Kivshar Yuriy Semyonovich

Year of birth

1959

Academic degree

Candidate of physical and mathematical Sciences

Field of studies

Physics

Honorary professor, lead research fallow at the Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics – ITMO

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Leading scientist's research interests:

Metamaterials, metasurfaces, nonlinear optics, biophotonics, optical solitons, optical fibers, nonlinear parametric processes, nanophotonics, graphene physics, polaritons, optical waveguides, optical switches, waveguide modes optics.

Quote by the head of the laboratory:

These days many good scientists came to the Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials including those working in European laboratories. In fact, we have created the center of gravity so now new professionals want to come here and work.

Awards and achievements:

2018 – Humboldt Research Award (Germany).

2017 – W.H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, Australian Optical Society (Австралия.

2014 – A. A. Lebedev Medal of the Optical Society named after D S Rozhdestvenskiy. For unique achievements in developing the science of lasers and technologies of their creation, for stimulation information exchange, popularizing laser science.

2014 – The Harrie Massey Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (UK). For works in nonlinear optic, metamaterials and metadevices.

2012 – Honorary Member of the Institute of Physics (UK).

2010 – Distinguished Professor, Australian National University. For achievements in scientific work.

2008 – Distinguished Professor of the Wenner-Gren Foundation (Sweden).

2007 – Tomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science. Fir research in nonlinear optics.

2006 – Honorary member of the American Physical Society (USA).

2006 – Distinguished Professor of the Carl Zeiss University in Jena (Germany).

2005 – Walter Boas Award, Australian Institute of Physics.

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Hosting organization	Field of studies	City	Invited researcher	Time span of the project
Functional Quantum Materials Laboratory National University of Science and Technology MISIS - (NUST MISIS)	Physics	Moscow	Klingeler Rudiger	2021-2023
Laboratory of the Spin Physics of Two-Dimensional Materials Р.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS - (LPI)	Physics	Moscow	Yakovlev Dmitriy Robertovich Russia	2021-2023
Laboratory for Microwave Photonics and Magnonics named after B. A. Kalinikos Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University «LETI» - (ETU LETI)	Physics	St. Petersburg	Kostylev Mikhail Pavlovich Australia, Russia	2021-2023