Amir Yacoby

Amir Yacoby is a condensed matter physicist and professor at Harvard University.

Education Yacoby got bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering and a master’s degree in theoretical physics. In 1994, he obtained his PhD at Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Professor Moty Heiblum.

Career In 2006, Yacoby started teaching at Harvard. In March 2014, his group developed a magnetic resonance imaging technology by which nanoscale images can be provided, that could enable researchers to peer into the atomic structure of individual molecules. In 2014, Yacoby was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.