Yurii G. Naidyuk

Yurii Georgiyovych Naidyuk (Ukrainian: Юрій Георгійович Найдюк; born 23 July 1955) is a Ukrainian physicist, 2021-2024 Director of the B.I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). He has been awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology and the B. I. Verkin Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Low Temperature Physics.

Biography Yurii G. Naidyuk was born on 23 July 1955, in the village of Bogdanivka in the Rivne Region, USSR, Ukrainian SSR. He graduated summa cum laude from high school in 1971. In 1976 he graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Physics at Kharkiv State University. Since graduation, he has worked at the B.I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (ILTPE), Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1982, he defended his dissertation for the Candidate's Degree (Ph.D. equivalent) in Physical and Mathematical Sciences on "Investigation of the mechanisms of scattering of conduction electrons in metal point contacts" (Research supervisor I.K. Yanson). He has been a professor since 2011. From 2003 to 2011 Naidyuk was a lead researcher at the B.I. Verkin ILTPE. In 2011, he became Chair of the Department of Point Contact Spectroscopy at the B.I. Verkin ILTPE. In 2021-2024, he worked as a director, then as a chief researcher of the B.I. Verkin ILTPE. Naidyuk interned and worked at various international research centers.

Scientific research activity The main field of Naidyuk's scientific research is the study of the interaction of conduction electrons with quasiparticle excitations in solids using the method of point contact spectroscopy; research of strongly correlated electronic systems and point contact spectroscopy of topical superconductors, including promising ones such as magnesium diboride, rare-earth nickel-borocarbide compounds, newest iron-based superconductors, and topological semimetals. Naidyuk has been researching electronic transport in point contacts at ultrahigh current densities and strong electric fields at low temperatures, charge and spin transfer processes in nanoscale structures based on magnetically ordered compounds and materials.

Naidyuk is the author or co-author of over 120 scientific articles and three review publications indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. With I. K. Yanson he co-authored the monograph "Point-contact spectroscopy" in 2005.

Naidyuk is actively collaborating with European, American, and Chinese scientists and is regularly invited to conduct collaborative scientific research. For over five years, he worked in research centers such as The Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory (France), Karlsruhe University (Germany), KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), The Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice (Slovakia), The University of Turku (Finland), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (USA), The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany).

Awards

The State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2015) The Badge of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "For Professional Achievements" (2010) The B.I. Verkin Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2006) Humboldt Research Fellowship (1995-1996)

Selected publications

Monograph Yu. G. Naidyuk, I.K. Yanson, Point-contact spectroscopy, Springer, New-York, 2005.

Reviews

Main scientific works