Biography

Official duties

• Teaching

• Research management

Education

Mr. Vartanyan graduated from Saint Petersburg state University in 1976 with a degree in physics. He also took professional development courses in 2005 at the University of Kassel, Germany in 2004 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, USA, in 1994 at State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and in 1993 at the University of Paris-Nord, France.

Professional activity

Mr. Vartanyan started his career at Vavilov State Optical Institute in 1976 and worked there until 2015. In 2015, he became a laboratory head at ITMO University.

Professional interests

Interaction of radiation with matter, nanotechnology, atomic spectroscopy.

Awards

2010 – Honorable diploma of the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society for significant contribution to the improvement of optical education.

2009 – Award of the international academic publishing company "Science/Interperiodica" for the best publication in its published journals.

2004 – Medal "in memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg".

2001 – State research scholarship for outstanding scientists of Russia.

Other areas of professional activity

• Deputy chief editor of the RAS journal “Optics and spectroscopy”;

• Member of the editorial board of the “Optical journal”;

• Member of the dissertation Council D 212.227.02