Oron Shagrir has been the Vice Rector[3] (2013–2017) and then Vice President (2017 onwards) for international affairs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2] Shagrir was also the head of the Cognitive Science department in the university.
Shagrir's areas of research interest include the conceptual foundations of (mainly computational) cognitive and brain sciences, the history and philosophy of computing and computability, and "supervenience". His publications include: