Prof. Dr. hab. Mikhail G. Brik

Prof. Brik received his PhD degree from Kuban State University, Russia, in 1995 and his habilitation degree from Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, in 2012. He has more than twenty years of international scientific career in Eritrea, Israel, Japan, Estonia, Poland, China, Serbia etc. 

Research interests of Prof. Brik are focused on first-principles and semi-empirical calculations of various properties of optical materials doped with transition metal and rare-earth ions; he has active collaboration with many academic and industrial research groups in Europe, Asia, USA.  

Prof. Brik is the Special Issue Editor of Optical Materials, Foreign Member of Latvian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Member of Academy of Romanian Scientists. He is a recipient of the Dragomir Hurmuzescu Award of Romanian Academy in 2006, Estonian State Prize in the field of Exact Sciences in 2013, Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2022 and Luminescence and Display Materials Division Centennial Outstanding Achievement Award of Electrochemical Society in 2024.  

According to Google Scholar, he has more than 19400 citations with h-index=71.