Yuri Kivshar

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Yuri S. Kivshar
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Kivshar in June 2014
BornApril 3, 1959 (1959-04-03) (age 65)
Citizenship Australia
Alma mater University of Kharkiv
Known for
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions Australian National University

Yuri S. Kivshar (born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR), Australian Scientist of Ukrainian origin, distinguished professor, head of Nonlinear Physics Centre of The Australian National University (ANU) (Canberra, Australia) and research director of The International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (St. Petersburg, Russia), Australian Federation Fellow. [1]

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Education

Yuri Kivshar was born in Kharkov, USSR (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). He studied at Kharkiv school of physics founded by nobel prize laureate Lev Landau. In 1984 he received Doctor of Philosophy degree and in 1989 aged 30 he became the youngest research fellow of Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering.

Career

Starting from 1991 he worked as a scientist in USA, Finland, Spain, Germany [2] and in 1993 he was invited to the Optical Sciences Centre of Australia and later founded his own laboratory Nonlinear Physics Centre of ANU.

Starting from 2000 Yuri Kivshar worked in different fields of nonlinear optics and carried out research of solitons and metamaterials, nonlinear photonic crystal and composite materials theories.

He made fundamental impact into self-focusing effect, [3] [4] [5] metamaterials, [6] [7] [8] dielectric nanoantennas, [9] topological insulators, [10] optic signal processing and optic communications. He also discovered series of solitons and described their properties.

In 2010 Yuri Kivshar was invited to St. Petersburg, Russia in terms of government Megagrant program. [11] He became a scientific leader of the International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials of the ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).

Publications

Professor Kivshar authored and co-authored more than 900 scientific papers. [12] His h-index is 140. [13] His work has generated over 38,000 citations.

Awards

Throughout his career he has received awards, including the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award, in his continued contributions to nonlinear optics and electrodynamics. Professor Kivshar is also the recipient of the 2022 Max Born Award and is an Optica Fellow. [14]

Medals

YearDescriptionContribution
2020 SPIE Mozi Award"in recognition of his pioneering research in nonlinear metamaterials and meta-optics, and the demonstration of efficient metadevices and meta-lenses based on all-dielectric Mie-resonant nanophotonics" [15]
2014 Harrie Massey Medal and Prize For work in the field of nonlinear optics, metamaterials and metadevices [16]
2014Lebedev MedalFor outstanding achievements in advancing laser science and engineering, facilitating the exchange of information and popularization of laser science. [17]
2007 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Research in the field of nonlinear optics
2005 Walter Boas Medal Research in physics

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References

  1. Approved Fellows: Resident Australians Archived April 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Dr. Kivshar's Long-Term Positions
  3. Kivshar, Yuri; Pelinovsky, Dmitry (2000). "Self-focusing and transverse instabilities of solitary waves". Physics Reports. 331 (4): 117–195. Bibcode:2000PhR...331..117K. doi:10.1016/s0370-1573(99)00106-4.
  4. Kivshar, Yuri S. (15 July 1993). "Self-localization in arrays of defocusing waveguides". Optics Letters. 18 (14): 1147. Bibcode:1993OptL...18.1147K. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.160.216 . doi:10.1364/OL.18.001147. PMID   19823316.
  5. Davoyan, Arthur R.; Shadrivov, Ilya V.; Kivshar, Yuri S. (12 November 2009). "Self-focusing and spatial plasmon-polariton solitons". Optics Express. 17 (24): 21732–7. Bibcode:2009OExpr..1721732D. doi: 10.1364/OE.17.021732 . hdl: 10440/1048 . PMID   19997415.
  6. Poddubny, Alexander; Iorsh, Ivan; Belov, Pavel; Kivshar, Yuri (28 November 2013). "Hyperbolic metamaterials". Nature Photonics. 7 (12): 948–957. Bibcode:2013NaPho...7..948P. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.243. hdl: 1885/84762 . S2CID   256703277.
  7. Decker, Manuel; Staude, Isabelle; Shishkin, Ivan I.; Samusev, Kirill B.; Parkinson, Patrick; Sreenivasan, Varun K. A.; Minovich, Alexander; Miroshnichenko, Andrey E.; Zvyagin, Andrei; Jagadish, Chennupati; Neshev, Dragomir N.; Kivshar, Yuri S. (12 December 2013). "Dual-channel spontaneous emission of quantum dots in magnetic metamaterials". Nature Communications. 4: 2949. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2949D. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3949 . hdl: 1885/75916 . PMID   24335832.
  8. Kapitanova, Polina V.; Ginzburg, Pavel; Rodríguez-Fortuño, Francisco J.; Filonov, Dmitry S.; Voroshilov, Pavel M.; Belov, Pavel A.; Poddubny, Alexander N.; Kivshar, Yuri S.; Wurtz, Gregory A.; Zayats, Anatoly V. (14 February 2014). "Photonic spin Hall effect in hyperbolic metamaterials for polarization-controlled routing of subwavelength modes". Nature Communications. 5: 3226. Bibcode:2014NatCo...5.3226K. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4226 . hdl: 1885/69150 . PMID   24526135.
  9. Krasnok, Alexander E.; Simovski, Constantin R.; Belov, Pavel A.; Kivshar, Yuri S. (2014). "Superdirective dielectric nanoantennas". Nanoscale. 6 (13): 7354–61. Bibcode:2014Nanos...6.7354K. doi:10.1039/C4NR01231C. PMID   24862185.
  10. Slobozhanyuk, Alexey P.; Poddubny, Alexander N.; Miroshnichenko, Andrey E.; Belov, Pavel A.; Kivshar, Yuri S. (24 March 2015). "Subwavelength Topological Edge States in Optically Resonant Dielectric Structures". Physical Review Letters. 114 (12): 123901. Bibcode:2015PhRvL.114l3901S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.123901. hdl: 1885/14022 . PMID   25860745.
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  16. Professor Yuri Kivshar awarded prestigious Medal and Prize
  17. Professor Yuri Kivshar awarded Lebedev Medal