Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dragomir N. Neshev

1  Address

2  Education and academic qualifications

• 1999: PhD in Physics (awarded 07.06.1999), Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  PhD thesis title: "Dynamics and interactions of dark spatial solitons."
• 1994: MSc in Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  - first degree: Quantum Electronics and Laser Techniques.
     Thesis title: "Nonlinear effects in interactions of optical beams and pulses."
  - second degree: Teacher in physics.
• 1985 - 1989: High school education, School of Mathematics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

3  Professional experience

• January 2015 - present: Professor, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• January 2011 - December 2014: Associate Professor, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• January 2010 - December 2014: ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• September 2013: Abbe Professor of Photonics, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedreich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
• January 2009 - December 2009: Fellow, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• January 2004 - 2008: ARC Australian Research Fellow, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• March 2007: Invited Professor, Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes (LMOPS), University of Metz, France.
• June 2005: Visiting Academic, Quantum Optics Research Lab, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA.
• September 2003: Visiting Academic, Nonlinear Photonics Group, Institute of Applied Physics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
• July 2002 - December 2003: Research Fellow, Nonlinear Physics Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• January 2002: Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Photonics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
• April 2001 - July 2002: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Laser Centre, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• August 2000 - February 2001: Visiting Fellow, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• October 1999 - December 1999: Visiting Scientist, Atomic physics group, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• March 1999 - April 2001: Research Associate, Department of Quantum Electronics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• October 1997 - May 1998: Visiting Scientist, Atomic physics group, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• May 1996 - July 1996: Visiting Scientist, Institute of Experimental Physics, Technical University Graz, Graz, Austria.

4  Awards and honours

2009: Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, Australia.
2009: International Scientific Collaboration Award, Australian Academy of Science.
2005: International Scientific Collaboration Award, Australian Academy of Science.
2004: International Scientific Collaboration Award, Australian Academy of Science.
2003: Australian Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, Australia.
2001: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission, Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge Base.
1999: Academic award of Sofia University for best young scientist in 1998, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1997: Scholarship of NUFFIC foundation for exchange scientists, The Netherlands.
1996: Scholarship of Österreichischen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, Austria.
1994: National academic award for excellent achievements in education from the National Academic Foundation, Bulgaria.
1993/94: Scholarship of foundation `Eureka', Bulgaria for excellent achievements in education.
1992/93: Scholarship of foundation `Eureka', Bulgaria for excellent achievements in education.
1989: Honorable Mention in 20th International Physics Olympiad, Warsaw, Poland.

5  Professional activities and affiliations

• Professional memberships: Member of the Australian Optical Society, Optical Society of America, SPIE, and The Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network (ARCNN).
• Editorial activities
  2012-current: Editorial Board Member, NPG Scientific Reports,
  2010-current: Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Optics,
  2011-current: Editorial Board Member, Advances in Applied Physics,
  2008: Editorial Board Member, Advances in Nonlinear Optics.
• Conference committees
  2014: Chair of the Optics committee member for the AIP Congress, Canberra, Australia
  2014: technical committee member for SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium
  2014: technical committee member for OECC, Melbourne, Australia
  2014: technical committee member for CLEO, San Jose, USA
  2014: technical committee member for Optics & Photonics Taiwan, International Conference 2013 (OPTIC 2013), Zhongli, Taiwan
  2013: technical committee member for SPIE Micro-Nano, Melbourne, Australia
  2013: sub-committee chair for ANZ Conference on Optics and Photonics, Perth, Australia
  2013: technical committee member for ICONO-LAT, Moscow, Russia
  2012: technical committee member for EOS Annual Meeting, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  2011: technical committee member for CLEO Pacific Rim, Sydney, Australia
  2009: technical committee member for the ACOFT conference, Adelaide, Australia
  2006: technical committee member for the ACOFT conference, Melbourne, Australia
• Conference/workshop organiser

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  2014:

  Session organiser "Functional Chiral Metamaterials," at PIERS 2014, Guangzhou, China (25-28 August 2014)
  

  2013:

  Mini workshop organiser "Adiabatic techniques in photonics," Canberra, Australia (2 September 2013)
  

  2012:

  Symposium organiser "Recent Advances in Optical, Acoustic, and Other Emerging Metamaterials," together with N. Fang, K. Bertoldi and R. Oulton, MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA (25-30 November 2012).
  

  2011:

  Workshop organiser "Metamaterials for cloaking: fundamental curiosity or breakthrough technology?" together with R. McPhedran, Sydney, Australia (28 August 2011). Cover story: Nature Photon. 5, 650-651 (2011).
• Selected outreach activities
  2013, Interview for New Scientist on how "Light can break Newton's third law"
  2012, February: Talk at the DSTO Metamaterials workshop aiming to inform DSTO officials in the potential applications of metamaterials
  2012, October: Talk at IP Australia about the recent development in optical nanomaterials
  2009 February: Took a significant part in the organisation and the evaluation of a competition for best popular article written by a student for Cosmos (New Scientist) magazine.
• Service to the community
  2012-present: Member of the Council of the Australian Optical Society, Australia
  2012-present: Deputy Head of Department, NLPC, RSPE, ANU
  2014-ongoing: Member of the ANFF access committee, ACT-node
  2013-present: Member of Director's Colloquium Committee at RSPE, ANU
  2011-2012: Chair of Director's Colloquium Committee at RSPE, ANU
  2011-present: Project leader of the Functional Metamaterials project at the ARC CoE CUDOS. Requires the coordination of more than 30 researchers and demands the completion of about 15 milestones per year
  2014, 2011: Chair of Academic Selection Panel, RSPE, ANU

6  Publications

• Publications: Published three book chapters, 158 articles in refereed international journals, 11 articles in review and note-type journals, and 191 full-text refereed conference proceedings. These publications have received more than 4000 citations and an h-index = 34 by Scopus data (h=39 by Google Scholar).
• Patents: Filed two Australian provisional patent applications. One was converted to an international patent application (PCT stage).

7  Research interests

8  Teaching activities

• Undergraduate teaching:
  2013: Teaching 8 lectures, 2 tutorials, 3 student talks, third year course, "Optical Physics".
  2012: Teaching 8 lectures, 2 tutorials, third year course, "Optical Physics".
  2011: Teaching 8 lectures, 2 tutorials, third year course, "Optical Physics".
  2011: Teaching 8 lectures, 2 tutorials, Honours course, "Introduction to Nonlinear Physics."
  2010: Teaching 8 lectures, 2 tutorials, Honours course, "Introduction to Nonlinear Physics."
  2008: Teaching 10 lectures and two tutorials of two third year courses on "Nonlinear waveguide materials" and "Microphotonics, Biophotonics and Nanophotonics."
• Supervision: Supervised a large number of students, including 41 students at a postgraduate level: 31 PhD (14 full time and 17 for an average of 6 months) and 10 MSc (6 full time and 4 for an average of 3 months), as well as 13 students at undergraduate (Honours and BSc) level. Currently I supervise six PhD students (three as a principal supervisor and three as a scientific advisor). I am also the principle supervisor of three postdoctoral research fellows.