Prof. Valery V. Tuchin

Valery V. Tuchin is a corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics and Director of the Science Medical Center of the Saratov State University. He is also the Head of the Laboratory for Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems at the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the RAS, the supervisor of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biophotonics at the National Research Tomsk State University and the Femtomedicine Laboratory of the ITMO University.
His research and educational interests include biophotonics, biomedical optics, tissue optics, laser medicine, tissue optical clearing, and nanobiophotonics, in all this fields he did pioneering contributions which are summarized in his first-class monographs, textbooks and inventions.
He is a member of SPIE, OPTICA and IEEE, Visiting Professor at HUST (Wuhan) and Tianjin Universities in China, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and the National University of Ireland (Galway).
Professor Tuchin is a Fellow of SPIE and OPTICA, for his outstanding input in the development of biophotonics and biomedical optics he was awarded Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Professor of SSU, Honored Professor of Finland (FiDiPro), SPIE educational award (2007), Chime Bell award of Hubei province (China), Joseph Goodman (OPTICA/SPIE) award for Outstanding Monograph (2015), Michael Feld (OPTICA) award for Pioneering Research in Biophotonics (2019), the Medal of the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (2018) and the A.M. Prokhorov medal of the Academy of Engineering Sciences named after A.M. Prokhorov (2021).
During his carrier, he demonstrated a publication record, being the author of more than 1000 articles (Web of Science), 30 monographs and textbooks, more than 60 patents. His works has been cited over 35,000 times, and his Google Scholar h-index is 83.