Yuri Kivshar Selected as the 2022 Recipient of the Max Born Award

Recently, Optica (formerly OSA) announced that Yuri Kivshar, Australian National University, Deputy Editor of Photonics Research, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Max Born Award. Kivshar is honored for pioneering and ground-breaking research in nonlinear metamaterials and all-dielectric resonant metaphotonics that derives unique optical functionalities from electric and magnetic dipolar and multipolar Mie-type resonances underpinning new discoveries in nonlinear and topological nanophotonics.

 

 

Yuri Kivshar received his PhD degree in Kharkov, Ukraine. He was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany, and served as a visiting fellow at several research centers and universities in the US and Europe. In 1993, Kivshar moved to Australia where he established the Nonlinear Physics Center at the Australian National University.

 

Kivshar is a world leader in photonics and metamaterials, who is recognized for his seminal contributions to the study of nonlinear and topological phenomena in light-matter interaction. He is one of the founders of all-dielectric resonant metaphotonics governed by the physics of Mie resonances in dielectric nanoparticles with high refractive index. His innovative ideas and high-impact, influential papers are driving several research fields.

 

Kivshar is fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, OSA, APS, SPIE, and IOP. He has received many national and international awards including the Pnevmatikos Prize in Nonlinear Science (Greece), Lyle Medal (Australia), Lebedev Medal (Russia), The State Prize in Science and Technology (Ukraine), Harrie Massey Medal (UK), Humboldt Research Award (Germany), and SPIE Mozi Award (USA).

 

Kivshar has been served as the Deputy Editor of Photonics Research since June 2021. "Physics in China is rapidly developing now, with many strong papers published almost every day," Kivshar said, "I believe my new position will allow me to learn more about new discoveries from Chinese researchers, and also help improve both the quality and topic diversity of the published papers."

 

About Max Born Award

 

Presented to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental. The award was established in 1982 to honor Max Born, who made distinguished contributions to physics in general and optics in particular. It is endowed by the United Technologies Research Center, Physical Optics Corporation, and individuals including Joseph Goodman. The winners include Roy J. Glauber, the winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics (awarded in 1985), and Zhang Xiang, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of the University of Hong Kong (awarded in 2016).

 

Original press release: https://www.optica.org/Awards/YKivsharWins2022BornAward