Yoav Shechtman


Yoav Shechtman is an Israeli physicist and engineer. He heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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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 and a PhD in physics from the Technion. He later completed a postdoc at Stanford University, developing super-resolution microscopy methods with W.E. Moerner.

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.
In 2018, Shechtman and his team at the Technion developed an efficient method for bio imaging in super resolution.
In 2021, Shechtman, in collaboration with Reut Orange-Kedem, developed a cheap and more efficient method for the production of more precise optical components.
From September 2023 – 2024, Shechtman was a Harrington Faculty Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin.
In May 2025, Shechtman was selected as a member of the Israel Young Academy.

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