Yoav Shechtman

Yoav Shechtman (; 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 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.

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.

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 2021 Krill Prize 2024 European Research Council Proof of Concept (ERC PoC) grants .2

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