Dr. Shlomo Guzmen Carmeli is a senior lecturer in Bar-Ilan University's Sociology and Anthropology Department. His research fields of interest and specialization are text and society; ethnography of Jewish communities; anthropology of knowledge and learning; anthropology and sociology of religion and Judaism; anthropology of medical research; separatist communities, and ritual healing. He wrote articles on these subjects that were published in scientific forums in Israel and abroad. His book Encounters around the Text, Ethnography of Judaisms (2020) won the Bahat Grant for outstanding academic manuscripts for 2017. His research: "Lived Judaism in Israel: religious and spiritual experiences in a changing society" (with Rachel Werczberger), won the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Personal Research Grant (2020-2023). In 2021, the book The Power of Words: Anthropology of Jewish Textuality, which he edited together with Nissan Rubin, was published by Carmel Publishing.

In recent years, Dr. Guzmen-Carmeli has also been engaged in research that locates and examines cases of Undone Science. This term refers to research left unfunded or incomplete for financial, political, and/or other reasons. In addition, Shlomo is an editor of the ‘behevrat haadam’ website (בחברת האדם) on anthropology in Israel and the world and of the project's page, which has more than 10,000 followers.