Ido Kaminer

Ido Kaminer received his BS and PhD from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Israel, and is currently Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. In his PhD research, he discovered new classes of accelerating beams in nonlinear optics and electromagnetism and as a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, he established the foundations of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics (MQED) for photonic quasiparticles and used it to find a way to enable forbidden electronic transitions in atoms.

As a faculty member at the Technion, he performed the first experiment on free-electron interaction with quantum light, demonstrating that the quantum statistics of photons can be imprinted on the electron. His scientific contributions helped create the new area of free-electron quantum optics.

He was recently elected to the Israeli Young Academy, and has won multiple awards and grants, including the European Research Council Starting Grant, the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, and American Physical Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science. He is also the laureate of the 2021 Blavatnik Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering in Israel. In 2022, he received Optica's Adolph Lomb Medal "for pioneering contributions which led to the creation of a paradigm shift in light-matter interactions of photonic quasiparticles."