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Gennady Shvets received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1995. He has previously held research positions at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, as well as faculty roles at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests span nanophotonics, optical microwave metamaterials, plasma physics, and their applications in bio-sensing and optoelectronic devices. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 papers in refereed journals including leading publications like Science, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters. Shvets was honored as a Department of Energy Postdoctoral Fellow in 1995-96 and recognized for his impactful research with an h-index of 45 according to ISI Web of Science, with over 7,000 citations. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000 and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society (APS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA). His pioneering work focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, particularly in the infrared spectrum, and he is leading research on novel applications involving metamaterials and metasurfaces for various technologies including microfluidics and biosensing.
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