Dr. Shay Wolfling

CTO
Nova Measuring Instrument


Dr. Shay Wolfling joined Nova in 2011 as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Nova, Dr. Wolfling was an R&D manager at KLA-Tencor-Belgium (formerly ICOS Vision Systems, a publicly traded company acquired by KLA in 2008), where he led multidisciplinary metrology & inspection development projects. Previously Dr. Wolfling was a founder and VP of R&D at Nano-Or-Technologies, a start-up company with proprietary technology for 3D optical measurements, which was acquired by ICOS Vision Systems in 2005. He took Nano-Or from the idea stage to initial product sales. Prior to founding Nano-Or, Shay was a project manager in Y-beam, a start-up offering laser-based skin treatments.

Dr. Wolfling has authored multiple papers and owns several patents in the field of optical measurements. He holds a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a M.Sc. in physics from Tel-Aviv University, and a PhD in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.