Prof. Marina Popova

Marina Popova graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1964. She worked as PhD student in the Laboratory of Luminescence of the Lebedev Physical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. M.D. Galanin and Dr. A.M. Leontovich, creators of the first laser in the USSR. She received her PhD from the Lebedev Physical Institute in 1968, after defending her PhD thesis "Dynamics of ruby laser". During 1968-1975, she worked as researcher in the Problem Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics of the Latvian State University in Riga. She has made a ruby laser there (the first one in Baltic states) and studied multiphoton absorption in crystals. Since 1975, she is with the Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, were she also got her Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences degree (1992) after defending her second thesis: "High-resolution Fourier-transform spectroscopy of rare earth containing crystals". Since 2001, she has the title of professor in optics. At present, she is head of the Laboratory of Fourier Spectroscopy in the Department of Solid State Spectroscopy in the Institute of Spectroscopy. Her main research interests are physics of impurity centers in crystals, Fourier-transform spectroscopy, spectra of rare-earth ions, solid-state lasers, spectroscopy of magnetic insulators. Her laboratory concentrates on studies of new functional materials for quantum and optoelectronics, quantum informatics.