Sergei Slussarenko
Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM

Sergei S. Slussarenko

Citizenship Ukraine

Marital status Married, two children (1984, 1999)

Education
Minsk University (Bielorusia) (1972-1975)
Kharkov University (Ukr), Physics Dep. (1975-1977),
Postgraduate student, Inst.Phys. (1981-1984),
Ph.D. (1990)

Languges Russian, English, French, Italian

Employment
1977-1981: Research Fellow, University of Kharkov (Ukr), Radio physics dep.
1981-1991: Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, Kiev, Ukraine. Dynamic holography and photorefractive effects in semiconductors.
1992-1993: Senior research fellow of Scientific biophysical centre "Otklik". Kiev. Image analysis and programming.
1994-1995: Head of the Computers and telecommunications Department of General Sciences Library of National Academy of Sciences. Kiev
1995-present: Senior research fellow, Institute of Physics, Kiev, Ukraine.
Non-linear and electro-optics of liquid crystals.

Scientific activity:
Experimental physics of dynamic holography: photorefractive effects in semiconductors, DFWM and Phase-Conjugation oscillation in semiconductors Experimental physics of liquid crystals: photorefractivity, photo-conductivity in dye doped LC, flexo-effect in LC, non-linear and electro-optics, surface and anchoring effects, heterogeneous liquid crystals, nematics filled planar wave-guides. Application research for Liquid Crystal Display

Visiting scientist at the University of Ancona, Italy 1/9/95-31/12/95,1/01/97-30/07/97, 20/12/97-30/06/99. At the Penn State University, USA 1/08/97-30/09/97, 15/07/99-15/11/99, At Madrid Polytechnic University (Spain) 1/05/00-25/06/00, Associated researcher of Institute of Theoretical and Applied Optics, University Paris Sud ORSE, France, 1/11/00-31/01/01, University of Syracuse, USA 1/07/ 2001-1/07/2002

Selected lasts Publications in refereed Journals

1.'Director response to polarised light excitation of azo-dye doped liquid crystal in a cell with one isotropic surface." Mol. Materials, 6, 1996 pp.163-169
2.'Dye-doped liquid crystals as high-resolution media" Optics Letters, 22, n.8, April 1997 pp.549-551
3.' High resolution polarization gratings in liquid crystals" Appl.Phys.Lett.71(25), 22 December 1997, pp.3613-3615
4.'Optically induced space charge fields, DC voltage, and extraordinary large nonlinearity in Dye-doped nematic liquid crystals' Optics Letters. 23, n.02 1998 pp.0253-0255
5.'Photo-induced space charge field, photo-voltaic, photorefractivity, and optical wave mixing in nematic liquid crystals' Mol.Cryst.Liq. Cryst. V.321, pp 419-438 1998
6.'Laser beam modulation freezing on a liquid crystal surface' Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. V 320,pp 69-76 1998
7.'Light-induced surface sliding of the nematic director in liquid crystals' Phys. Rev. Letters v.82 p. 1855, 1999
8.‘Laser-induced non-linear Gaussian lens in liquid crystal cell gives birth
to optical vortices’ Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 324 p.25-30 (1998).
9. “Dye-doped photorefractive liquid crystals for dynamic and storage holographic grating formation and spatial light modulation.” Invited paper in Proceeding of IEEE, vol.87, No.11, november 1999
10. “Photorefractive effect in pure nematics liquid crystal” Europhysics letters. V.56 , issue 5 Dec 2001,