DR. ITAI EPSTEIN | epsteinlab

Dr. Itai Epstein

Assistant Professor

Department of Physical Electronics

School of Electrical Engineering

Faculty of Engineering

Tel Aviv University

Appointments

2020 – present Affiliated Assistant Professor, QuanTAU, Quantum Science and Technology center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2020 – present Affiliated Assistant Professor, Center for Light-Matter Interaction, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2020 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University.
2016 – 2020 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences.

Education

PhD – Electrical Engineering, Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
MSc – Physics, Magna Cum Laude, School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

BSc – Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Honors & Awards

Alon fellowship for outstanding young scientists – Israel Council for Higher Education, 2021.
EPS Individual Member Travel Grant– CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2017.
Marie Curie fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researcher – 2016.
Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant Award – OSA’s Frontiers in Optics 2015, San Jose CA, USA, 2015.
Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship – The Optical Society (OSA), 2015.
Ministry of Science and Technology International Conferences Scholarship for Excelling PhD Students – Israel, 2015.
XIN student fellow for outstanding PhD students – Tel Aviv University Center of Nanoscience & nanotechnology, 2015.
Tel Aviv University Center of Nanoscience & nanotechnology Travel Grant – Tel Aviv University, 2015.
Weinstein PhD Studies Award for Excellence in Signal Processing – Nadav Levanon prize, Tel Aviv University, 2015.
SPIE Newport Research Excellence Travel Award – Photonics West 2015.
Ministry of Science and Technology International Conferences Scholarship for Excelling PhD Students – Israel, 2014.
SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship – SPIE 2014.
KLA-Tencor Research excellence award – Tel Aviv University, 2014.
Tel Aviv University Center of Nanoscience & nanotechnology Travel Grant – Tel Aviv University, 2014.
David and Paulina Trozky Graduate Degree Award – Tel Aviv University, 2014.
Weinstein Signal Processing Award for Outstanding Student Paper – Tel Aviv University, 2014.
Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition – winner, OSA’s Frontiers in Optics 2013, Orlando FL, USA, 2013.
Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant Award – OSA’s Frontiers in Optics 2013, Orlando FL, USA, 2013.
Tel Aviv University Center of Nanoscience & nanotechnology Travel Grant – Tel Aviv University, 2013.
Tel Aviv University Electro-Optics Fund award – Tel Aviv University, 2012.