Yoav Shechtman


Prof. Yoav Shechtman is an Israeli physicist. He currently heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Yoav Shechtman is the son of Nobel prize laureate, Dan Shechtman.

Early life and education

Yoav Shechtman was born on March 17, 1980 to Tzipora and Dan Shechtman and spent his childhood growing up in Haifa.
From 1998 to 2001, Shechtman served in the Artillery Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces.
Shechtman holds a BSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering and a Phd in Physics which he acquired 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 which focuses on developing methods for molecular identification and optical imaging modalities in addition to developing machine learning tools for efficient imaging reconstruction in applications such as high spatio-temporal resolution tracking of biomolecules in three dimensions and in multiple colors inside live cells.
In 2018, Shechtman and his team at the Technion developed an efficient method for bio imaging in super resolution.

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