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]
Photo: Birgit Fostervold
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]
