Russian Liquid Crystal Society

COMMONWEALTH

PROF. Lev Mikhailovich BLINOV

Curricilum vitae

Affiliation and official address:

Institute of Crystallography Russian Acad. Sci., Director of Laboratory. Address: 117333 Moscow, Leninsky prosp.59, Russia

Date and place of birth: 1939, 27 June, Arkhangelsk, USSR

Education:

Graduated from Electrotechnical Institute of Telecommunications, Leningrad, 1961;

Ph.D. from Moscow State University and Lebedev Physical Institute, 1967;

Doctor (habile) of phys. math. sciences- Institute of Crystallography, 1977;

Professor- from 1980

 Teaching:

1984-1989 Courses of General Physics and Physics of Organic Matter in the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas (Moscow);

1982-1995 Co-chairman (with Prof.S.Pikin) of a regular (every 2 weeks) Moscow Liquid Crystal Seminar.

 Professional activities:

1961-62 - Engineer in the State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR;

1962-64 - Engineer in the State Institute of Applied Optics, Kazan, USSR;

1964-67- Ph.D.Student, Moscow State University, Moscow;

1976-82- Senior scientist, Director of Laboratory in Organic Intermediates & Dyes Institute, Moscow;

1982-up to now- Director of the Liquid Crystal Laboratory in the Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences.

 Scientific Supervision Activity:

Scientific supervisor of 28 Ph.D.Theses defended by Ph.D.Students.

 Visiting professor:

Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Orsay, France, 1990, 1991.

J.Guttenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 1991.

Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999.

Institute of Spectroscopy, CNR, Italy, 1993.

Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, 1994 (consulting professor in framework of a UN program).

Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chemie Industrielles, Paris, France, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997.

Osaka University, Japan, 1996, 1997, 1999.

Calabria University, Italy, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.

 Awards:

USSR State Prize Winner- 1985 (for Investigation of Electrooptical Effects in Liquid Crystals for Spatial Light Modulators).

President (Russian) Stipend for outstanding scientists, since 1996.

Honorable Visiting Professor of Osaka University (Diploma, 1997).

Grant of Japan Society for Promotion of Science for outstanding scientists, 1998.

Frederiks Medal of CIS Liquid Crystal Society, 1999.

G.Gray Silver Medal of British Liquid Crystal Society, 2000.

 Membership:

The Editor-in-Chief of International journal "MOLECULAR MATERIALS"

A member of the Editorial Boards of "Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals", "Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics", "Molecular Engineering", "Displays and Imaging" (Int. Edit.)

1980-1988 A member of Steering Committee for International Liquid Crystal Conferences.

A member of the International Liquid Crystal Society.

A member of the Officer Board for the CIS Liquid Crystal Society.

Co-Chairman of 4th and 5th Conferences of socialist countries on Liquid Crystals.

Deputy Chairman of the Council on Crystallography and Crystal Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences.

 Publications:

Total number of publications in referred journals (only monographs, articles and patents) 312 (see the list of publications)

 Selected Publications:

1. L.M.Blinov, Electro-Optical and Magneto-Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals. J.Wiley, Chichester, 1983, 341p.

2. F.Tournilhac, L.M.Blinov, J.Simon, S.V.Yablonsky. Achiral Mesomorphic Ferroelectrics, Nature, 359, 621 (1992).

3. L.M.Blinov, V.G.Chigrinov. Electrooptic Effects in Liquid Crystal Materials. Springer Verlag, New York, 1993, 400p.

4. A.Bune, V.Fridkin, S.Ducharme, L.Blinov, S.Palto, A.Sorokin, S.Yudin, A.Zlatkin. Two-dimensional Ferroelectric Films. Nature 391, 874-7 (1998).

 Invited speaker at International Conferences:

1. 8th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Bordeaux, France, 1978.

2. International School on Condensed Matter Physics (Molecular Electronics), Varna, Bulgaria, 1986.

3.International Conference on Organic Materials for Electronics, Tashkent, 1987.

4.European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Borovets, Bulgaria, 1987.

5. 1st International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Arcachon, France, 1987.

6. 3rd International Conference on Langmuir- Blodgett films, Goettingen, Germany, 1987.

7. 12th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Freiburg, Germany, 1988.

8. 4th International Conference on Langmuir- Blodgett films, Tsukuba, Japan, 1989.

9. European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Courmaeur, Italy, 1991.

10. 12th European Congress on Crystallography, Moscow, 1991.

11. 5th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Tokyo, 1993.

12. European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Bovec, Slovenia,1995.

13. Mediterranean Workshop on Nonlinear Optical Materials, Cetraro, Italy, 1995.

14. Int. Conference on Organized Molecular Films, Numana, Italy, 1995.

15. Workshop on Nonlinear Optical Materials, Val Thorens, France, 1996.

16. 6th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Brest, France, 1997.

17. 17th International Conference on Liquid Crystals, Strasbourg, France, 1998.

18. 7th European Conference on Organized Films, Potsdam, 1998.

19. 7th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Darmstadt, Germany, 1999.

 Main scientific achievements:

1966-68. Discovery of a "plasma mirror" effect in semiconductors (publication in JETP Lett. 1967).

1969-1998. Detail investigations of various electrooptical effects in liquid crystals (State prize of the USSR,1985; monographs published by Nauka, 1978, J.Wiley, 1983, Springer, 1993).

1982. First observations of anti-ferroelectric properties in chiral liquid crystals (Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst).

1984. Discovery of the first polymer ferroelectric liquid crystal (Polym.Bull.).

1992. First observations of ferroelectricity in achiral liquid crystals (Nature, 1992, Liq.Cryst, 1996).

1995-98. Discovery of two-dimensional ferroelectricity (Ferroelectrics .Lett, 1995 , Nature, 1998).

 Citation index: approximately 120 annually (without self-citations)

Knowledge of languages:

Russian (native), English (fluent), German, Italian and French (can read and communicate).

 Home address: 127540 Moscow, Dubninskaya ul. 2, corp.5, app.79.

Telephones: Lab- 7(095)3307847, Home- 7(095)4810724, Fax: 7(095)1351011.

E-mail: lev@glasnet.ru

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