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Ido Kaminer

Ido Kaminer is an Israeli physicist and electrical engineer, a full professor at the Technion who researches quantum mechanics, photonics, quantum optics and electron microscopy.

born 1986Research on free electron radiationThe Ramanujan MachineAccelerating beams in optics

Occupation
researcher, university teacher
Education
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Ido Kaminer was born in 1986

Ido Kaminer was born on December 29, 1986. Both of his parents and his grandfather are Technion graduates.

He completed all of his academic studies at the Technion, part of them during his military service in Unit 8200. As a student in the Technion excellence program and the Psagot program, he earned a double bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and physics with highest honors. He then earned a master's degree and a doctorate in physics under Moti Segev, discovering new classes of accelerating beams in optics.

He did postdoctoral work at MIT with a Rothschild fellowship and a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission. In 2018 he joined the Technion Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founded the AdQuanta lab. He is a member of the Israel Young Academy and of several Technion research institutes.

In 2021 students under his guidance published a paper on the Ramanujan Machine, software for discovering mathematical formulas. His work has appeared in Nature and Science, and he has received several awards and research grants.

Ido Kaminer's life in 8 milestones

  1. 1986

    Born on December 29.

  2. 2012

    Received the Israel Physical Society prize for his doctoral research.

  3. 2014

    Received the American Physical Society award for a doctoral thesis in laser physics.

  4. 2018

    Joined the Technion faculty and founded the AdQuanta lab.

  5. 2021

    Received the Krill Prize and the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Israel.

  6. 2022

    Received the Schmidt Polymath Award and the Adolph Lomb Medal.

  7. 2023

    Won an ERC Consolidator grant of 2 million euros and the Lem Prize.

  8. 2026

    Won an ERC Proof of Concept grant to develop Stork for TEM electron microscopes.

Ido Kaminer served in Unit 8200

He served in Unit 8200, where he also carried out part of his academic studies.

Unit 8200

Ido Kaminer received one award

  • Adolph Lomb Medal

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Based on Hebrew Wikipedia, עדו קמינר, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.

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