Anatoly Zayats#
| Membership Number: | 6115 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nano-optics.org.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - date Chair in Experimental Physics, Department of Physics, King’s College London, UK
- 2018 - date Director, London Centre for Nanotechnology
- 2017 - date Director, London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies
- 2008 - 2011 Guest Professor, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
- 2005 - 2010 Chair in Physics, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
- 1999 - 2007 Guest Professor, Physics Department, University of Bourgogne, France
- 1999 - 2005 Lecturer in Physics, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
- 1998 - 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Physics Department, University of Konstanz, Germany
- 1997 - 1998 Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- 1995 - 1997 Visiting Professor, Physics Department, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- 1992 - 1994 Research Associate, Institute of Physics, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Fields of Scholarship
- Optical spin-orbit interactions and photonic topology
- Optical properties of surfaces, thin films, semiconductors and low-dimensional structures
- Nonlinear and ultrafast optics and spectroscopy
- Nanophotonics, plasmonics & metamaterials
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Humboldt Research Prize (Germany)
- 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
- 2013 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (UK)
- 2012 Fellow of SPIE - for achievements in integrated nonlinear plasmonics and nonlinear metamaterials
- 2008 Fellow of Optical Society of America - for pioneering contributions in nano-optics and plasmonics
- 2006 Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK)
