Biography
Dr. Khanikaev received his PhD degree in Physics from the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2003. After graduation Dr. Khanikaev spent five years at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, as a postdoctoral scholar and then as a senior researcher, where he worked on the topics of photonic crystals and plasmonic nanostructures. From 2009 Dr. Khanikaev held a position of a research associate at the Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, where he contributed to the fields of infrared photonics and plasmonic and all-dielectric metamaterials, biosensing, and graphene photonics. In 2012 Dr. Khanikaev introduced the concept of photonic topological insulators. In 2015 he pioneered the field of topological acoustics. In 2013 Dr. Khanikaev joined the City University of New York as a faculty member. Since 2024 Dr. Khanikaev is an Endowed Professor, Cobb Family Eminent Scholar Chair, at CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (Optica), Senior Member of SPIE, a recipient of the NSF Special Creativity Award (2021), and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2022-2024). Dr. Khanikaev’s current research focus is on theory, design, and experimental studies of photonic nanostructures and low-dimensional materials. His current research interests and directions include quantum phenomena and light-matter interactions in engineered optical nanomaterials for photonics applications.
