Research Interests:
Biological and medical physics
Biophotonics
Biomedical optics
Nanobiophotonics
Honors and Awards:
Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation (1999)
Medal “For Labor" (1976)
Order of the "Red Banner of Labor" (1986)
Order of "Friendship" (2005)
Winner of Russian Federation individual grants for the leading scientists, 1994 - 1996; 1997-2000; 2001-2003
The active member of the International Academy of Informatization (since1994) and Academy of Natural Sciences (since 1996)
George Soros Professor awards in 1997, 1998 and 1999

Honors and Awards:
Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation (1999)
Medal “For Labor" (1976)
Order of the "Red Banner of Labor" (1986)
Order of "Friendship" (2005)
Winner of Russian Federation individual grants for the leading scientists, 1994 - 1996; 1997-2000; 2001-2003
The active member of the International Academy of Informatization (since1994) and Academy of Natural Sciences (since 1996)
George Soros Professor awards in 1997, 1998 and 1999
Guest Professor of HUST (Wuhan) and Tianjin Universities of China
Adjunct Professor of the Limerick University (Ireland) and National University of Ireland (Galway)
The Russian Federation Presidential grants NN 25.2003.2, 208.2008.2, 1177.2012.2, 703.2014.2, and 7898.2016.2 “Supporting of Scientific Schools” (1996-2005; 2008-2009; 2012-2013; 2014-2015; 2016-2017)
The Russian Ministry of Science and Education grant “Leading Research-Educational Teams” N 2.11.03 (2003-2014)
SPIE Fellow (2004)
OSA Fellow (2016)
Award of International Academic Publishing Company “Nauka” for the best article: A collection of papers on Biomedical Optics published in “Optics and Spectroscopy” (2011).
FiDiPro Professor (Finland Distinguished Professor Program), awarded by TEKES for the period 2011-2014.
Chime Bell Prize of Hubei Province, China (2014), in appreciation of the positive contribution to the economic and social development in Hubei Province.
In 2012, the book V.V. Tuchin, Lasers and Fiber Optics in Biomedical Science, 2nd edition, Fizmatlit, Moscow, 2010, was awarded by a certificate as the top publication on tutorials, handbooks and scientific-popular publications on laser topic by the Russian Laser Association and nominated by industrial enterprise.
The recipient of the 2007 SPIE Educator Award in recognition of his unparalleled global contributions to education and dissemination of technical information in the field of biomedical optics and biophotonics, and his pioneering work for SPIE's biomedical optics educational programs.
In 2016 was awarded by the biennial Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award, OSA/SPIE that recognizes a recent and outstanding book in the field of optics and photonics that has contributed significantly to research, teaching, and the optics and photonics industry.
Professor Tuchin is the recipient of the 2016 NANQIANG Life Science Series Lectures Award of Xiamen University, China.
Winner of the 2010 Paper of the Year Award for the article; Presented on May 12, 2010 CYTO 2010, Seattle, Washington. Galanzha EI, Shashkov EV, Tuchin VV, Zharov VP. In Vivo Multispectral Photoacoustic Lymph Flow Cytometry with Natural Cell Focusing and Multicolor Nanoparticle Probes. Cytometry A, 2008; 73:884-894.
Special issue in honor of Professor Valery V Tuchin’s contribution to the field of biomedical optics, Eds. R.K. Wang, A.V. Priezzhev and S. Fantini, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol. 38, 2005, pp. 2497-2747.
Special Issue "Laser biophotonics," dedicated to the 70th anniversary of V.V. Tuchin, Eds. A.V. Priezzhev, A.N. Bashkatov, E.A. Genina, Quantum Electronics, 44 (7 & 8), 2014.
Special Issue: In Honor of Valery V. Tuchin’a 70th Birthday, Ed. Kirill Larin, J. Biophotonics, 8 (4), 2015.
Special Issue: Celebrating Prof. Valery Tuchin's 70th Birthday, Kirill V. Larin and Dan Zhu, J. Innovative Optical Health Sciences 8 (4), 2015.
In the list of Top 100 most-cited and productive Russian scientists in the field «Biotechnology» (1st place), in «Biology» and in "Medicine and Health" (September 2016).