His main contributions include discovery of new color centers in diamond and hexagonal boron nitride as well as development of new methodologies to engineer nanophotonic devices from these materials.
(2007) from the department of Materials Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof Yeshayahu Lifshitz.
During his PhD, Igor studied new color centers in diamond and discovered the brightest single-photon source known at that time.
[2] After completion of his PhD in December 2010, Igor moved to Harvard for two years of postdoctoral training in the group of Prof Evelyn Hu.
In 2020, in collaboration with Prof V Dyakonov, Igor and his team discovered new optically active spin defects in hBN, the negatively charged boron vacancy.