Mikael C. Rechtsman

Mikael C. Rechtsman is an assistant professor of physics at The Pennsylvania State University. He was a postdoc in Mordechai Segev's group at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and earned his Ph.D. from Princeton under Salvatore Torquato. His experimental and theoretical work spans the fields of soft and hard condensed-matter theory, nonlinear optics, photonic crystals, and topological insulators, with a recent emphasis on the topological protection of light.