Nikolay Zheludev | |
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| Born | Nikolay I. Zheludev (1955-04-23)April 23, 1955 (age 69) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Spouse | Tanya Nousinova |
| Children | Ilya[1] Ivan[2] |
| Awards | Young Medal and Prize (2015) President's Science and Technology Award (2020) Michael Faraday Medal and Prize (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nanophotonics Metamaterials Nonlinear Optics |
| Institutions | University of Southampton Nanyang Technological University Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisors | A. I. Kovrigin (PhD 1981) S. A. Akhmanov (DSc 1992) |
| Website | www www |
Nikolay ZheludevFRS (born 23 April 1955) is a British scientist specializing in nanophotonics,[3] metamaterials,[4] nanotechnology,[5] electrodynamics,[6] and nonlinear optics.[7] Nikolay Zheludev is one of the founding members of the closely interlinked fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics that emerged at the dawn of the 21st century on the crossroads of optics and nanotechnology. Nikolay's work focus on developing new concepts in which nanoscale structuring of matter enhance and radically change its optical properties.[8]
Zheludev started his academic career at the International Laser Centre atMoscow State University, where he also obtained MSc, PhD and DSc.[9] He moved to the UK in 1991, becoming in 2007 the director of the Centre for Photonic Metamaterials and deputy director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre of theUniversity of Southampton,[10] one of the world's leading institutes for photonics research and the largest photonics group in the UK.
Nikolay also works in Singapore, where since 2012 he has founded and directed the Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies at Nanyang Technological University.[9] Since 2014 he has been the founding co-director of The Photonics Institute, Singapore,[11] Asia leading research organization uniting 250 faculty and researches working in photonics.
Zheludev has led some major multi-million research programmes in the UK and Singapore including UKEPSRC NanoPhotonics Portfolio Partnership (2004–2009), Basic Technology Programme “Nanoscope” (2008–2013),[12] Programme on “Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials” (2010–2016), Programme on “The Physics and Technology of Photonic Metadevices and Metasystems” (2015–2021),[12] the Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 3 Programmes on “Disruptive Photonic Technologies” (2012–2017) and “Quantum and Topological Nanophotonics” (2016–2022).[13]
He served as the editor-in-chief of theJournal of Optics[14] from 2010 until 2020, and he is currently an Advisory Board Member forNanophotonics andACS Photonics. In 2007, he established theEuropean Physical Society international biennial meeting for nanophotonics and metamaterials, the NANOMETA conference.[15]
Zheludev was awarded theThomas Young Medal and Prize in 2015 for “Global Leadership and Pioneering, Seminal Work in Optical Metamaterials and Nanophotonics”.[16] In 2022, he was awarded the Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for ""For international leadership, discoveries and in-depth studies of new phenomena and functionalities in photonic nanostructures and nanostructured matter". In 2020, he was awarded thePresident's Science and Technology Award, the highest honours bestowed on research scientists in Singapore.[17] Zheludev has also been awarded theLeverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2000);[18] Senior Research Professorship of theEPSRC (2002); and TheRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award & Fellowship (2009).[19] He is a Fellow of theEuropean Physical Society (EPS),[20]The Optical Society (OSA),[21] TheInstitute of Physics (IOP) and theAmerican Physical Society (APS).[22]
In 2018, he was elected as aFellow of the Royal Society,[8] a fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. In 2019, he was elected as a foreign member of the United States of AmericaNational Academy of Engineering.[23] In 2021, he became a laureate of theAsian Scientist 100 by theAsian Scientist.[24]
Nikolay was born in Moscow, Russia. His father physicist and crystallographer Prof. Ivan S. Zheludev worked at the Institute of Crystallography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and combined his academic work with the post of the Deputy Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria, Vienna. His mother Dr. Galina Zheludeva was a faculty at Moscow State University. Nikolay's sister, Prof. Svetlana Zheludeva worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences and his brother Andrey is professor at ETH Zurich. Nikolay is married to linguist Tanya Nousinova, daughter of playwrightIlya Nousinov. They have two sons, Ilya and Ivan.
