Edik U. Rafailov
Aston University, U.K
Biography
Edik U Rafailov received his PhD degree from the Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg. Since 1987, Rafailov has been engaged in the research and development of high-power CW and short pulse diode and solid-state lasers. He has authored and co-authored over 450 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including two books (Wiley), ten invited chapters and numerous invited talks to SPIE, LEOS and CLEO. He also holds 11 UK and two US patents. He coordinated a €14.7M FP7 FAST-DOT project: development of new ultrafast lasers for Biophotonics applications and the €12.5M NEWLED project aims to develop a new generation of white LEDs. Recently, he was awarded as a coordinated the H2020 FET project Meso-Brain (€3.3M). He also leads other projects funded by EU FP7/H2020 and UK EPSRC. His current research interests include high-power CW, ultrashort-pulse lasers; generation of UV/visible/IR/MIR and THz radiation, nano-structures; nonlinear and integrated optics; and Biophotonics.