Igor Minin

Igor V. Minin (born 22 March 1960 in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk), is a Russian physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Metrology, and a full professor of Physics at Tomsk Polytechnic University. He became known for his contributions to new directions in optical physics: terahertz 3D imaging, Mesotronics (mesoscale photonics), and subwavelength structured light, including acoustics and surface plasmon, as well as in high energy density physics.

Biography Minin received his M.S. from Novosibirsk State University in 1982 and earned his Ph.D. Physics and Mathematics, specializing in radiophysics and quantum physics, from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute in 1986.

From 1981 to 1982 Minin worked part-time as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Applied Physics in Akademgorodok that had been founded by his father, Vladilen F. Minin, in 1966.

In March 2004, he defended his thesis for the advanced degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences, equivalent to a Habilitation degree.

Minin published several research monographs, including "Diffractional Optics of Millimetre Waves", "Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays" and later "Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics: Resolution Below the Diffraction Limit" and "The photonic hook: from Optics to Acoustics and Plasmonics". Most of Minin's research was carried out with his twin brother Oleg V. Minin.

In April 2007, the FSB of Russia accused the Minin twins of revealing state secrets and sensitive information about research projects for the Ministry of Defence (Russia), following the publication of a book dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Novosibirsk Institute of Applied Physics. This case was widely publicized, well-known scientists and human rights activists spoke out in defense of the physics brothers. FSB investigators dropped their case against brothers, and prosecutors in Novosibirsk issued a rare apology to the scientists in July 2007.

Since Perestroika Minin had been a visiting professor at multiple institutes internationally, including: DaimlerChrysler AG, Doiche Aerospace, Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany), Harbin Institute of Technology, MMW State Key Lab, Nanjing, Beijing Institute of Technology, Capital Normal University (China), Samsung Electronics (Korea), National University of Singapore, Universidad Technica Federico Santa Maria (Chile) and University of Helsinki (Finland).

Research Minin is a pioneer in the field of photonic jets generated by an arbitrary 3D shape particles. - artificially curved light beams with subwavelength curvature and beamwidth. Minin also experimentally demonstrated the existence of Acoustics and surface plasmon photonic jet and photonic hook phenomena. - the excitation of giant magnetic fields in dielectric mesoscale particles compared with the magnetic field in Neutron star and based on high-order Fano resonance.

With his brother, Minin founded the new field of "freezing droplet optics" with the discovery of unusual time domain effects of photonic hook and Fano resonances. He and his colleagues pioneered the study of the unusual optical properties of superresonance and photonic hooks in and near a rotating cylinder and sphere, based on the optical analogue of Magnus effect.

The presence of a number of interesting applications indicates a new promising direction in optics called "Mesotronics".

Minin has also made new investigations in the study of young stellar objects, active galactic nuclei and astrophysical jets by the analysis of pulse plasma jets produced by intense laser-matter interactions.

Minin is author or coauthor of over 450 research publications, including 22 monographs (12 in Russian, 9 in English and 1 in Chinese)

Awards For his contribution to the theory of hypercumulation, Minin was awarded the medal of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences named after Kh.A. Rakhmatulin in 2013.

Russian medals named after V.I. Vernadsky and A. Nobel.

Selected papers Minin O.V. and Minin I.V. Diffractional Optics of Millimetre Waves, lOP Publisher, 2004. 396 p. Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays, Springer, 2008. Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics: Resolution Below the Diffraction Limit, Springer, 2016. Minin V. F., Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. Computational Fluid Dynamics , (2011).