Prof. Yoav Shechtman (Hebrew: יואב שכטמן; born March 17, 1980) is an Israeli physicist and engineer.

[1] Since October 2016, Shechtman is a faculty member in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology where he currently heads the Nano-Bio-Optics lab.

[2][3] In 2018, Shechtman and his team at the Technion developed an efficient method for bio imaging in super resolution.

[4] In 2021, Shechtman, in collaboration with Reut Orange-Kedem, developed a cheap and more efficient method for the production of more precise optical components.

[5] In September 2023 – 2024, Shechtman was a Harrington Faculty Fellow at The University of Texas[6] at Austin.