Oleg A. Sapozhnikov

Areas of Research Activity:

• Ultrasonic methods in diagnostics and therapy of the brain
• Manipulation of objects with ultrasound for kidney stone propulsion and fragmentation
• Ultrasound-assisted biofabrication
• Acoustic holography
• Industrial airborne ultrasound
• Design of high-power ultrasonic phased arrays
• Metrology of ultrasound sources and their fields
• Ultrasound propagation through metal – liquid metal interface
• Ultrasound visualization in environments with unfavorable conditions
• Nonlinear wave physics
• Acoustic radiation force
• Optical (Schlieren) visualization of ultrasound fields
• Ultrasonic cavitation
• Measurement of acoustic properties of various media

Education:

• 2008 – D.Sc. in Acoustics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
• 1988 – Ph.D. in Acoustics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
• 1979 – 1985 – Combined BS and MS Program in Physics (diploma with honors), Department of General Physics and Wave Processes, Physics Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professional position:

• 2014 – present – Professor, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU
• 1993 – 2014 – Associate Professor, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU
• 1990 – 1993 – Assistant Professor, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU
• 1988 – 1990 – Junior Research Scientist, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, MSU

Awards/Honors:

• 2009 – present – Head of the “Physical Ultrasound” division
• 2009 – present – Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
• 2008 – present – Member of the Board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics
• 2008 – present – Member of the International Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics
• 2007 – present – Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• 2005 – present – Member of the Committee on International Research and Education of the Acoustical Society of America
• 2004 – Early Career Award of the International Commission for Acoustics
• 2002 – present – Member of the Scientific Council on Acoustics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2000, 2001, 2002 – George Soros Foundation Professorship Award
• 1997 – Prize of the “MAIK-Nauka/Interperiodika” publishing company for the best scientific publication of the year
• 1996 – Physics Faculty of MSU Professorship Award
• 1994 – Prize of European Academy for Young Russian Scientists
• 1993 – International Science Foundation Award
• 1991 – M.V. Lomonosov Prize in Physics