A professor from the Bar Ilan School of Engineering won the prize of the International Commission on Optics

In addition to the award, the professor will receive a medal named after the mathematician and physicist Ernst Abe. From the reasons of the award judges: "Zalevsky was recognized for his achievements and his considerable contribution to the field of super-resolution in optics, and especially in his work in the field of the theoretical and experimental definition of a variety of approaches to improvements that go beyond the classical resolution limit established by Abe"

Professor Zeev Zalevsky of the Bar-Ilan University School of Engineering was chosen to receive the 2008 ICO Award, an award of the International Committee on Optics. In addition to the award, Professor Zalevsky will also receive a medal named after Ernst Abe, the German mathematician and physicist who made one of the most important contributions to the design of lenses intended for optical microscopy.

The ICO award began in 1982, and is awarded annually to a person under 40 who has made a real contribution to the field of optics. Zalevsky is the second Israeli to win this award.

According to the judges of the award committee, "Zev Zalevsky was recognized for his achievements and his considerable contribution to the field of super-resolution in optics, and especially in his work in the field of the theoretical and experimental definition of a variety of approaches to improvements that go beyond the classical resolution limit established by Abe."

Zeev Zalevsky received the degree of B.Sc. and his direct doctorate degree in the field of electronic engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a professor of electro-optics at the School of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University. His main research interests are optical super-resolution, nano-photonics, intra-fiber devices and photonic processing of information carried in microwaves.

In his work in the field of super-resolution, Prof. Zalevsky participated in inventing several approaches to overcome diffraction as well as geometric limitations of detectors while adapting and converting degrees of freedom from the spatial dimension to the non-spatial dimensions (such as the time dimension, the colors, the code and the polarization of light) in a way that allows for the multiplication of information from this space, and later its extraction and reconstruction. He also worked on the axial extension of the depth of focus and its connection with the science of visual optics.

In 2007, the Wolf Foundation awarded the Krill Prize to Prof. Zalevsky for his achievements and excellence in the field of scientific research.

Prof. Zalevsky has published two books, 12 book chapters and more than 170 articles in international journals, and he holds more than 10 patents. He gave dozens of invited speeches at conferences in electro-optics and participated in the organization of several international scientific events.