Yoav Shechtman

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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.

Born (1980-03-17) 17 March 1980 (age 46)
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SpouseTamar Navrotsky Shechtman
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Yoav Shechtman
יואב שכטמן
Yoav Shechtman, 2018
Born (1980-03-17) 17 March 1980 (age 46)
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SpouseTamar Navrotsky Shechtman
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FieldsBiomedical Engineering
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Doctoral advisorsMordechai Segev
Yonina Eldar
Other academic advisorsWilliam E. Moerner
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Early life and education

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

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

  • 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

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