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Prof. Vladimir Fomin

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research

Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Fomin, Scientific Researcher at the Institute for Emerging Electronic Technologies (IET), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden. Member of APS, German Physical Society, European Physical Society, Physical Society of the Republic of Moldova, IEEE, “Superconducting Nanodevices and Quantum Materials for Coherent Manipulation” COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics. Doctoral studies in Chişinău at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the State University of Moldova. Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1978. Work in the Lab. “Physics of Multi-Layer Structures” at the State University of Moldova (from Scientific Researcher to Director). Research interests: non-linear optical properties and transport due to the charge-vibrational interaction in semiconductors and in multi-layer structures, including derivation of the phonon spectra and the electron–phonon interaction; classification of polaritons and phonons; polaronic, bipolaronic and excitonic effects in arbitrary multi-layer structures. State Prize of Moldova 1987. Dr. habilitat in physical and mathematical sciences (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 1990). University Professor in Theoretical Physics (State University of Moldova, since 1995). Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Martin-Luther-University of Halle, 1993–1994). Research at the Lab. Theoretical Solid-State Physics (University of Antwerp, 1995–2008) and the Group Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics (Eindhoven University of Technology, 1998–1999, 2003–2007), Division Quantum and Physical Chemistry (Catholic University of Leuven, 2008), Faculty of Physics (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, 2008–2009), Institute for Integrative Nanosciences IFW-Dresden (2009-2022).

Diploma of a Scientific Discovery of the Phenomenon of the Propagation of Spatially-Extended Interface Phonon Polaritons in Composite Superlattices (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 1999). Medal “Academician P. L. Kapitsa” (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 2000). Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2007). Outstanding Reviewer of APS (2023). Scientific interests in nanophysics:
Research expertise in nanophysics:

6 monographs, including “Self-rolled micro- and nanoarchitectures: Effects of topology and geometry”, De Gruyter, 2021; “Physics of Quantum Rings” (Editor), Springer, 2014; 2nd edition, Springer International Publishing, 2018, 3 textbooks, 14 review papers, 10 patents and 214 scientific articles.