Prof. Andrei Kholkin

Prof. Andrei Kholkin

	Prof. Andrei Kholkin
	Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering and Center for Research in Ceramic and Composite Materials (CICECO), University of Aveiro, Portugal
	Nanoscale piezoelectricity due to symmetry breaking: an Atomic Force Microscopy study
	Dr. Andrei Kholkin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from St. Petersburg State University and Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (Russia), respectively. Since 1993, he has been working outside Russia and held research positions in Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (Germany), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) and Rutgers University (USA). He is currently a research coordinator and head of the functional imaging and nanocharacterization laboratory of the Center for Research in Ceramic and Composite Materials of the University of Aveiro (Portugal). His group develops multifunctional materials (including ferroelectrics and multiferroics) and scanning probe microscopy techniques. He is a coauthor of more than 400 technical papers in this area including numerous reviews and book chapters. He was a coordinator of three European projects on multifunctional materials and currently serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (TUFFC). He is a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals and serves in advisory boards of international conferences on ferroelectrics. He is a member of the Ferroelectric Committee of IEEE and was a recipient of the “Excellency” award from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He has been a Technical Committee member of several international conferences and cofounded a new conference series “Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials” (proceedings published yearly in J. Appl. Phys.). He was a guest editor of the special issues on ferroelectrics published in TUFFC, Journal of Applied Physics and Materials Research Society Bulletin. Dr. Kholkin is a Fellow of IEEE (class 2012), and holds membership in IEEE, Materials Research Society and Portuguese Materials Society.