Prof. Sergey Lushnikov

Education:

• MD, Physical Department, Leningrad State University, 1985
• Ph.D. in Physics, A.F.Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St.Petersburg, 1992 , advisor Dr. I.G. Siny
• Dr.Sci. in Physics, A.F.Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St.Petersburg, 2004

Permanent Positions:

• Head of Laboratory of Ferroelectricity and Magnetism, 2009 to present;
• Professor, leader scientist, 2005 to 2009;
• Senior Scientist, 1998 to 2004;
• Researcher Scientist, 1992 to 1998;
• Researcher, 1987 to 1992;
• Graduate Student, 1985 to 1987; Department of Ferroelectricity and Magnetism, A.F.Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg.

Area of expertise:

Optic (Brillouin and Raman) and Neutron Spectroscopy, Phase Transitions, Ferroelectrics and Ferroelastic, Multiferroics, Lattice Dynamics, Superionic Conductors, Glass-like State, Dynamic of Biopolymers.

Memberships

Fellow, Section of Ferroelectrics and Dielectrics of Committee of Condense Matter Physics Russian Academy of Sciences

American Physical Society

Professional service

Member of Organized or Program Committee:

• Russian Ferroelectrics Conference (1996 to present);
• 2 and 3^d International Seminar on Relaxor Ferroelectrics (Dubna, 1998, 2000)
• Japan-CIS/Baltic-Russian Conference on Ferroelectrics (Petersburg, 2002; Tsukuba 2006, Vilnius 2008, Yokohama, 2010; Ekaterinburg 2012, Riga 2014);
• Head of Organizing Committee “Quantitative Imaging and Spectroscopy in Neuroscience” (QISIN), 16-19 September 2012, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
• Co-chairman of Program Committee “International Workshop on Relaxor Ferroelectrics”, 1-6 July 2013, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
• Head of State Selection Committee of St.Petersburg State Politekchnikal University, Biophysics Department.
• Member of State Selection Committee of St.Petersburg State University, Crystallograpgy Department.

PhD Thesis adviser

• E.A. Rogacheva (2000), “Phase transition dynamics of relaxor ferroelectrics in light scattering spectra ”
• S.N. Gvasaliya (2001), "Features of the lattice dynamics of complex perovskites "
• Anna V. Svanidze (2007), "Light and neutron scattering at phase transformations in the lysozyme"

Teaching

• Lecture for undergraduate students “Lattice dynamic in ferroelectrics” Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2008.
• Lecture for undergraduate students “Lattice dynamic in crystals” St.Petersburg State University, 2011 to present.