Vladimir Shalaev

Vladimir (Vlad) M. Shalaev (born February 18, 1957) is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University. Shalaev earned a Master of Science Degree in physics (summa com laude) in 1979 from Krasnoyarsk State University (Russia) and a PhD Degree in physics and mathematics in 1983 from the same university. Shalaev received several awards for his research in the fields of nanophotonics and metamaterials, including the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Rolf Landauer Medal of the Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM) International Association, the UNESCO Medal for the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies, OSA and SPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonics - Goodman Book Writing Award, the 2020 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids. Shalaev is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, SPIE, American Physical Society (APS), and Materials Research Society (MRS). Prof. Shalaev has co-/written three- and co-/edited four books, and authored over 800 research publications, in total. As of January 2023, his h-index is 117 with the total number of citations about 64,000, according to Google Scholar. In 2017-2022 Prof. Shalaev has been on the list of Highly Cited Researchers from the Web of Science Group; he is ranked #9 in the optics category of the Stanford list of top 2% World's highest-cited scientists (career-long; out of 64,044 entries). Vladimir M. Shalaev is recognized for his pioneering studies on linear and nonlinear optics of random nanophotonic composites that had helped to mold the research area of composite optical media. He also contributed to the emergence of a new field of engineered, artificial materials - optical metamaterials.