Gregory R. Toker

Gregory R. Toker was born in 1951 in Moscow, Russian Federation. In 1968, after 10 years of school, he entered the Moscow State Institute of Physics and Technology. He graduated from MIPT in 1974 and started to work at P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), later at the General Physics Institute of RAS—the two leading Russian Research Institutes in the field of physics and quantum electronics. His positions at these institutions included engineer, junior research scientist, and research scientist.

In 1992, he and his family emigrated from Russia to Israel, where he worked at the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion), Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (Haifa). In 1998, the family moved to Canada, where Dr. Toker worked for a few high-tech companies in Toronto and Ottawa. In 2005, he became a research professor at the Cuarnavaco University (Mexico). In 2007, Dr. Toker returned to Israel and at the present time works as a research professor at the Physical Department of the Technion. He is married and has one son. He is a citizen of Israel and Canada.

e-mail address: gtoker@tx.technion.ac.il