Vladimír Kuzmiak, CSc.

Research interests:

Photonic crystals, calculation of the photonic band structure, metamaterials, random systems, Bose-Einstein condensate, optical lattices, matter wave solitons, semiconductor physics - electronic band structure of defects in semiconductors.

Professional activities:

Fulbright Fellowship, CIES, Washington D.C. 1992.
NATO Fellowship for NATO ASI on Photonic Bandgap Materials, Crete, Greece, 1995.
JSPS Fellowship , Tokyo, Japan 1997.
NATO Fellowship for NATO ASI on Photonic Crystals and Light Localization, Crete, Greece 2000.
Czechoslovak Union of Mathematicians and Physicists, Member
Senior Member of Optical Society of America (OSA)
American Society for Advancement of Science(AAAS), Member

Education:

1981: RNDr. - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
1990: Ph.D. - Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences

Selected past research projects:

Principal investigator of the projects:

• Theory and modeling of non-reciprocal subwavelength and dynamics of nonlinear photonic and atomic systems (COST MP0702 Towards functional sub-wavelength photonic structures)
• Integrated non-reciprocal photonic crystals based on the two-dimensional magnetooptical photonic crystals
• Optical properties of photonic crystals fabricated from nonlinear and magnetic metamaterials
• Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Dispersive and Absorptive Periodic and Randomly Disordered Systems and Magnetic Field Effects on Photonics Band Structures

Member of projects:

• Physics and advanced simulations of photonic and plasmonic structures
• Nanostructures of Controlled Size and Dimensions