Biography

• Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Quantum Electronics at Engineering and Physics Faculty of Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University now) (1982).
• Postgraduate student of the Faculty of Quantum electronics at Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (1982-85).
• Engineer, assistant-, associate-, full professor of the Faculty of Physics at Natural Science Faculty of Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, (1986-2002).

Degree

• Dr. Sci. Phys. and  Maths., optics, Saint Petersburg State University (1997)
• PhD, optics, Saint Petersburg State University (1986)

Present job titles

• Professor at Faculty of Photonics
• Head of International Institute of Photonics and Optoinformatics at ITMO University (2013-present)

Professional memberships

Member of

• SPIE
• Scientific Adviser of SPIE Student Chapter in ITMO University
• D.S. Rozdestvenskiy Optical Society

Research Grants

More than 30 grants. Among them

• Russian Scientific School, SS-5707.2010.2, 2010.
• CRDF grant , RP-2249, 2001—2003.
• ISSEP grants, 1992—1994, 1996—1997

Awards

Medal named after Academician A.A. Lebedev, Russia, awarded 2000 for the «outstanding results in optics».

Selected Publications

175 papers in refereed journals. Among them

1. Drozdov А.А., Kozlov S.А., Sukhorukov A.A., Kivshar Yu.S. Self-phase modulation and frequency generation with few-cycle optical pulses in nonlinear dispersive media. – Physical Review A. 2012. V. 86. N 5. P. 053822-10.
2. Kozlov S.A., Samartsev V.V. Fundamentals of femtosecond optics. — Woodhead Publishing Limited,  2013, 253 p.
3. Berkovsky A.N., Kozlov S.A., Shpolyanskiy Yu.A. Self-focusing of few-cycle light pulses in dielectric media. – Physical Review, A72, 2005, 043821.
4. Bespalov V.G., Kozlov S.A., Shpolyanskiy Yu.A., Walmsley I.A. Simplified field wave equations for the nonlinear propagation of extremely short light pulses. – Physical Review A., 2002, v.66, 013811.
5. Kozlov S.A., Sazonov S.V. Nonlinear propagation of optical pulses of a few oscillations duration in dielectric media. – Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 1997, V.84, N2, p.221-228.