CURRICULUM VITAE

 

SERGEY B. MIROV

 

INSTITUTION           The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Physics

                                   

TITLE                         Professor, Physics

                                    Co-Director, Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies

 

ADDRESS                   UAB, Department of Physics, 1300 University Blvd.,

Birmingham, AL 35294 -1170, (205) 934-8088; Fax (205) 934-8042; mirov@uab.edu; http://www.phy.uab.edu/~mirov/

 

EDUCATION

 

1983

Ph. D. degree in Physics and Mathematics at P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute USSR Academy of Sciences for the work "Room temperature stable color center lasers tunable in the near IR region." (Adviser Prof. T.T.Basiev)

 

1972-1978

Master degree (with honors) in Electronic Engineering, Moscow Power Engineering Institute - Technical University; Direction - Semiconductors and Insulators; Specialization: Materials for Quantum Electronics. Thesis: "Laser Spectroscopy of Nd-ions in disordered crystals".

 

PROFESSIONAL RECORD

 

1999 - pr. time

2005 – pr. time

1997 - 2005

1994 - 1999

Professor of Physics, UAB

Co-Director, Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies, UAB

Associate Director, Laser & Photonics Research Center, UAB

Associate Professor of Physics; Secondary appointment - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

1993 - 1994

Visiting Associate, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Biomedical Engineering & Physics Departments

 

1988 - 1992

Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader at Solid State Physics Department, General Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 2 Master and 4 Ph.D. Degree Recipients Supervised

 

1983-1988

Senior Staff Research Physicist and Group Leader at the Department of Solid State Physics, Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy of Solids

 

1978-1983

Staff Research Physicist, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences

 

1990 (2 mon.)

Visiting Professor, University of San Paulo, Brazil

 

 

PROFESSIONAL        Optical Society of America, International Society for Optical Engineering,

ORGANIZATIONS     American Physical Socety

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

Snell Premium Laureate (Institute of Electrical Engineers, UK 2004)

Soviet Union Young Scientist's First Prize Winner (Lenin Komsomol Laureate 1982)

General Physics Institute Prize Winner for Scientific Research (1985, 1989)

P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute Research Award (1980)

Ministry of People's Education Medal for Academic Achievements (1977)

Who is Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who's Who, 4th edition (1997)

International Who’s Who of Professionals for the years 2000-2007.

Madison Who’s Who for the years 2005-2007

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Long-term research is directed toward the development and investigation of novel vibronic active media for tunable lasers, passive Q-switches, and mode lockers. Recent work includes room temperature stable color center crystals and tunable color center lasers development and application. Research in the physics of color centers formation under ionizing irradiation, color center's photo chemistry, laser spectroscopy of solids led to the development of the first room temperature operable commercial color center lasers, passive Q-switches and nonlinear filters for various types of neodymium lasers from mini lasers to powerful laser glass systems. Other research interests include spatially dispersive multiline and ultraboradband lasers, tunable mid-IR lasers based on II-VI wide band semiconductors doped with transition metal ions, the development of laser based techniques for environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics on the micro- and macroscopic levels, as well as Raman characterization of protein crystals, and developing of time-resolved laser induced fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy of normal and malignant tissues.

 

PUBLICATIONS: 300 research publications in physics: 1 book, 97 peer-reviewed publications in refereed articles, 78 papers published in conference proceedings, book chapters and preprints, 124 not peer-reviewed publications - extended conference abstracts.

 

PATENTS: 17 patents.

 

RESEARCH FUNDING AT UAB (1994-2006): $4,543,991 (Amount funded only lists the funds available to Sergey Mirov’s research program. This does not include the total project costs, UAB and commercial matching. The amount funded includes indirect costs.)

 

EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS: (scored 3.8 out of 4 in students evaluations)

 

Developed and currently teach a three part Undergraduate/Graduate Laser Physics/Laser Spectroscopy curricula.  Laser Physics I & II courses include basic physics and engineering of lasers of all kinds as well as various issues of relevance to lasers and electrooptics including application of nonlinear optics harmonic generation and parametric processes. The Laser Spectroscopy course embraces basic concepts and instrumentation of laser spectroscopy as well as applications of laser spectroscopy in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. 

Developed and taught Advanced Solid State Physics Graduate course illustrating properties of defects in crystals, defects classification, specific defect’s models, their thermodynamics, mechanism’s of defecrts formation, optical properties of defects in crystals, localized energy levels, configuration coordinate diagrams, and application of defects to practical devices.

Taught two semester College Physics curricula numerous times.  The first course covers kinematics, dynamics, energy, momentum, and rotational motion covers harmonic motion, waves, fluid dynamic, heat and thermodynamics. The second course covers electricity and magnetism, circuits, optics, and nuclear and modern physics.

Directed twenty undergraduate research projects at the UAB in the frames of NSF program Research Experience for Undegraduates and supervised four undergraduate students.

Currently supervise five graduate students and three post-doctoral