Yoav Shechtman

Yoav Shechtman (Hebrew: יואב שכטמן; born March 17, 1980) is an Israeli physicist and engineer. He heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Yoav Shechtman
יואב שכטמן
Yoav Shechtman, 2018
Born	(1980-03-17) 17 March 1980 (age 45) Haifa, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Technion Stanford University
Known for	Nanobiotechnology Super-resolution microscopy
Spouse	Tamar Navrotsky Shechtman
Scientific career
Fields	Biomedical Engineering
Institutions	Technion University of Texas
Doctoral advisors	Mordechai Segev Yonina Eldar
Other academic advisors	William E. Moerner

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.^[1]

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.^[2][3]

In 2018, Shechtman and his team at the Technion developed an efficient method for bio imaging in super resolution.^[4]

In 2021, Shechtman, in collaboration with Reut Orange-Kedem, developed a cheap and more efficient method for the production of more precise optical components.^[5]

From September 2023 – 2024, Shechtman was a Harrington Faculty Fellow at The University of Texas^[6] at Austin.

In May 2025, Shechtman was selected as a member of the Israel Young Academy.^[7]

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^[8]
• 2021 Krill Prize
• 2024 European Research Council Proof of Concept (ERC PoC) grants .2

Published works

• Boris Ferdman, Elias Nehme, Lucien E. Weiss, Reut Orange, Onit Alalouf & Yoav Shechtman (2020). "VIPR: vectorial implementation of phase retrieval for fast and accurate microscopic pixel-wise pupil estimation". Optics Express. 28 (7): 10179. Bibcode:2020OExpr..2810179F. doi:10.1364/OE.388248. S2CID 214731058.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Naor Granik, Lucien E. Weiss, Elias Nehme, Maayan Levin, Michael Chein, Eran Perlson, Yael Roichman & Yoav Shechtman (2019). "Single-Particle Diffusion Characterization by Deep Learning". Biophysical Journal. 117 (2): 185. Bibcode:2019BpJ...117..185G. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2019.06.015. PMC 6701009.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Eran Hershko, Lucien E. Weiss, Tomer Michaeli & Yoav Shechtman. "Multicolor localization microscopy and point-spread-function engineering by deep learning". Optics Express.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Boris Ferdman, Lucien E. Weiss, Onit Alalouf, Yonathan Haimovich & Yoav Shechtman. "Ultrasensitive Refractometry via Supercritical Angle Fluorescence". ACS Nano.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Mikael P. Backlund, Yoav Shechtman & Ronald L. Walsworth (2018). "Fundamental Precision Bounds for Three-Dimensional Optical Localization Microscopy with Poisson Statistics". Physical Review Letters. 121 (2): 023904. arXiv:1803.01776. Bibcode:2018PhRvL.121b3904B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.023904. S2CID 13671480.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
• Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Petar N. Petrov, Maurice Y. Lee, Yoav Shechtman & W. E. Moerner (2018). Koberling, Felix; Erdmann, Rainer; Gryczynski, Zygmunt K; Gregor, Ingo; Enderlein, Jörg (eds.). "Tilted Light Sheet Microscopy with 3D Point Spread Functions for Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging in Mammalian Cells". Proceedings of SPIE. 10500: 105000M. Bibcode:2018SPIE10500E..0MG. doi:10.1117/12.2288443. ISBN 9781510614857. PMC 5906058. PMID 29681676.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Petar N. Petrov, Maurice Y. Lee, Yoav Shechtman & W. E. Moerner. "3D single-molecule super-resolution microscopy with a tilted light sheet". Nature Communications.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Petar N. Petrov, Elisa Dultz, Maurice Y. Lee, Karsten Weis & W. E. Moerner. "Observation of live chromatin dynamics in cells via 3D localization microscopy using Tetrapod point spread functions". Biomedical Optics Express.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Petar N. Petrov, Yoav Shechtman & W. E. Moerner (2017). "Measurement-based estimation of global pupil functions in 3D localization microscopy". Optics Express. 25 (7): 7945. arXiv:1705.09694. Bibcode:2017OExpr..25.7945P. doi:10.1364/OE.25.007945. S2CID 4417690.
