Prof. Mikhail G. Brik

Prof. Mikhail G. Brik

	Prof. Mikhail G. Brik
	Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia
	A review of the structural, electronic and elastic properties of spinels
	Professor Mikhail G. Brik received his PhD degree from Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia) in 1995 and his Doctor of Science (habilitation) degree from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland) in 2012. Since 2007 he has been taking a Professor position in the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Before that, he had been working in Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), 2003-2007; Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel), 2002; Asmara University (Asmara, Eritrea), 2000-2001; Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia), 1995-2000. His area of scientific interests covers theoretical spectroscopy of transition metal and rare earth ions in optical materials, crystal field theory, ab initio calculations of physical properties of pure and doped functional compounds. He is a co-editor of two books, author of 10 book chapters and about 250 papers in the international journals. According to Google Scholar, he has more than 1900 citations with h-index=23. In 2006 he received the Dragomir Hurmuzescu Award of Romanian Academy; in 2013 he received the State Prize of Republic of Estonia in the field of exact sciences. He is also an Honorary Professor of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.