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Gennady Shvets
Cornell University
About the Speaker
Gennady Shvets is a Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. He received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 1995. Before moving to Cornell in 2016, he was on the physics faculty of the University of Texas at Austin for 12 years. His research interests include nanophotonics, optical and microwave metamaterials and their applications (including bio-sensing, optoelectronic devices, and vacuum electronics), topological concepts in photonics, and intense laser-matter interactions. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 papers in refereed journals, earning him the designation of a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (publisher of Web of Science) in 2019-2022. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optica, and SPIE. Professor Shvets is one of the pioneers in the emerging field of active optical metamaterials and their integration with other controllable platforms, such as liquid crystals and 2D materials. His most recent work deals with the applications of metamaterials and plasmonics to biosensing and molecular fingerprinting of proteins and live cells using metamaterial arrays, electrically-controlled nanoscale photonic topological insulators, graphene-based metamaterials, and multi-color meta-optics. His group developed some of the pioneering concepts in the emerging field of ultra-fast nanophotonics, including ultrafast amplitude/phase modulation and polarimetry using graphene-integrated metasurfaces, broadband high-harmonics generation, and varifocal multi-color metalenses.
