Prof. Vladimir Trepakov

Vladimir Trepakov graduated at St.-Petersburg Polytechnical Institute in 1972. From 1972 he has been working in Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St-Petersburg, Russia, where in 1980 he obtained his PhD degree (supervisor Professor G.A. Smolensky); during 2001 - 2003 – Professor at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany; from 2003 he joined the Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic. V. Trepakov is a well known scientist successfully working in physics of ferroelect­rics, incipient ferroelectrics, highly polarizable advanced oxides and multiferroics, crystals, ceramics, thin films, nano-powders and structures. His research activities cover phase transitions, zero- and low-T phase transitions, electronic processes and ordering phenomena, photoinduced phenomena, structural and spectroscopic active impurities in highly polarizable materials, confine geometry and nano-size effects; strongly correlated systems. His publication list includes over 250 papers. V. Trepakov is the co-author of the several important fundamental pioneer results, e.g.: i) experimental discovery of the family of the kinetic dielectric thermo-polarization effects (dielectric analogs of Seebeck, Peltier and Thomson effects in semiconductors) awarded the First prize of the International Thermoelectric Society; ii) first observation of the reentrant polar glass state, iii) photoinduced local configuration instability of impurity ions in matrix with soft-modes iv) direct observation of the soft electronic modes, v) experimental observation of polaronic excitons, etc.