Yuri S. Kivshar (born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR), Australian physicist 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.Approved Fellows: Resident Australians
Education
Yuri Kivshar was born in Kharkov, USSR (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). 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, Kivshar as a scientist in USA, Finland, Spain, GermanyDr. Kivshar's Long-Term Positions 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, 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 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.Publications of Yuri S. Kivshar His h-index is 140. 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.
Medals Year Description Contribution2025Matthew Flinders Medal and LectureFor work as a pioneer in optics.2020SPIE 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" 2014 Harrie Massey Medal and Prize For work in the field of nonlinear optics, metamaterials and metadevicesProfessor Yuri Kivshar awarded prestigious Medal and Prize 2014 Lebedev Medal For outstanding achievements in advancing laser science and engineering, facilitating the exchange of information and popularization of laser science.Professor Yuri Kivshar awarded Lebedev Medal 2007 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Research in the field of nonlinear optics 2005 Walter Boas Medal Research in physics
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