Nikolay Zheludev

{{short description|British scientist}}

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|name = Nikolay Zheludev

|birth_name = Nikolay I. Zheludev

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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|4|23}}

|birth_place = Moscow, Russia

|alma_mater = Moscow State University

|spouse= Tanya Nousinova

|children= Ilya{{cite web|title=Ilya|url=https://hk.linkedin.com/in/ilya-zheludev|accessdate=23 December 2020}} Ivan{{cite web|title=Ivan|url=https://stanford.rimeto.io/profile/32489:1001:88551|accessdate=18 August 2019}}

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|field = Nanophotonics
Metamaterials
Nonlinear Optics

|work_institution = University of Southampton
Nanyang Technological University
Moscow State University

|doctoral_advisors = A. I. Kovrigin (PhD 1981)
S. A. Akhmanov (DSc 1992)

|prizes = Young Medal and Prize (2015)
President's Science and Technology Award (2020)
Michael Faraday Medal and Prize (2022)

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|website = {{URL|https://www.nanophotonics.org.uk}}
{{URL|https://www.nanophotonics.sg}}

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Nikolay Zheludev {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (born 23 April 1955) is a British scientist specializing in nanophotonics,{{cite journal|author=Rogers, Edward T. F.|author2=Lindberg, Jari|author3=Roy, Tapashree|author4=Savo, Salvatore|author5=Chad, John E.|author6=Dennis, Mark R.|author7=Zheludev, Nikolay I.|title=A super-oscillatory lens optical microscope for subwavelength imaging|journal=Nature Materials|volume=11|issue=5|pages=432–435|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|year=2012|issn=1476-1122|doi=10.1038/nmat3280|pmid=22447113|bibcode=2012NatMa..11..432R}} metamaterials,{{cite journal|author1=Zheludev, Nikolay I.|author2=Kivshar, Yuri S.|title=From metamaterials to metadevices|journal=Nature Materials|volume=11|issue=11|pages=917–924|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|year=2012|issn=1476-1122|doi=10.1038/nmat3431|pmid=23089997|bibcode=2012NatMa..11..917Z}} nanotechnology,{{cite journal|author1=Zheludev, Nikolay I.|author2=Plum, Eric|title=Reconfigurable nanomechanical photonics metamaterials|journal=Nature Nanotechnology|volume=11|issue=1|pages=16–22|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|year=2016|issn=1748-3387|doi=10.1038/nnano.2015.302|pmid=26740040|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/379138/1/RPMreview-23.pdf|bibcode=2016NatNa..11...16Z}} electrodynamics,{{cite journal|author1=Papasimakis, Nikitas|author2=Fedotov, Vassili A.|author3=Raybould, Timothy A.|author4=Zheludev, Nikolay I.|title=Electromagnetic toroidal excitations in matter and free space|journal=Nature Materials|volume=15|issue=3|pages=263–271|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|year=2016|doi=10.1038/nmat4563|pmid=26906961|bibcode=2016NatMa..15..263P|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/380437/1/accepted_version.pdf}} and nonlinear optics.{{cite book|author1=Svirko, Yu.|author2=Zheludev, Nikolay|year=1998|title=Polarization of Light in Nonlinear Optics|publisher=Wiley|isbn=0471976407}} Nikolay Zheludev is one of the founding members of the closely interlinked fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics that emerged at the dawn of the 21st century on the crossroads of optics and nanotechnology. Nikolay's work focus on developing new concepts in which nanoscale structuring of matter enhance and radically change its optical properties.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/nikolay-zheludev-13855/|title=Nikolai Zheludev - Royal Society|website=royalsociety.org}}

Career and research

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Zheludev started his academic career at the International Laser Centre at Moscow State University, where he also obtained MSc, PhD and DSc.{{cite web|title=Prof Nikolay Zheludev|publisher=Nanyang Technological University|url=http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=NZHELUDEV|accessdate=18 August 2019}} He moved to the UK in 1991, becoming in 2007 the director of the Centre for Photonic Metamaterials and deputy director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre of the University of Southampton,{{cite web|title=ORC Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Research Group|url=http://www.nanophotonics.org.uk/niz/people/niz.html|accessdate=18 August 2019}} one of the world's leading institutes for photonics research and the largest photonics group in the UK.

