Sergey B. Vakhrushev, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Professor, Head of Neutron Research Laboratory of the Ioffe Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (26 Polytechnicheskaya ul., St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia), Professor of Physical Electronics Department of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnical University (29 Polytechnicheskaya ul., St. Petersburg, 195251 Russia).
Hirsch-Index 30 (Scopus, December 2022)
Scopus Author ID 7004228594
ResearcherID A-9855-2011
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-1404
E-mail: s.vakhrushev@mail.ioffe.ru
Phone: +7 (812) 428-45-88
Web: https://nsp.phys.spbu.ru/ru/staff/v-nashem-kollektive-rabotali/61-vakhrushev-ru.html
Academic Carrier
In 1975, S.B. Vakhrushev graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute named after Lensovet, in Radiation Chemistry, Leningrad, USSR.
In 1985, he received his Candidate of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from the A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad.
In 1998, at the same institute, he defended his Doctor of Science thesis titled “Microscopic structure rearrangement processes in ferroelectrics with blurred phase transitions and related materials” and received his Doctor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics.
Since 1975 to 1999, he rose from a research trainee to the Head of the Neutron Research Laboratory at the Ioffe Institute of the RAS, where he has worked to date.
Over the years, he has worked as a researcher and visiting professor at several scientific universities and laboratories all over the world:
1993 Guest Researcher, Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, Saclay, France
1995 Guest Researcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
1996–1997 Guest Researcher, Ecole Centrale Paris, Chateneau-Malabry France
1998, 2000 Guest Researcher, University of Regensburg, Germany
2002–2003 Guest Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
2004, 2006, 2011 Guest Researcher, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
2006 Visiting Professor, Tokyo University, Japan
2011, 2012 Visiting Professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
S.B. Vakhrushev is the Vice-President of the Russian Neutronographic Society, Russian representative in the European Association for Neutron Scattering, Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of RAS on “Neutron Research at Reactors and Pulsed Neutron Sources.” S.B. Vakhrushev is a Member of the Rosnauka Scientific Council on the Use of Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons in nanosciences and materials science, Member of the Bureau of the Section on Dielectric and Segmentelectric Physics of the Scientific Council on Condensed Matter Physics of RAS, Member of Coordination Boards of European Meetings on Ferroelectricity, Member of the European Coordination Board on Application of Polar Dielectrics.
Research Interests
- Structural phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Nanocomposite materials based on porous matrices
- Inelastic and diffuse scattering of neutrons and X-rays
- Structural ordering and disordering in mixed crystals.
S.B. Vakhrushev has spoken at many international conferences, such as: International Meetings on Ferroelectricity, European Meetings on Ferroelectricity, Workshop on Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics, International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Russia/CIS/Baltic/Japanese Symposium on Ferroelectricity, European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics, Specialized Colloque AMPERE, International Symposia on Dynamical Properties of Solids, All-Russian conferences on the Physics of Ferroelectrics.
Publications and Academic Advising
S.B. Vakhrushev is the author of more than 130 scientific publications in Scopus and Web of Science and several tutorials. He teaches courses on nuclear physical methods in solid state physics; atomic and molecular dynamics; electron, elastic, and magnetic properties in multiferroics and magnetics.
Awards
1986 Leningrad Komsomol Award
2004 Medal Commemorating the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg
