Tal Schwartz, born
in Haifa, Israel, studied physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of
Technology. He received his PhD in 2008 for his research on nonlinear dynamics
in stochastic optical systems under the supervision of Prof. Moti Segev. During
his PhD he studied the transport of light in disordered waveguide arrays,
photorefractive optical solitons and pattern formation in nonlinear optical
systems. He had several achievemnets, including the first observation of
Anderson localization in disordered photonic lattices and the first observation
of spontaneous pattern formation with white light. He then moved to France for
his postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory for Nanostructures led by Prof.
Thomas Ebbesen at Strasbourg University under a Rothschild Fellowship from Yad
Hanadiv Foundation and a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Embassy in
Israel. There he studied the interaction of light with organic molecules in
nanostructures, focusing on strong coupling in organic cavities and plasmonic
nanostructures. In 2012 he joined Tel Aviv University as a senior lecturer at
the School of Chemistry, where he is currently establishing his independent
research group.
