Aviya Doron is a PhD candidate in the department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten. Her Phd project explores risk and trust in Jewish-Christian economic interaction in the German Empire, c. 1280-1420, and aims to contextualize the institutional setting in which Jewish and Christian economic activity had developed into daily social and economic practices. Aviya holds a bachelors degree from The Jerusalem Academy of Music, and was a classical pianist for over 15 years. In 2017 she received her MA with honours in European Studies from the Hebrew University after writing a thesis titled: Changes in Innovation Capacities: A Comparative Analysis of the German Economy in the late 19th Century and Post-World War II.