Anatoly Zayats

Anatoly Zayats
Zayats pictured at the King's ascension into the London Centre for Nanotechnology
Born
NationalityBritish
Alma materMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known forNonlinear Optics
Nanophotonics
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013), Humboldt Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsPlasmonics
Photonics
Metamaterials
High resolution optical imaging
Institutions
Thesis Optical Properties of Binary Complexes of Defects in CdS Single Crystals  (1989)
Doctoral advisorA. N. Georgobiani
Websitewww.kcl.ac.uk/people/anatoly-zayats

Anatoly V. Zayats MAE FInstP FRSC is a British experimental physicist of Ukrainian origin known for his work in nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and applied nanotechnology. He is currently a Chair in Experimental Physics and the head of the Photonics & Nanotechnology Group at King's College London. He is a co-director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies