Draft:Ido Kaminer

Born 1986

Fields Quantum mechanics, Photonics, Quantum optics and Electron Microscope

Nationality Israeli

Institutions Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Doctoral advisor Mordechai Segev

Education Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and MIT

Awards Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2021)

Krill Prize (2021)

Adolph Lomb Medal (2022)

Schmidt Polymath Award (2022)

Stanisław Lem European Science Prize (2023)

https://kaminer.technion.ac.il/

Ido Kaminer (born in 1986) is a physicist and electrical engineer, a professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a member of the Israeli Young Academy. Kaminer studies the basics of quantum mechanics, photonics, quantum optics, and electron microscopy.

Kaminer completed all of his academic studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. As a student in the Technion's outstanding program, he graduated with a double bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and physics with high honors. He studied a master's degree and a doctorate in physics under the guidance of research professor Mordechai Segev. In his doctoral thesis he discovered new classes of accelerating rays in optics. For this research he won in 2012 the prize of the Israeli Physics Society and in 2014 the prize of the American Physical Society (APS) for an outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of laser physics. After his studies, he completed a post-doctorate at MIT with a Rothschild Fellowship and a Marie Curie Scholarship from the European Commission.

In 2018, he joined the faculty of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion, and established the AdQuanta laboratory at the institution. Kaminer is a member of the Russell Berry Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), the Helen Diller Quantum Center, and the Solid State Institute. In 2021, a group of students led by Kaminar published an article about a software they had developed to discover mathematical formulas and called it the Ramanujan machine, after the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The research group launched a website in order to increase the involvement of the public in promoting mathematical research. In 2020 he was included in the list of "40/40 promising young people" by TheMarker magazine. In 2021 he won the Krill Prize. In the same year he also won the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. In 2022 he won the Schmidt Polymath Award in the amount of 2.5 million dollars, from a fund founded by Eric Schmidt. In the same year, he was awarded the Adolph Lomb Medal awarded to a young scientist who has made a noteworthy contribution in the field of optics. In November 2023 Kaminer won an ERC Consolidator grant from the European Commission in the amount of 2 million euros. The grant supports selected researchers who come up with pioneering and ground-breaking research ideas.

In November 2023, Kaminer also won the Lam Prize (named after Stanisław Lem), which is awarded annually to a single young researcher whose creative work in science or engineering has the potential to have a positive impact on the future of civilization. In the opinion of the prize committee, Kaminer's research resulted in a paradigm shift in the understanding of free electron radiation.

AdQuanta Lab at the Technion