MIET's professor is in the World's Top 2% scientists

Professor of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Technologies, PhD in physics and mathematics Alexander Kolobov again entered the 2023 ranking of the top 2% of the most cited scientists in the world, and also took 78th place out of 906 among Russian scientists.

The ranking was traditionally published by one of the four largest publishing houses in the world — Elsevier, the Dutch publisher specializing in medical and scientific fields. The citation index was formed on the basis of citation indicators of scientific articles by scientists around the world for the entire period of scientific activity according to the international reference database Scopus. The assessment was carried out using all Scopus author profiles as of October 1, 2023.

Alexander Kolobov's research interests include chalcogenide glassy semiconductors, photostructural transformations in a solid, and first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. The research in these areas is carried out by Alexander Kolobov's research group together with the youth laboratory "Materials and Devices of Active Photonics", established in 2022 at MIET.
Professor Kolobov published 333 scientific articles, the total number of citations of which, according to the Scopus database, currently stands at 9688.

In addition to scientific work, Alexander Kolobov is proactive in the educational process and popularization of academic activity. He currently lectures on EXAFS and XANES spectroscopy as part of the MIET's advanced training program "Synchrotron radiation in the study of materials and microelectronics technology".

"I have been researching different materials using these methods for quite a long time, about 20 years, so I know them firsthand. From 2006 to 2018, I have regularly carried out research at the Japanese Institute for Synchrotron Research (JASRI) as a guest researcher," Alexander Kolobov said at his lecture.

As part of his lectures, Alexander Kolobov shares his experience of using synchrotron radiation sources in advanced research in the field of materials science, and also talks about the basics of EXAFS and XANES spectroscopy.