• Alex von Diezmann, Yoav Shechtman & W. E. Moerner. "Three-Dimensional Localization of Single Molecules for Super-Resolution Imaging and Single-Particle Tracking". Chemical Reviews.
• Yoav Shechtman, Lucien E. Weiss, Adam S. Backer, Maurice Y. Lee & W. E. Moerner. "Multicolour localization microscopy by point-spread-function engineering". Nature Photonics.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• W. E. Moerner, Yoav Shechtman & Quan Wang (physicist) (2015). "Single-molecule spectroscopy and imaging over the decades". Faraday Discussions. 184: 9–36. Bibcode:2015FaDi..184....9M. doi:10.1039/c5fd00149h. PMC 4782608. PMID 26616210.
• Pavel Sidorenko, Ofer Kfir, Yoav Shechtman, Avner Fleischer, Yonina C. Eldar, Mordechai Segev & Oren Cohen (2015). "Sparsity-based super-resolved coherent diffraction imaging of one-dimensional objects". Nature Communications. 6: 8209. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.8209S. doi:10.1038/ncomms9209. PMC 4569841. S2CID 10141754.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Maor Mutzafi, Yoav Shechtman, Yonina C. Eldar, Oren Cohen & Mordechai Segev (2015). "Sparsity-based Ankylography for Recovering 3D molecular structures from single-shot 2D scattered light intensity". Nature Communications. 6: 7950. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.7950M. doi:10.1038/ncomms8950. PMC 4560757. S2CID 15420365.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, Lucien E. Weiss, Adam S. Backer, Steffen J. Sahl & W. E. Moerner (2015). "Precise Three-Dimensional Scan-Free Multiple-Particle Tracking over Large Axial Ranges with Tetrapod Point Spread Functions". Nano Letters. 15 (6): 4194. Bibcode:2015NanoL..15.4194S. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01396. PMC 4462996. S2CID 18140666.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, Steffen J. Sahl, Adam S. Backer & W. E. Moerner (2014). "Optimal point spread function design for 3D imaging". Physical Review Letters. 113 (13): 133902. Bibcode:2014PhRvL.113m3902S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.133902. PMC 4381866. PMID 25302889.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, Eran Small, oav Lahini, Mor Verbin, Yonina C. Eldar, Yaron Silberberg & Mordechai Segev (2013). "Sparsity-based super-resolution and phase-retrieval in waveguide arrays". Optics Express. 21 (20): 24015. Bibcode:2013OExpr..2124015S. doi:10.1364/OE.21.024015. S2CID 17744465.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, Yonina C. Eldar, Oren Cohen & Mordechai Segev (2013). "Efficient coherent diffractive imaging for sparsely varying objects". Optics Express. 21 (5): 6327. Bibcode:2013OExpr..21.6327S. doi:10.1364/OE.21.006327.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Robert Keil, Yoav Lahini, Yoav Shechtman, Matthias Heinrich, ami Pugatch, Felix Dreisow, Andreas Tunnermann, Stefan Nolte & Alexander Szameit (2012). "Perfect imaging through a disordered waveguide lattice". Optics Letters. 37 (5): 809. Bibcode:2012OptL...37..809K. doi:10.1364/OL.37.000809.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, Yonina C. Eldar, Alexander Szameit & Mordechai Segev (2011). "Sparsity based sub-wavelength imaging with partially incoherent light via quadratic compressed sensing". Optics Express. 19 (16): 14807. arXiv:1104.4406. Bibcode:2011OExpr..1914807S. doi:10.1364/OE.19.014807. S2CID 2132771.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Yoav Shechtman, nir Gazit, Alexander Szameit, Yonina C. Eldar & Mordechai Segev (2010). "Super-resolution and reconstruction of sparse images carried by incoherent light". Optics Letters. 35 (8): 1148. Bibcode:2010OptL...35.1148S. doi:10.1364/OL.35.001148.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

See also

• Science and technology in Israel