Prof. David Gershoni

Professor David Gershoni received his B.Sc. in Physics ‘summa cum laude’ from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1980. He then pursued his graduate studies in the same institute, during which he was awarded the Wolf Prize for Excellence. In 1986, he completed his academic education, receiving both his M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Physics from the Technion. Following his graduation, Prof. Gershoni declined a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to join AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey – first as a postdoctoral scholar and later, in 1988, as a member of the technical staff. In 1991, he returned to the Department of Physics at the Technion as a faculty member, while remaining a consultant for AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1996. Since 1998 he is a Full Professor of Physics and the incumbent of the Feinberg Academic Chair. In 2004 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for pioneering experimental and theoretical studies of the optical properties of nanostructured semiconductors, including nanowires and single self-assembled quantum dots”.

Prof. Gershoni’s expertise is in experimental studies of optical and electronic properties of semiconductor systems of lower dimensionality and their applications in quantum optics and in quantum information processing.