Valentyn Volkov

Valentyn S. Volkov, PhD, is a physicist, specializing in nanophotonics and advanced materials. Volkov, V. S., Han, Z., Nielsen, M. G., Leosson, K., Keshmiri, H., Gosciniak, J., Albrektsen, O., & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. (2011). Long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides operating at telecommunication wavelengths. Optics Letters, 36(21), 4278-4280. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.004278 , Сo-Founder of Deep Tech company XPANCEO 
==Education and career== 
Valentyn S. Volkov received a M.Sc. degree in physics in 2000 from Moscow State University (Russia) and obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from Aalborg University (Denmark). From 2019 to 2021, he was the director of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Centre for Photonics and 2D Materials . In 2021, together with a tech entrepreneur, Roman Axelrod, he co-founded XPANCEO . 
==Research== 
Valentyn S. Volkov is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to nano-optics and the development of nanophotonic waveguide structures Bozhevolnyi, S. I., Volkov, V. S., Devaux, E., Laluet, J.-Y., & Ebbesen, T. W. (2006). Channel plasmon subwavelength waveguide components including interferometers and ring resonators. Nature, 440, 508–511. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04594 . The last breakthrough research on 2D and anisotropic van der Waals materials, developed and led by Valentyn Volkov and his team, can potentially become a new 'big thing' in the field of nanophotonics and advanced materials GA Ermolaev, DV Grudinin, YV Stebunov, Kirill V Voronin, VG Kravets, Jiahua Duan, AB Mazitov, GI Tselikov, Andrei Bylinkin, DI Yakubovsky, SM Novikov, DG Baranov, Alexey Y Nikitin, IA Kruglov, Timur Shegai, Pablo Alonso-González, AN Grigorenko, AV Arsenin, KS Novoselov, Valentyn S Volkov Giant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 854 (2021) , Georgy A Ermolaev, Yury V Stebunov, Andrey A Vyshnevyy, Dmitry E Tatarkin, Dmitry I Yakubovsky, Sergey M Novikov, Denis G Baranov, Timur Shegai, Alexey Y Nikitin, Aleksey V Arsenin, Valentyn S Volkov Broadband optical properties of monolayer and bulk MoS2 npj 2D Materials and Applications volume 4, Article number: 21 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-020-0155-x , Georgy Ermolaev, Kirill Voronin, Denis G Baranov, Vasyl Kravets, Gleb Tselikov, Yury Stebunov, Dmitry Yakubovsky, Sergey Novikov, Andrey Vyshnevyy, Arslan Mazitov, Ivan Kruglov, Sergey Zhukov, Roman Romanov, Andrey M Markeev, Aleksey Arsenin, Kostya S Novoselov, Alexander N Grigorenko, Valentyn Volkov Topological phase singularities in atomically thin high-refractive-index materials Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 2049 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29716-4 . 
His recent works have gained enormous interest in the community, which is acknowledged worldwide, forming the backbone for developing XPANCEO smart lenses . 
==Personal life== 
Valentyn is married and is the proud parent of three children. In his leisure time, he is passionate about medieval fencing. 
==Literature== 
* Bozhevolnyi, S. I., Volkov, V. S., Devaux, E., & Ebbesen, T. W. (2005). Channel Plasmon-Polariton Guiding by Subwavelength Metal Grooves. Physical Review Letters, 95, 046802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.046802 
* Yakubovsky, D. I., Arsenin, A. V., Stebunov, Y. V., Fedyanin, D. Yu., & Volkov, V. S. (2017). Optical constants and structural properties of thin gold films. Optics Express, 25(21), 25574-25587. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.025574 
* Duan, J., Álvarez-Pérez, G., Lanza, C., Voronin, K., Tresguerres-Mata, A. I. F., Capote-Robayna, N., Álvarez-Cuervo, J., Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A., Martín-Sánchez, J., Volkov, V. S., Nikitin, A. Y., & Alonso-González, P. (2023). Multiple and spectrally robust photonic magic angles in reconfigurable α-MoO3 trilayers. Nature Materials, 22, 867–872. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01208-1 
* Tselikov, G. I., Ermolaev, G. A., Popov, A. A., Tikhonowski, G. V., Panova, D. A., Taradin, A. S., Vyshnevyy, A. A., Syuy, A. V., Klimentov, S. M., Novikov, S. M., Evlyukhin, A. B., Kabashin, A. V., Arsenin, A. V., Novoselov, K. S., & Volkov, V. S. (2022). Transition metal dichalcogenide nanospheres for high-refractive-index nanophotonics and biomedical theranostics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(39), e2208830119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208830119 
* Toksumakov, A. N., Ermolaev, G. A., Tatmyshevskiy, M. K., Klishin, Y. A., Slavich, A. S., Begichev, I. V., Stosic, D., Yakubovsky, D. I., Kvashnin, D. G., Vyshnevyy, A. A., Arsenin, A. V., Volkov, V. S., & Ghazaryan, D. A. (2023). Anomalous optical response of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride substrates. Communications Physics, 6, 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00841-z
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