Yoav Lahini

Yoav (Joe) Lahini

PI, Nonlinear and Complex Systems Lab @ Tel Aviv University

School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shenkar Physics building, room 414

Tel: +972 3 640 8428

E-mail: lahini [at] tauex.tau.ac.il 

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Brief CV

EDUCATION

1999 – 2001 Hebrew University - BSc in Physics

2003 – 2005 Weizmann Institute of Science, MSc in Physics 

2006 – 2011 Weizmann Institute of Science: PhD in Physics, under the supervision of Professor Yaron Silberberg. Thesis title: “Nonlinear and quantum optics of disordered media”

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2012 - 2015 MIT, department of physicspost-doctoral fellow

2015 - 2017 Harvard University, department of applied physics, research associate

2017 - 2023 Senior Lecturer (assistant professor), School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University 

2023- ....                Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University

HONORS AND AWARDS

2000, 2001 The Rosalind Henwood scholarship for undergraduates (Hebrew University)

2007- 2011 Adams Fellowship of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2010                   Rothschild post-doctoral fellowship (Yad-Hanadiv Foundation, declined).

2011                   John F. Kennedy Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis, Weizmann Institute

2012-2015 Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellowships, Department of Physics, MIT.

2018                   The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Young Faculty Chair, Tel Aviv University