Prof. Svetlana G. Lukishova

Prof. Svetlana G. Lukishova is a Group Leader at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, where she has worked for more than 20 years. She received her Ph.D. degree in high-power laser physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology/Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences under supervision of a Nobel Prize winner A.M. Prokhorov and Prof. P.P. Pashinin. She authored more than 250 publications on quantum nanophotonics, nonlinear optics, liquid crystals and laser physics including co-editing two Springer books “Self-focusing: Past and Present. Fundamentals and Prospects” (2009) and “Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications” (2019). She served six years as the Topical/Associate Editor of “Optics Letters”. She is now working on room-temperature sources of indistinguishable single photons for secure, long-distance quantum communication, that includes single-emitter confocal fluorescent and atomic force microscopies, nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics, and nanofabrication. Her curent interests also include liquid crystal applications in quantum and nanophotonics and teaching experiments in quantum and nano-optics. Since 2015 she created and directs the University of Rochester multidisciplinary undergraduate program on the Certificate in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering based on Quantum Optics and Nano-Optics laboratory facility that already exists more than 15 years. Prof. Lukishova has publications on the history of science including a second part of her 2019 Springer book devoted to the history of quantum and nonlinear optics before laser invention.