Степанов Андрей Львович

A.L. Stepanov received the Physical-Mathematical graduation degree, the Ph.D. and Dr. Sci. degrees from the Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia, in 1985, 1991, and 2009, respectively. The title of his Dr. Sci. degree is “Synthesis and optical properties of metamaterials with metal nanoparticles”. Since 1992, A.L. Stepanov is working in Kazan E.K. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and at present, he is a Heard of Nanooptics and nanoplasmonics group. In 1997-1999, A.L. Stepanov was a Research Fellow at the Sussex University, Brighton, UK (group of Prof. P.D. Townsend) with the support from the Royal Society/NATO Fellowships. From 1999 to 2003, A. Stepanov was a Research Fellow of the RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen) in Germany (group of Prof. U. Kreibig) with support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and DFG. During 2003-2004 he was granted by Lise Meitner Fellowship from Austrian Scientific Society to stay in Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria (group of Prof. J. R. Krenn and Prof. F. R. Aussenegg). In 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2011 A.L. Stepanov was a Visiting Research Fellow in Laser Zentrum Hannover in Germany with support from the DAAD, DFG, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations (group of Prof. B. Chichkov). Since 2009 he is at Kazan Federal University, Russia. From 2010 to 2012 he got a professorship in the Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia. In 2013, he was granted the National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic from the SlovakAcademic Information Agency to do his study in the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The main research subjects of his interest are Nanooptics, Nanoplasmonics, Nanophotonics, Metal nanoparticles, Nonlinear optics, Laser annealing, and Ion implantation. He has more than 250 publications in periodic journals, 16 patents, more than 25 invited book chapters, and 5 monographs. According to the ISI Web of Science database A. Stepanov has near 3000 citations in scientific publications and his Hirsch index in Web of Sci. is 38.