Nikolay also works in Singapore, where since 2012 he has founded and directed the Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies at Nanyang Technological University. Since 2014 he has been the founding co-director of The Photonics Institute, Singapore,{{cite web|title=The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University|url=http://tpi.ntu.edu.sg/aboutTPI/Pages/Overview.aspx|accessdate=18 August 2019}} Asia leading research organization uniting 250 faculty and researches working in photonics.

Zheludev has led some major multi-million research programmes in the UK and Singapore including UK EPSRC NanoPhotonics Portfolio Partnership (2004–2009), Basic Technology Programme “Nanoscope” (2008–2013),{{cite web|url=https://gtr.ukri.org/person/69678F23-E8B9-4B1D-9A43-3D254FC9C227|title=Nikolay Zheludev|publisher=GtR|accessdate=18 August 2019}} Programme on “Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials” (2010–2016), Programme on “The Physics and Technology of Photonic Metadevices and Metasystems” (2015–2021), the Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 3 Programmes on “Disruptive Photonic Technologies” (2012–2017) and “Quantum and Topological Nanophotonics” (2016–2022).{{cite web|url=https://cos.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Key-Projects/MOE/Pages/Quantum-and-Topological-Nanophotonics-(2017).aspx|title=Quantum and Topological Nanophotonics (2017)|accessdate=18 August 2019}}

He served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Optics{{cite news|url=https://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/news/5338|title=Professor Nikolay Zheludev announced as New Editor-in-Chief for top IOP Journal|date=27 January 2009|accessdate=18 August 2019}} from 2010 until 2020, and he is currently an Advisory Board Member for Nanophotonics and ACS Photonics. In 2007, he established the European Physical Society international biennial meeting for nanophotonics and metamaterials, the NANOMETA conference.{{cite journal|author=Gevaux, David|title=View from...NANOMETA-2007: Big minds think small|journal=Nature Photonics|volume=1|issue=3|pages=141–142|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|year=2007|issn=1749-4885|doi=10.1038/nphoton.2007.10|bibcode=2007NaPho...1..141G}}

=Awards and honours=

Zheludev was awarded the Thomas Young Medal and Prize in 2015 for “Global Leadership and Pioneering, Seminal Work in Optical Metamaterials and Nanophotonics”.{{cite web|title=2015 Young Medal and Prize|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/young/medallists/page_65840.html|accessdate=18 August 2019}} In 2022, he was awarded the Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for ""For international leadership, discoveries and in-depth studies of new phenomena and functionalities in photonic nanostructures and nanostructured matter". In 2020, he was awarded the President's Science and Technology Award, the highest honours bestowed on research scientists in Singapore.{{cite web|title=PSTA Singapore|url=https://www.a-star.edu.sg/Research/psta|accessdate=23 December 2020}} Zheludev has also been awarded the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2000);{{cite web|title=Southampton University Research Awards, 2nd Quarter 2000|url=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~faccts/nrjuna00.htm|accessdate=18 August 2019}} Senior Research Professorship of the EPSRC (2002); and The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award & Fellowship (2009).{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/nikolay-zheludev-8609/|title=Nikolay Zheludev|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=18 August 2019}} He is a Fellow of the European Physical Society (EPS),{{cite web|title=EPS List of Fellows|url=http://www.eps.org/?page=distinction_fellows|accessdate=18 August 2019}} The Optical Society (OSA),{{cite web|title=OSA Fellows, 2005|url=http://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/recent_fellows/2005_fellows/|accessdate=18 August 2019}} The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the American Physical Society (APS).{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=Z&year=&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=American Physical Society|accessdate=18 August 2019}}

In 2018, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, a fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. In 2019, he was elected as a foreign member of the United States of America National Academy of Engineering.{{cite web|url=https://media.ntu.edu.sg/news/Pages/Nanophotonics-pioneer-Nikolay-Zheludev-elected-to-the-United-States-National-Academy-of-Engineering-.aspx|title=Nanophotonics pioneer Nikolay Zheludev elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering|date=5 March 2019|accessdate=18 August 2019}} In 2021, he became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}

Personal life

Nikolay was born in Moscow, Russia. His father physicist and crystallographer Prof. Ivan S. Zheludev worked at the Institute of Crystallography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and combined his academic work with the post of the Deputy Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria, Vienna. His mother Dr. Galina Zheludeva was a faculty at Moscow State University. Nikolay's sister, Prof. Svetlana Zheludeva worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences and his brother Andrey is professor at ETH Zurich. Nikolay is married to linguist Tanya Nousinova, daughter of playwright Ilya Nousinov. They have two sons, Ilya and Ivan.

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