Alexey Kavokin

Alexey Kavokin, the director of International Center for Polaritonics, is born on the 7th of March in 1970 in Leningrad, USSR. He received his master degree in physics with honor from St-Petersburg State Technical University and Ph.D in Physical and Mathematical Sciences at A.F. Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg. Afeter a one-year postdoctoral research period at Università degli Studi di Roma II "Tor Vergata", Italie Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, he was nominated as the chairholder, Marie Curie Chair of Excellence “Polariton devices”. From 1998 to 2005, he was the university Professor at Université "Blaise Pascal" Clermont-Ferrand II in France. From 2005, he was the chair of Nanoscience and Photonics and professor of Physics and Astronomy School in University of Southampton. Prof. Kavokin accepted the offer as the director of the International Center of Polaritonics and chair professor in Westlake University In June 2018.