Alexey Kavokin
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Alexey Kavokin | |
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| Born | 7 March 1970 (age 56) Leningrad |
| Spouse | Grudskaya |
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| Fields | Solid State Physics |
| Institutions | University of Southampton, Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, Westlake University |
Alexey V. Kavokin (born 7 March 1970 in Leningrad) is a Russian and French theoretical physicist and writer.[1]
He is an expert in solid state optics and semiconductor physics.[2]
He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University in 1991. He was a member of staff of the Ioffe Physico-Technical institute (1992–2000). He graduated from the Ioffe Physico-Technical institute in 1993, with a PhD in physics and mathematics, supervisor Prof. E.L. Ivchenko. He was a professor at the Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1998 – 2005). He is a professor at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom, 2005 – 2018). In July 2010, he co-founded the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics with the support of Dr. Giuseppe Eramo and was appointed scientific director.[3] In 2018, he joined the Westlake University (Hangzhou, China) as a Chair Professor and Director of the International Center for Polaritonics.[4]
He is the brother of physicist Kirill Kavokin. He is married, with 4 children[citation needed].
Prizes and awards
- Headliner Award 2020, for the research on quantum computers based on liquid light.[5]
- E.F. Gross Medal for defining contribution into development of modern Polaritonics: physics of light-matter coupling in semiconductor nano- and microstructures, 2020.
- ISCS 2020 Quantum Devices Award.[6]
- Honorary professor of the Vladimir State university, 2017
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Russian-Armenian University, Erevan, Armenia, 2017
- Established Career Fellowship by EPSRC, UK 2012.
- Winner of the "Megagrant" of the Russian Ministry of Science and Education, 2011.
- Chairholder of the Marie Curie Chair of Excellence in Polaritonics, Rome, Tor Vergata, 2006.
- Prize of the Scientific Council of A.F. Ioffe Institute for the Best Scientific Work of the year 1998 for "Observation of above-barrier exciton states" (with M.E. Sasin and R.P. Seisyan).
- Prize of the Scientific Council of A.F. Ioffe Institute for the Best Scientific Work of the year 1996 for "Theory of exciton magnetic polarons" (with K.V. Kavokin and I.A. Merkulov).
Other responsibilities
Program chairman: Forum "Science of the Future", Sevastopol, 2015, Kazan 2016, Nizhniy Novgorod 2017
Member of Evaluation panel: Institut Universitaire de France, 2010, 2011
Expert of the French ANR program: 2009–2017, Horizon 2020: 2015–2017
Member of Material Science Panel for evaluation of CNR Laboratories (Italy), Since 2009
Editor of the “Superlattices and Microstructures”, Elsevier since 2016
Referee for the journals: Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters and others
