Adi Efal is a Gerda Henkel research fellow at the Thomas institute of the University of Cologne (2012-2013). Between 2010 and 2012 she was a Fritz Thyssen fellow at the art history institute of the University of Cologne. In 2010 she was a fellow at the IFK Vienna; in 2007-2008 a fellow at the Rosenzweig center for German Jewish Culture in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 2005-2006 at the ENS Paris. She has been publishing in the fields of art historiography and art theory. She is responsible for the Hebrew translations of Alain Badiou’s L’éthique (2002) and Jacques Ranciere’s Le partage du sensible (2004). Between 1999 and 2009 she taught in various academic institutes in Israel, amongst them the Tel-Aviv University and the Bezalel academy of art and Design in Jerusalem.