Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (

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: Сергей Иосифович Божевольный, born June 19, 1955) is a Russian-Danish physicist. He is currently a professor and the leader for the Centre for Nano Optics at the

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Education and career

Bozhevolnyi was raised in the village of ,

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and grew up in a family of teachers of physics and mathematics. In 1978 he graduated from

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with a Master of Science degree in physics. In 1981, he earned a PhD-degree from the same university with the thesis entitled "Study of electro-optical modulators and deflectors based on diffuse waveguides in LiNbO₃". In 1998, he earned a Doctor of Science Degree at

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, with his thesis entitled "Subwavelength apertureless light confinement". * 1981–1989 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of the , Russia * 1990–1991 Head of Section of Optical Technologies, Institute of Microelectronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavl, Russia * 1987, 1991 — visiting scientist, since 1992 lecturer and associate professor, since 2003 full professor at the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology,

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, Denmark * 1998–2001 Lecturer at the Center for Microelectronics,

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, Denmark * 2001–2004 Chief Technical Officer, Micro Managed Photons A / S, Denmark * since 2008 Professor of nano-optics, since 2013 head of the Center for Nano Optics at the University of Southern Denmark,

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, Denmark In 2006, together with professor Alexander Tishchenko at

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, he founded the Laboratory of Nano-Optics and Plasmonics in

Since 2017, Bozhevolnyi is on the list of the most Highly Cited Researchers ( Clarivate / Thomson-Reuters).

Publications

Professor Bozhevolnyi has authored and co-authored more than 600 peer-reviewed articles with 13 patents and 14 book chapters. His

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was 84
Web of Science
and 100
Google Scholar
as of November 28, 2024.

Awards

* 2007 Elected Fellow of the

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for his "pioneering contributions to near-field optics and plasmonics, including nonlinear phenomena and surface plasmon localization and guiding in nanostructures." * 2009 Best Scientist of the year from the Danish newspaper "Fyens Stiftstidendes Forskerpris" * 2011 Selected as a member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (DNA) * 2019 Willum Kann-Rasmussen Prize (for outstanding contributions to the development of technical and natural sciences) * 2019 Danish Optical Society Senior Award (for outstanding contribution to near-field optics and fundamental efforts in the development of nano-optics in Denmark, 2019) * 2019 Selected as a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) * 202
Recipient of the EPS-QEOD Prize for "Research in Laser Science and Applications" (for seminal contributions to surface-plasmon polaritons and the developments of plasmonic metasurfaces)
* 2024 Knighted in

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by His Majesty the King on October 23, 2024

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I. Metamaterials scientists 1955 births Living people 21st-century Danish physicists Russian physicists Optical physicists Fellows of Optica (society) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Academic staff of the University of Southern Denmark Russian emigrants to Denmark