From an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, and graduate studies in Theoretical Particle Physics from the Weizmann Institute, Yonit joined the Racah Institute of Physics as a new faculty member in Fall 2017, after a postdoc position at UC Berkeley and Cornell. An avid fan of all things crocodilian, she is still hoping to have a physics-reason for a crocodile to appear in one of her future publications.