Homepage of Svetlana V. Boriskina

Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

e-mail: SBoriskina@gmail.com = fax: + 1 ( 831 ) 308 7657

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Last updated: 20 Feb 2012

Grants, awards, achievements

• Career highlighted in 2008 SPIE Women in Optics Daily Planner
• ICO (International Commission for Optics) / ICTP (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics) Award, 2007
• Senior Membership, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2006

• Young Scientist Award, URSI Commission B International Symposium (Victoria, Canada), 2001
• 3-rd prize, Best student paper contest of the MMET*96 International Conference (Lviv, Ukraine), 1996
• 1-st prize, Young Scientist Paper Contest, School of Radiophysics, V. Karazin Kharkov National University, 1994
• 1-st prize, Best student paper contest of the MMET*94 International Conference (Kharkov, Ukraine), 1994

• Royal Society/NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (UK), 1999-2000
• IEEE MTT Society Graduate Student Scholarship Award, 1997
• Post-Graduate Student Scholarship, ISSEP Foundation (Switzerland-Ukraine), 1996-1997
• Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics, SUMMA Foundation (USA), 1996
• Student Scholarship from the ISSEP Foundation (USA), 1994-1995
• Honorary Scholarship from INEK Company (Kiev, Ukraine), 1994
• Full merit graduate and post-graduate scholarships from the V. Karazin Kharkov National University, 1990-1998

• NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant “Micro- and nano-cavity structures for imaging, biosensing and novel materials” (with the University of Nottingham, UK and Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), 2006-2008 (project coordinator)
• "Analysis and optimization of multilayered metal-dielectric mirrors for optical temperature sensors for linear electron accelerators," National Scientific Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology", 2006 (PI)
• Young Scientist Research Grant of the President of Ukraine, 2006 (team member)
• Realising Our Potential Award “Modelling and optimisation of optoelectronic structures based on novel cavities and waveguides”, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK), 2002-2004 (recognized researcher)
• Royal Society/NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (UK), 1999-2000 (post-doctoral fellow)

• Optics Discovery Club; Optical Society of America (OSA), 2007 (organizer)
• Graduate Lecture Course “Electromagnetic Theory on Micro- and Nano-Scale”; International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2006 (PI)
• Young Researchers Career Development Workshop, 2006, 2007; OSA, SPIE, ICTP (chair)
• High-school students photography contest “Optical Image: Physics behind the Scenes”; OSA Foundation, 2006, 2007 (co-organizer)
• Advanced School for children interested in pursuing careers in science and education; ISSEP Foundation (Switzerland-Ukraine), 1996-1997 (co-founder and teacher)

2007:     ICTP (Trieste, Italy)

2006:     ICTP (Trieste, Italy); Optical Society of America

2001:     URSI Commission B

1998:     IEEE MTT Society; Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

1996:     US Civilian Research Development Foundation (CRDF); East Ukraine IEEE Chapter