Yoav Shechtman
Yoav Shechtman | |
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| יואב שכטמן | |
| File:Yoav Shechtman.jpg Yoav Shechtman, 2018 | |
| Born | 17 March 1980 |
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| Spouse | Tamar Navrotsky Shechtman |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biomedical Engineering |
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| Doctoral advisors | Mordechai Segev Yonina Eldar |
| Other academic advisors | William E. Moerner |
Yoav Shechtman (Hebrew: יואב שכטמן; born March 17, 1980) is an Israeli physicist and engineer. He heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Yoav Shechtman was born on March 17, 1980, to Zipora and Dan Shechtman and spent his childhood growing up in Haifa.
Shechtman holds a BSc in physics and electrical Engineering (2007) and a PhD in physics (2013) from the Technion. He later completed a postdoc at Stanford University (2016), developing super-resolution microscopy methods with W.E. Moerner.[1]
Academic career
[edit | edit source]Since October 2016, Shechtman is a faculty member in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology where he currently heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab.[2][3]
In 2018, Shechtman and his team at the Technion developed an efficient method for bio imaging in super resolution.[4]
In 2021, Shechtman, in collaboration with Reut Orange-Kedem, developed a cheap and more efficient method for the production of more precise optical components.[5]
From September 2023 – 2024, Shechtman was a Harrington Faculty Fellow at The University of Texas[6] at Austin.
In May 2025, Shechtman was selected as a member of the Israel Young Academy.[7]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2016 Technion Career Advancement Chair
- 2017 Zuckerman Faculty Scholar
- 2018 Early Career Award of the International Association for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)
- 2018 European Research Council starting grant
- 2019 Uzi and Michal Halevy Award for Innovative Applied Engineering
- 2020 IUPAB Young Investigator Medal and Prize[8]
- 2021 Krill Prize
- 2024 European Research Council Proof of Concept (ERC PoC) grants .2
Published works
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See also
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External links
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- Nano-bio-optics lab – Yoav Shechtman
- Dr. Yoav Shechtman - Zuckerman STEM Leadership Faculty Program on YouTube
- Yoav Shechtman publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- Living people
- 1980 births
- Jewish physicists
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Stanford University alumni
- Scientists from Haifa
- 21st-century Israeli physicists
- University of Texas at Austin faculty
- Optical physicists
- Israeli nanotechnologists
- 21st-century Israeli engineers
- Israeli electrical engineers
- Biomedical engineers