Irina Sorokina

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Irina T. Sorokina (born 1963) [1] is a Russian laser physicist. She works in Norway as a professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, [2] and is the founder and CEO of spin-off company ATLA Lasers AS. [2] [3]

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Irina T. Sorokina at TEDxArendal, Norway, 2021 Photo: Birgit Fostervold Irina T Sorokina.jpg
Irina T. Sorokina at TEDxArendal, Norway, 2021
Photo: Birgit Fostervold

Education and career

Sorokina was born in Moscow in 1963. [1] Her father was a physicist who worked on the detection of the cosmic microwave background in the early 1950s and by the 1960s had moved to nonlinear optics and lasers; inspired by him, Sorokina says that she "fell in love with physics, and optics in particular" by the age of 5 or 6. [4]

After earning a master's degree in physics and mathematics at Moscow State University, Sorokina completed a Ph.D. through the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2003 she earned a habilitation at TU Wien in Austria. [1]

She was affiliated with TU Wien as a researcher and lecturer from 1991 until 2007, when she moved to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. [1]

Recognition

Sorokina was elected to the 2007 class of OSA Fellows "for pioneering contributions to tunable and ultrashort-pulse lasers and their applications in spectroscopy, particularly based on novel materials in the near- and mid-infrared spectral ranges". [5] She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, [6] elected in 2009, [1] and is a 2004 winner of the Snell Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Speaker biography for talk "Mid-IR Femtosecond Fiber and Solid-state Lasers", Institute of Laser Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 25 November 2014, retrieved 2020-03-28
  2. 1 2 3 "Irina T. Sorokina", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology , retrieved 2020-03-27
  3. ↑ ATLA Lasers , retrieved 2020-03-28
  4. ↑ "Irina Sorokina was inspired to pursue her career by her father", OSA Stories, The Optical Society, 8 March 2017, retrieved 2020-03-27
  5. ↑ 2007 OSA Fellows, The Optical Society, retrieved 2020-03-27
  6. ↑ Gruppe II: Fysikk, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters , retrieved 2020-03-26
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