# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoav-shechtman
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:47:31.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoav-shechtman"
name: "Yoav Shechtman"
slug: "yoav-shechtman"
description: "Yoav Shechtman is an Israeli physicist and engineer. He heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology."
tagline: "Israeli physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoav_Shechtman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1980-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             2.553191489361702
  historical:           2.409792
  currentAttention:     14.18439716312057
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  81
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ShechtmanLab"
    handle:    "ShechtmanLab"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/yoav.shechtman"
    handle:    "yoav.shechtman"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoav-shechtman-61a9574/"
    handle:    "yoav-shechtman-61a9574"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Shechtman"
    title: "Yoav Shechtman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%90%D7%91_%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "יואב שכטמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90779872"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations