Curriculum Vitae

Dr Alexey V. Krasavin


Research Fellow
Department of Physics
King's College London
London WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom

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Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2420
e-mail: alexey.krasavin@kcl.ac.uk
Guest Editor (Plasmonics)
Editorial Board Member
Scientific Reports
Nature Publishing Group
Scientific profile
h-index 42
Patents 1
Book/roadmap contributions 7
Journal articles 101 (including 12 Nature/Science-level publications and 3 PRLs), attracting 4000+ citations
Conference presentations 216 (including 79 invited and keynote)
Education
PhD 30 October 2006 EPSRC NanoPhotonics Portfolio Centre, University of Southampton
MSc
with honours		 11 June 2002 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
BSc
with honours		 30 June 2000 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Leadership
2014 – present PhD and Master student supervision (5 PhD, 11 Master)
2024 – present Task leader, EPSRC Programme Grant CPLAS
2021 – 2024 Task leader, ERC Advanced Grant iCOMM
2016 – 2021 Task leader, EPSRC Programme Grant Reactive Plasmonics
2010 – 2015 Task leader, EPSRC Programme Grant Active Plasmonics
2006 – 2010 Task leader, EC FP6 Project PLASMOCOM
Research experience
2010 – present Research Fellow, King s College London
2006 – 2010 Research Fellow, Queen s University Belfast
2006 Research Fellow, University of Southampton
2002 – 2006 Postgraduate Research Student, University of Southampton
1999 – 2000 Research Assistant, IMT, Russian Academy of Science
Teaching experience
2019 – present King s College
London		 Lecturing: Photonics and Metamaterials
2011 – 2023 King s College
London		 Lecturing and laboratory supervision: Experimental Methods in Physics
2011 – 2014 King s College
London		 Tutorials: Mathematics, Thermal and Field Physics modules
2002 – 2006 University of
Southampton		 Laboratory supervision: 2nd year Physics
Tutorials and Marking: Classical Mechanics, 1st and 2nd year Optics, Solid State Physics, Computational Physics, Astronomy
Analytical and numerical skills
  • Frequency- and time-domain finite element method modelling of optical, thermal and electronic phenomena in photonic nanostructures and metamaterials
  • Development of numerical and semi-analytical approaches treating nonlinear optical phenomena in metals related to complex dynamics of electron gas and optically-induced high electronic/phononic temperatures
  • Development of analytical and semi-analytical methods addressing optical amplification and lasing at the nanoscale, particularly related to nanolasers and spasers
  • Implementation of analytical and numerical methods for investigation of molecular fluorescence in vicinity of photonic nanostructures and in metamaterials
  • Quantum mechanical investigation of electron dynamics in optics and solid state physics
  • Development of analytical methods in chemistry, biology and structural mechanics
    • Experimental skills
  • Laser optics and instrumentation
  • Optical characterisation of nanoplasmonic structures and materials
  • Characterisation of nonlinear optical materials, including fast time-resolved measurements
  • Microwave measurements
  • SNOM, AFM, SEM operation
    • Other skills
  • Proficiency in academic writing
  • Proficiency in specialised software: finite element simulation (COMSOL Multiphysics package); experiment engineering (HP VEE package); programming (MATLAB, python, Mathcad)
    • Awards and grants
  • Two consecutive grants as a part of research teams (King s College London, Imperial College, Queen s University Belfast) for spin-off projects from EPSRC Programme Grants Reactive plasmonics and Active plasmonics
  • 2020 King s Education Award
  • 3-month full-cover research funding from Queen s University Belfast
  • £24000 Overseas Research Students Award for carrying on PhD research in the UK
  • Top-degree diplomas in city and regional Olympiads in physics and mathematics (1994-96)
    • Established collaborations
    I have established fruitful research collaborations with internationally-leading scientific teams, including the groups of Prof. Sergey Bozhevolnyi (University of Southern Denmark), Prof. Romain Quidant (ETH Zurich), Prof. Alain Dereux (Universite de Bourgogne), Prof. Stefan Maier (Monash University Melbourne, Imperial College London), Prof. Pavel Ginzburg (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Pan Wang (Zhejiang University) and Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff (TU Dresden).
    Other scientific activities
    I am taking part in refereeing grant applications (EPSRC, Dutch Research Council), as well as articles for the top scientific journals in my research area, such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, etc., as well as in conference committee work (CLEO Europe, SPIE Metamaterials, International Workshop on Optical Wave & Waveguide Theory and Numerical Modelling) and degree examinations. For more than 10 years I organised a seminar series, called “Light and Matter” at the Department of Physics of King’s College London.


     
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