Alex Rozhin

Aleksey Rozhin received the M.S. degree in physics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in solid state physics from the Institute for Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, in 2001. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Researcher with the Institute for Semiconductor Physics NASU, Ukraine. From 2002 to 2005, he was JSPS, AIST Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. From 2005 to 2009, he was a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge, U.K. Since 2009, he has been with Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., first as a Lecturer, where he became a Senior Lecturer in 2012, in nanotechnology. His current research interests include nanomaterials synthesis, nanomaterials surface functionalization, development of nanocomposites for photonic applications, solid-state physics, and biophysics. He is working on designing and developing novel ultrafast lasers, polymer waveguides, optical switches, signal regenerative filters, fiber and waveguide sensors, microfluidic devices. He authored or coauthored more than 60 journal and ten conference papers in the area of photonics and nonlinear optical materials, fiber lasers, fiber communication devices, and filed ten patent applications.