Biography

Responsibilities

• teaching;

• thesis supervision.

Education

1976 – physics, St. Petersburg State University.

Advanced training

2005 – University of Kassel, Germany;

2004 – New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States;

1994 – State University of New York at Buffalo, United States;

1993 – Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France.

Professional activity

2016-present – the head of the Photophysics of Surface Laboratory, ITMO University;

1976-2015 – an employee at the Vavilov State Optical Institute.

Professional interests

Interaction of radiation with matter, nanotechnology, and atomic spectroscopy.

Awards

2010 – an honorable diploma of the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society for significant contributions to the improvement of optical education;

2009 – an award of the international academic publishing company "Science/Interperiodica" for the best publication in its journals;

2004 – the medal “In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg.”;

2001 – a state research scholarship for outstanding scientists of Russia.

Other professional activities

• deputy chief editor of the RAS journal Optics and Spectroscopy;

• a member of the editorial board of the Optical Journal;

• a member of the Academic Degree Council.

Selected publications

• N.A. Toropov, P.S. Parfenov, T.A. Vartanyan. Aggregation of Cyanine Dye Molecules in the Near Fields of Plasmonic Nanoparticles Excited by Pulsed Laser Irradiation // The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2014. vol. 118. pp. 18010−18014. dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp505234j (IF=4.835);

• Vashchenko E.V., Vartanyan T.A., Hubenthal F. Photoconductivity of silver nanoparticle ensembles on quartz glass (SiO2) supports assisted by localized surface plasmon excitations // PLASMONICS. 2013. vol. 8. pp. 1265-1271. DOI 10.1007/s11468-013-9544-8 (IF 2.425);

• Hubenthal F., Hendrich C., Vartanyan T.A., Träger F. Determination of fundamental morphological parameters of supported nanoparticle ensembles: Extracting the functional dependence between nanoparticle shape and size // PLASMONICS. 2013. vol. 8. pp. 435-448. DOI 10.1007/s11468-012-9408-7. (IF 2.425);

• Leonov N.B., Przhibel’skii S.G., Vartanyan T.A. Reversible Relaxation of the Shape of Metal Nanoparticles and Its Light-Induced Acceleration // JETP Letters, 2010, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 125-128. © Pleiades Publishing, Inc., 2010. ISSN 0021-3640. DOI 10.1134/S0021364010030057. (IF 1.524);

• Sargsyan A., Mirzoyan R., Vartanyan T., Sarkisyan D. Determination of the Structure of Hyperfine Sublevels of Rb in Strong Magnetic Fields by Means of the Coherent Population Trapping Technique // Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, 2014, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 359-364. ISSN 1063-7761,. © Pleiades Publishing, Inc., DOI 10.1134/S1063776114020216. (IF 0.921), etc.