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Yoav Shechtman
Native Name:	יואב שכטמן
Birth Date:	17 March 1980
Birth Place:	Haifa, Israel
Nationality:	Israeli
Field:	Biomedical Engineering
Doctoral Advisors:	Mordechai Segev Yonina Eldar
Academic Advisors:	William E. Moerner
Spouse:	Tamar Navrotsky Shechtman

Prof. Yoav Shechtman (he|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.

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]

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

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

See also

• Dan Shechtman
• Science and technology in Israel

External links

• • Nano-bio-optics lab – Yoav Shechtman

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yoav Shechtman - Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. 16 April 2020.
2. Web site: 29 November 2024 . Nano Bio Optics lab at the Technion . 29 November 2024 . www.clever-microscopy.com .
3. Web site: Israel Society for Medical and Biological Engineering - Announcements. 16 April 2020.
4. Web site: he. Life in Super Resolution. HaYadan. 2 June 2018. 16 April 2020.
5. News: Research: The "Trick" That Helps to Develop Precise Optical Components . . 23 April 2022 . he . 15 June 2021.
6. Web site: Faculty Directory . . 7 September 2023.
7. Web site: 4 April 2020 . The first Edition of the IUPAB Young Investigator Medal and Prize has been awarded to Dr Yoav Shechtman . 16 April 2020.