Degrees: 

MSc and BSc in Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1979 

PhD in Solid State Physics, A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russia, 1987 

Work experience: 

6/99 – present
research coordinator (full research professor), principal investigator,  Physics Department & CICECO - Materials Institute of Aveiro, University of Aveiro, Portugal 

9/97 – 6/99
research professor, Dept. of Ceramics and Materials Engineering, Rutgers University, U.S.A. 

1/94 – 8/97
research associate, Ceramics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 

9/93 – 12/93

visiting researcher, Leibnitz Institute for Solid-State and Materials Research, Germany

1/79 –  12/93
PhD student, staff researcher, Laboratory of Ferroelectricity and Magnetism, A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia 

Professional activities: 

Member of Ferroelectric Committee & Ferroelectrics Web Editor, IEEE

Associate Editor-in-Chief (responsible for ferroelectrics), IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Member of Editorial Boards of the scientific journals: Ferroelectrics, Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, Journal of Modern Electronic Materials

Guest editor of 4 Focused Issues on “Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials”, Journal of Applied Physics (2010-2013)

Guest editor of the Special Issue “Electromechanics on the Nanometer Scale: Emerging Phenomena, Devices and Applications”, MRS Bulletin (2009)

Guest editor of the Special Issues in Ferroelectrics and Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (proceedings of ISAF-ECAPD-PFM 2012)

Guest editor of Special Issue: ”Scanning Probe Microscopy of Ferroics” (Materials, November 2017)

Guest editor of 2 Special Issues: ”Applications of Ferroelectrics” and  “Nanoscale  Ferroelectrics” (IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and  Frequency Control, 2006-2007)

Technical Program Committee, IUMRS-ICEM, Symposium S4 Functional Materials (2018, S. Korea)

Co-chair of Technical Program Committee, the Intl. Joint IEEE ISAF-ISIF-PFM Symposium (2015, Singapore)

Co-chair of the International Conference “Piezoresponse Forсe Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials” (Russia, 2014)

Co-chair of Technical Program Committee, the Intl. Joint IEEE UFFC Symposium (Czech Republic, 2013)

General chair of the 22^nd Intl. Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (Portugal, 2012)

General co-chair of the 21^th Intl Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (Canada, 2011)

General chair of the 6^th and11^th European Conferences on Applications of Polar Dielectrics (2002, 2012)

Symposium co-chair, International Union of Materials Research Societies – 
International Conference on Electronic Materials (2018)

Co-founder of the Intl. Conference “Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials” (started June 2009 in Portugal, continued in Japan, Canada, China-3, Czech Rep-2, USA-3, Singapore, S. Korea)

Member of Advisory Boards of the conferences: “International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics”, “Micro- and Nano-scale Domain Structuring in Ferroelectrics”, “European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics”, “Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials”

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium “Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications” of E-MRS Spring Meeting (2009)

Member of the Program Committees of the CIMTEC conferences (Italy, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2018)

Member of the Program Committee of the European Conference on Ferroelectrics (France, 2011)

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, 2013 Joint UFFC, EFTF and PFM Symposum (Czech Republic, 2013)

Member of the International Program Committee of the 43^rd Confernece on Micro- and Nanoengineering (Portugal, 2017)

Member of the Materials Research Society, IEEE-UFFC and Portuguese Materials Society

Reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals including “Science”, “Nature Materials”, “Nature Nanotechnology”,“Advanced Materials”, “Advanced Functional Materials”, “Advanced Energy Materials’, “ACS Nano”, “Phys. Rev. Lett.”, “Appl. Phys. Lett.”, “J. Appl. Phys.”, “Sensors & Actuators”, etc.

Reviewer for the following grant agencies:

European Research Executive Agency (FP7-EU), DFG (Germany), ROSNANO (Russia), Russian Ministry of Science and Education, Russian Science Foundation, Czech Scence Foundation, Department of Energy (USA), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, EUREKA-Eurostars (EU), Denmark Innovation Fund, ERA.NET, Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland), Israel Science Foundation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Oak Ridge Natl. Laboratory (USA), and COST action (EU)

Awards: 

Award of the A. F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russia

FASIP Award, Rutgers University, U.S.A. 

IEEE Senior Member

Award of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - “Estímulo de Excellência” 

Award of the Intl. Symposium on Domains and Mesoscopic Structures in Ferroelectrics

IEEE Fellow (class 2012): "for contributions to electromechanical characterization methods and applications"

IEEE Ferroelectrics Recognition Award (2015) "for the substantial contribution to the understanding of ferroelectrics at the nanoscale"

Recent invited/plenary presentations: 

"Nanoscale piezoelectric materials: structure, properties, applications", Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies (FMN&T), Latvia, October 2-5, 2018

"Nanoscale piezoelectricity in functional materials", 14th Russia/CIS/Baltic/Japan Symposium on Ferroelectricity, May 14-18, 2018

“Piezoresponse Force Microscopy of emergent piezoelectric materials”, IUMRS-ICEM Joint Conference, S. Korea, August 19-24, 2018

“Nanoscale piezoelectric materials and their applications”, 15th International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (NN18), Greece, 3-6 July 2018.

“Emergent piezoelectric materials and applications”, International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities (ISIF-2017), India,December 10-13, 2017

“Piezoresponse Force Microscopy of emergent piezoelectric materials”, International Workshop on Atomic Force Microscopy for Advanced Functional Materials (AFM^2), China, December 8-10, 2017.

“Novel supramolecular biomaterials for piezoelectric applications”, International Conference “Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM-2017)”, Russia, August 27-30, 2017

“Energy harvesting materials and characterisation”, International Workshop “Frontiers in Materials Characterisation towards Industrial Translation (FRIMACHAT) 2017”, Ireland,July 11-13, 2017

“Electrochemical Strain Microscopy”, International Conference “Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies (FM&NT), Estonia, April 24-28, 2017

“Self-assembled diphenylalanine microtubes: emerging properties and applications”, 9th International conference on Advanced Nanomaterials, Aveiro, Portugal, July 17-21 (2017)

“Self-assembled peptides: structure, properties, and applications”, XXII Polish-Czech Seminar: Structural and Ferroelectric Phase Transitions, Poland, May 16-20 (2016)

“Piezoelectric properties of 2D-materials: a case of graphene”, IEEE  ISAF/ECAPD/PFM Conference, Darmstadt, Germany (2016)

“Nanoelectromechanics in oxides: from piezoelectricity to local electrochemistry”, Spring E-MRS, Lille, France (2015)