Background
He is the son of Professor Aharon Katzir, also a scientist, who was killed in 1972 in Ben-Gurion Airport by Japanese terrorists.
He is the son of Professor Aharon Katzir, also a scientist, who was killed in 1972 in Ben-Gurion Airport by Japanese terrorists.
Bachelor of Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1964. Master of Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1974.
In 1977 he established the Applied Physics Group at Tel Aviv University, which he heads. In the past, Professor Katzir worked in some of the top research laboratories in the United States. Katzir is an expert in the fields of biomedical optics and fiber optics. His group at Tel Aviv University developed special fibers made of crystalline silver halides, which are among the few that are highly transparent in the middle-infrared (mid-International Rectifier ).
They made significant contributions to the use of mid-International Rectifier fibers for scientific, medical, industrial and environmental protection applications.
In the course of this work, Katzir collaborated with leading scientists in major national laboratories, universities, research institutions and industrial companies, all over the world. Katzir supervised the research work of tens of students in Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy dissertations.
He also published the book "Lasers and Optical Fibers in Medicine". Katzir is the Chair of ILEOS, the Israel Lasers and Electro Optics Society, and the Chair of the bi-annual international conferences that this society organizes in Israel.
He has organized and chaired tens of international symposia and conferences in the fields of biomedical optics, optical fibers, and electro-optics.
Tens of thousands of people have attended these lectures.
He was a Visiting Member of Staff at ATT Bell Laboratories in Summit, New Jersey, and he was a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. He and members of the group have been involved with research and development of new methods and new systems, based on these fibers. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of International Society for Optical Engineering, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, a member of the board of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and of other international bodies.
Married Yael Rabau; children: Dan, Tammy.