Andrei A. Stolov

Andrei Aleksandrovich Stolov received the Ph.D. degree in physics in 1985 from Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia, where he became a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Chemistry. He subsequently held positions as a Visiting Scientist with RUCA University, Antwerp, Belgium, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA. In 2000, he joined Lucent Technologies (currently OFS) in Avon, CT, as a Member of Technical Staff (since 2017 – Distinguished Member of Technical staff). He has authored more than 100 publications in the fields of molecular spectroscopy, polymer science, and photonics. His focus with OFS is the development and characterization of polymer coatings for specialty optical fibers.