Slava V. Rotkin

Slava V. Rotkin (M'02) received the M. Sc. degree (with honors) from St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from the Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1997. From 1994 to 1999, he was a Research Staff Fellow with the Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1999 to 2003, he was a Beckman Fellow and, from 2003 to 2004, he was a Research Assistant Professor with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently Frank J. Feigl Junior Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor with the Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. Dr. Rotkin was the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Fellowship, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Fellowship, the President and Government Grant for Young Scientists of Russia. He has authored over 70 publications concerning the theory of carbon-based systems, fundamentals of physics of NTs and nanowires, molecular and bio-complexes of NTs, and their device applications.