Biography

Vadim Veiko graduated from the Faculty of Electrophysics of the now-St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" in 1963. He worked as an engineer and then a senior engineer at PJSC Svetlana from 1963 to 1969. In 1965, he established the Laboratory of Laser Technologies at the Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (now ITMO University) and officially joined the university in 1969. Here, he has held the positions of a senior lecturer (1969-1972) and an associate professor (1970-1982), and currently works as a professor and the head of a faculty (1982-present). Vadim Veiko received his PhD in 1968 and his DSc in 1982. He was awarded the title of an associate professor in 1974 and a professor in 1983. 

In 1988, Vadim Veiko founded Russia’s first Department of Laser Technologies. He initiated and took part in the introduction of the new subject areas into the Russian list of subject areas, which was consequently transformed into laser equipment and laser technologies.

Prof. Veiko delivers several lecture courses within such specializations as physics and technology foundations of laser technologies, laser equipment and laser technologies, etc. From 1988 to 2014, he published a significant number of textbooks including the debut collection of tasks for laser technologies. 

Vadim Veiko has supervised 35 PhD and two DSc students; he is currently supervising five PhD students and DSc candidates. 

Prof. Veiko is the head of Russia’s leading scientific school in fundamentals of laser-assisted micro- and nanotechnologies. Within this field, he led an industrial (later – problem-focused) research laboratory, where he dealt with the latest advances in laser technologies. In the ‘70-80s, he initiated a large-scale study of laser technologies in microelectronics. Since then, he has introduced several new scientific fields, namely laser processing of thin films – laser lithography and laser formation of microoptical elements.

For his accomplishments, Prof. Veiko received awards from the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Higher Education of the Soviet Union for the best scientific works (1976, 1983, and 1984). For the performance of a series of works on laser processing of thin films and their implementation, he was awarded (as a co-author) the USSR State Prize in 1986. For his activities in 1975-1985, he obtained three Soviet VDNH competition medals (gold, silver, and bronze) and the badge “Honored Inventor of the USSR.”

In 2000, Prof. Veiko was elected a full member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences named after A. Prokhorov. He was awarded the rank of Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2001) and Honored Worker of Higher Education (2005). In 2010, he was honored with the Government  Award in the field of education for creating an innovative system of training specialists in laser processing, followed by Sergey Vavilov's medal for outstanding achievements in optics.

In recent years, Prof. Veiko has repeatedly received various research grants, including by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, Vladimir Potanin Foundation, and others. He is leading activities held as part of the scientific and technical programs of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Prof. Veiko is involved in various public and scientific organizations: he is a full member of the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences; a member of the International Laser Association, International Optical Society, and Russian Optical Society; a member of the board of national experts in lasers and laser technologies; and an expert of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation, RUSNANO, and other scientific funds.

Prof. Veiko is a member of two specialized academic boards for awarding the degree of DSc in Engineering at ITMO University.

He has extensive scientific and educational relations with international colleagues. He also teaches international students. He was repeatedly invited to deliver lectures and participate in international conferences. More than once, he was a participant and also an organizer and chair of international conferences on laser technologies. Prof. Veiko was an editor of several editions of Proceeding SPIE. In 2014, he published the monograph Fundamentals of Laser-Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies with Springer Verlag.

He has over 300 scientific papers under his belt, including 9 monographs and 35 copyright certificates and patents. 

Selected publications

• V.P. Veiko, V.I. Konov (editors). Fundamentals of Laser-Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies. Springer Verlag. 2014;

• V.P. Veiko, S.M. Metev. Laser-Assisted Microtechnology. Springer. Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994 (1st ed), 1998 (2nd ed);

• Ivanov D.C., Lipp V.P., Veiko V.P., Yakovlev E.B., Rethfeld B. Molecular dynamics study of the short laser pulse ablation: quality and efficiency in production // Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing – 2014, online.

• Veiko V.P., Yarchuk M.V., Ivanov A.I. Diffusionless Oxidation and Structure Modification of Thin Cr Films by the Action of Ultrashort Laser Pulses. Laser Physics, Vol.22, No.8, pp. 1310-1316, 2012;

• Veiko V.P., Slobodov A.A., Odintsova G.V. Availability of methods of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics for the analysis of chemical transformations on metal surfaces under pulsed laser action // Laser Phys. 2013. V. 23. P. 066001-1-6, etc.