Gili is an Associate Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tel Aviv University. Previously, Gili worked as a Research Scientist at the MIT Physics of Living Systems group, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Chemical Engineering Department.

Gili received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, as a graduate of the Technion Excellence Program. She completed her Masters degree in Physics, and her PhD degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, both at the Technion.