Yoav Shechtman
Prof. Yoav Shechtman (; born March 17, 1980) 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 (IDF). Shechtman holds a BSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering (2007) and a Phd in Physics (2013) which he acquired 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.