SSU Researchers Awarded with Medals of Public Academy of Engineering Sciences
Researchers of Saratov University were awarded with medals of the Public Academy of Engineering Sciences (AES) named after A.M. Prokhorov. The announcements about the awarding were signed by AES President, Academician of the RAS Yurii Gulyaev.
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Сhair of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics at SSU, Professor Valerii Tuchin received the highest award of the Academy of Engineering Sciences – an A. M. medal for the development of spectral methods for studying tissues. The goals of his research are to solve issues of medical diagnostics and dosimetry in laser therapy and surgery.
‘This study has been done for many years, therefore, such a prestigious award is a mutual achievement of the entire department staff. The research on the use of laser methods in diagnostics and therapy is carried out jointly by colleagues from Saratov State Medical University named after V. I. Razumovsky. Its theoretical component is supported by the publication of research papers in this field and the defence of doctoral dissertations. This award is also important for me because I knew Alexander Mikhailovich personally, being an SSU graduate with a graduation paper in laser physics. Then laser spectroscopy was just beginning to develop. And the president of the Academy of Engineering Sciences Yuri Vasilievich Gulyaev at one time supported my recommendation for the title of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,’ commented Valerii Tuchin.
The medal named after an outstanding scientist, a Nobel Prize winner, a Lenin and State Prize winner, the founder and the AES first president Alexander Prokhorov is the highest award of the Academy of Engineering Sciences. It is awarded in case researchers contribute to the academy development, participate in academy contests, and develop engineering sciences.
Head of the Department of Radiotechnology and Electrodynamics, Professor Olga Glukhova received the AES highest award in physics, chemistry, and materials science. An N.N. Semyonov medal was given to Olga Glukhova for a series of research papers on the topological control of the electrophysical and optical properties of carbon nanostructures and composites based on them.
‘For the last 7 years, we have been focused on the research related to the decisive role of topology in controlling the physical and chemical properties of nanostructures. In particular, we study the processes that allow to demonstrate how the electrical conductivity of nanomaterials, dynamic (in foreign literature – optical) conductivity, and absorption of electromagnetic waves are controlled using topology. Typology is understood as the distance step and the height of the nanoobject size, the pitch of the helical structure of carbon nanotubes, and the presence of certain defects in the atomic structure. The research results are presented in leading international journals such as Carbon and Nanoscale. Four Ph.D. theses have been defended and several more are planned to be defended in this sphere in the current and next year. I would like to note that Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Vasilievich Gulyaev, whose research school I am a student of, was the first in the world to discover the unique emission properties of carbon nanotubes, which gave impetus to the development of several new areas of modern electronics, in particular nanoelectronics,’ O.E. Glukhova.
An N.N. Semyonov medal has been awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991 for outstanding work in physics and chemistry. It is awarded to both Russian and foreign researchers. The award bears the name of a Soviet chemist Nikolai Semyonov.