Yuri Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian physicist of Ukrainian origin, distinguished professor, head of Nonlinear Physics Centre of The Australian National University and research director of, Australian Federation Fellow.
Education
Yuri Kivshar was born in Kharkov, USSR. He studied at Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School. 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 and in 1993 he was invited to the Optical Sciences Centre of Australia and later founded his own laboratory 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,
metamaterials,
dielectric nanoantennas,
topological insulators, 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. He became a scientific leader of the of the ITMO University.