Schechtman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976 and was a
postdoctoral fellow at
Ohio State University. Since 1980 he has been affiliated with the
Weizmann Institute, where he became
emeritus professor in 2017. His research focuses predominantly on
functional analysis and the geometry of
Banach spaces. Schechtman is an editor of the
Israel Journal of Mathematics. ==References==