Occupied position: Head of the Laboratory of Nanophotonics Title: Professor Data of birth: 19 December 1962 Place of birth: Minsk, Belarus Nationality: Belarus Education and Employment: 1980 - 1985 Belarusian State University, Physics Department 1985-till now - Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (former Minsk Radioengineering Institute) engineer (1985 - 1988), Ph.D. student (1988 - 1991), Doctor Degree (1992), permanent senior staff scientist (1992 till 2004), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993 - 1994), post-doctoral research associate at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1998 - 1999), head of the Laboratory of Nanophotonics, BSUIR (from 2004), Professor of the Department of Micro-and Nanoelectronics (from 2008), full Professor (from 2015) Experience and research interest: experimental research in sol-gel derived films doped with the lanthanides in mesоporous structures - porous silicon, porous anodic alumina and artificial opals, photonic crystals; luminescence, optical characterization; photocatalysis, thin film capacitors, memristors. PhD in technical sciences in 1992. Habilitation in physics in 2004. “Fabrication of film structures with sol-gel method, their properties and application in microelectronics” Teaching discipline: nanophotonics.