Gender

Male

Date of Birth

(dd/mm/yyyy)

01/01/1980

Passport No.

MP 3551740

Academic levels

Ph.D., D.Sc., Docent

Major

D.Sc.

Professional Title

Dr., Professor

Tel.

+375295898234

E-mail

novitsky@

Educational Background

05/2014          Doctor of Science in Theoretical Physics, Belarusian State University (BSU), Minsk, Belarus

06/2006          Candidate of Science (Ph.D. equivalent) in Theoretical Physics, BSU, Minsk

11/2002 – 10/2005  Ph.D. student, Department of Theoretical Physics, BSU, Minsk

06/2002          Diploma with Honors in Theoretical Physics, Physics Faculty, BSU, Minsk

Work Experience

07/2018 – present   Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, BSU

07/2016 – 06/2018  Senior Researcher, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

11/2014 – 06/2016  Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, BSU, Minsk

07/2012 – 10/2014  Docent, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, BSU, Minsk

07/2010 – 06/2012  PostDoc, Department of Photonics Engineering, DTU

12/2009 – 06/2010  Docent, Department of Theoretical Physics, BSU, Minsk

09/2007 – 11/2009  Senior Lecturer, Department of Theoretical Physics, BSU, Minsk

12/2005 – 08/2007  Assistant, Department of Theoretical Physics, BSU, Minsk

Experience

In Russian: Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Physics of Wave Processes, Physics of Condensed Media;
In English: Applied Problems in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

International experience(especially in English language countries)

07/2016 – 06/2018  Senior Researcher at the Metamaterials group headed by Prof. Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

03/2014            Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (group of Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu)

07/2010 – 06/2012   PostDoc at the Metamaterials group, Department of Photonics Engineering, DTU

Research Interests

Optical waveguides, electromagnetic beams, wave optics of bianisotropic media, metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, scattering theory, optical forces, superresolution, optical parity-time symmetry

Research Projects

I was a manager for the following projects: Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research projects “Development of the novel covariant method and devices in transformation optics” (2010-2012), “Pulling radiation force for control over the nanoparticles dynamics” (2013-2015), “Novel approaches for opto-mechanical manipulation via tailoring multipole moments of nano-scale objects” (2016-2018) and “New methods for optical manipulation by localized waves on metal, metamaterial and PT-symmetric substrates” (2018-2020); task of the State program of scientific research of Belarus, "Convergence 2020" (2016-2020).

Honors and Awards

Honors from the BSU (2009); B.I. Stepanov Award for young researchers (Belarusian National Academy of Sciences, 2013); A.N. Sevchenko Award for young Doctors of Science (BSU, 2019), Acknowledgement from the BSU Rector (2020).

Publications

Books —

Articles: 70

Selected publications

1. A.V. Novitsky and L.M. Barkovsky, Operator matrices for describing guiding propagation in circular bianisotropic fibres, Journal of Physics A.: Mathematical and General, vol. 38, p. 391–404 (2005).

2. A.V. Novitsky and L.M. Barkovsky, Guided modes in negative-refractive-index fibres, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 7, p. S51–S56 (2005). [published in special issue]

3. A.V. Novitsky and D.V. Novitsky, Negative propagation of vector Bessel beams, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 24, p. 2844–2849 (2007).

4. A. Novitsky and L. Barkovsky, Matrix approach for light scattering from a multilayered rotationally symmetric bianisotropic sphere, Physical Review A, vol. 77, 033849 (2008).

5. A.V. Novitsky and D.V. Novitsky, Nonparaxial Airy beams: role of evanescent waves, Optics Letters, vol. 34, p. 3430–3432 (2009).

6. A. Novitsky, C.-W. Qiu, and H. Wang, Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams, Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, 203601 (2011). [Highlighted as Physics Synopsis]

7. A.V. Novitsky, S.V. Zhukovsky, L.M. Barkovsky, and A.V. Lavrinenko, Field approach in the transformation optics concept, Progress In Electromagnetics Research, vol. 129, p. 485–515 (2012).

8. A. Novitsky, C.-W. Qiu, and A. Lavrinenko, Material-Independent and Size-Independent Tractor Beams for Dipole Objects, Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, 023902 (2012).

9. A.V. Novitsky, V.M. Galynsky, and S.V. Zhukovsky, Asymmetric transmission in planar chiral split-ring metamaterials: Microscopic Lorentz-theory approach, Physical Review B, vol. 86, 075138 (2012).

10. C.-W. Qiu, D. Palima, A. Novitsky, D. Gao, W. Ding, S.V. Zhukovsky, and J. Gluckstad Engineering light-matter interaction for emerging optical manipulation applications, Nanophotonics, vol. 3, p. 181–201 (2014).

11. D. Gao, A. Novitsky, T. Zhang, F.C. Cheong, L. Gao, C.T. Lim, B. Luk'yanchuk, and C.-W. Qiu, Unveiling the correlation between non-diffracting tractor beam and its singularity in Poynting vector, Laser & Photonics Reviews, vol. 9, p. 75–82 (2015).

12. A.V. Novitsky, Scattered field generation and optical forces in transformation optics, Journal of Optics, vol. 18, 044021 (2016). [published in special issue as an invited paper]

13. V. Popov, A.V. Lavrinenko, and A. Novitsky, Operator approach to effective medium theory to overcome a breakdown of Maxwell Garnett approximation, Physical Review B, vol. 94, 085428 (2016).

14. A.A. Gorlach, M.A. Gorlach, A.V. Lavrinenko, and A. Novitsky, Matter-Wave Tractor Beams, Physical Review Letters, vol. 118, 180401 (2017). [Highlighted as PRL Editor’s Suggestion and Physics Synopsis]

15. A. Novitsky, T. Repän, S.V. Zhukovsky, and A.V. Lavrinenko, Subwavelength hyperlens resolution with perfect contrast function, Annalen der Physik (Berlin), vol. 530, no. 3, 1700300 (2018).

16. A. Novitsky, T. Repän, R. Malureanu, O. Takayama, E. Shkondin, and A.V. Lavrinenko, Search for superresolution in a metamaterial solid immersion lens, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 99, 023835 (2019).

17. A. Novitsky, D. Lyakhov, D. Michels, A.A. Pavlov, A.S. Shalin, and D.V. Novitsky, Unambiguous scattering matrix for non-Hermitian systems, Physcial Review A, vol. 101, 043834 (2020).

18. F. Morozko, A. Novitsky, and A. Karabchevsky, Modal Purcell factor in PT-symmetric waveguides, Physical Review B, vol. 102, 155303 (2020).