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Dr. Vladimir Shalaev
http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~shalaev/

Dr. Shalaev graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics from University of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in 1983. He worked in the Krasnoyarsk University as Assistant Professor from 1983 to 1990. In 1990 he was awarded the International Humboldt Fellowship and worked at University of Heidelberg, Germany, and University of Paris-Sud, France. In 1991-93, he was a Research Associate Professor at University of Toronto and Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, Canada. From 1993 to 1997 he worked as Associate Professor and, from 1997 to 2001, Full Professor of Physics at New Mexico State University (NMSU). Since 1997 he is a George W. Gardiner Professor of Physics of NMSU. He was awarded invited professorships in several leading universities in France, Germany, and Hong Kong. In 2001 he became a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Shalaev has authored 2 books, nearly 200 technical papers and conference presentations (50 invited), 10 book chapters, and edited 2 books.

Dr. Shalaev is a world-leading expert in the field of plasmonic nanomaterials. He has played a crucial role in launching a new field of the optics of fractal and percolation metal-dielectric composites. Dr. Shalaev has explored the unique properties of these novel metal-dielectric composites and demonstrated their high potential for numerous applications in laser physics, photonics, and spectroscopy. Dr. Shalaev and his co-workers have also developed a novel class of optical materials, fractal-microcavity composites, which combine the energy-concentrating effects from the localized optical excitations in plasmonic fractal nanomaterials and dielectric micro-cavities. They showed that the multiplicative local-field enhancement in these composites, resulting from both plasmon fractal modes and dielectric cavity modes, leads to record-high enhancements for a number of optical phenomena. For fractal-microcavity composites, Dr. Shalaev and his co-workers have demonstrated lasing at very low pump intensities and observed unsurpassed enhancement for Raman and hyper-Raman scattering, which opens new avenues for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

Honors:

• Awarded George W. Gardiner Professorship in Physics (1997)
• The Associated Western Universities Faculty Fellowship (Sandia National Laboratories, NM; 1995)
• International Humboldt Foundation Scholar (Paris-Sud Universite, France; 1991)
• Humboldt Foundation Fellow (Heidelberg, Germany; 1990-91)
• USSR Academy of Science Prize for Young Investigators (1988)
• 2nd Prize in the USSR Academy of Science Competition on Fundamental Studies in Physics (1983)

Selected publications by Dr. Shalaev can be found under the publications section of the site