Professor Gadi Eisenstein serves as the director of the Technion Russel Berrie nanotechnology Institute since 2013. He is also a member of the management committee of the newly established Hellen Diller Quantum Center.
Professor Eisenstein received his PhD in 1980 from the University of Minnesota and then joined the AT&T Bell Laboratory Crawford Hill Research Laboratory where he worked for 10 years before joining the Technion Electrical Engineering Department in 1989.
Professor Eisenstein is a world leader in the field of semiconductor lasers and amplifier dynamics and noise. He has pioneered many of the relevant fields including semiconductor optical simplifiers at Bell Labs, the concept of carrier transport in high seed semiconductor lasers which established the speed limitations of quantum well and quantum dot lasers. More recently, he pioneered the field of quantum optics in room
temperature quantum dot ensembles which is a route towards practical devices for quantum computing and information processing. Other major topics he is working on are chip scale atomic clocks, nonlinear photonic crystal waveguides and electrical characteristics of diode lasers.
Professor Eisenstein has published more than 350 papers in scientific journals. He was awarded numerous prizes including the AT&T Bell Laboratories Research Achievement Award, The Alexander von Humboldt Award (twice), the IEEE Photonic Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, and the Wolfgang Mehr Fellowship at IHP, 2020. He was elected Foreign Member at The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed
Arti in 2012.