Alexander Szameit (born 10 January 1979) is a German physicist working in experimental solid-state optics.

[1] Following that, from 2004 to 2007 he pursued a doctoral degree at the University of Jena, graduating with the highest honor of "summa cum laude".

[2] From 2009 he worked at the Technion in Haifa as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Mordechai Segev.

[6][7] As experimental platforms, he utilizes artificial structured media such as arrays of coupled optical waveguides directly inscribed into glass chips by ultrafast laser pulses,[7] or synthetic mesh lattices implemented by time-multiplexed loops of optical fibers.

[8] Using these techniques, his research[6] covers a broad range of fields ranging from topological photonics,[9] non-Hermitian[8] and PT-symmetric[10] optical systems, integrated quantum photonics[11] and nonlinear optics[12] to synthetic dimensions[13] and the emulation of relativistic physics[14] in on-chip light-based settings.