Professor Alexey Kavokin

Graduated from the St-Petersburg Politechnic university in 1991, Alexey Kavokin has completed his PhD at the Ioffe institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. After several postdoc contracts in France and Italy, he became a Professor at the Blaise Pascal university, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1998. In 2005 he moved to Southampton as a Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics. In 2006-2009 he worked also at the University of Rome II as a chairholder of the Marie Curie Chair of Excellence. Since 2018, Alexey Kavokin is a Chair Professor and Director of the International Center for Polaritonics at the Westlake university, Hangzhou, China. He keeps working part-time at the university of Southampton.