics on the subjects of sound, heat, solid and soft bodies. He was recently engaged in joint and advanced research with the Department of Solid State Physics at the University of Oxford on the issues of non-Markovian aspects of ion channels and the effect of ultrasound and sound waves on ion channels.