Dr. Valeriy V. Yashchuk

More than 40 years of experience conducting research and developing, performing, and analyzing high precision experiments in the field of visual and x-ray optics, optical and x-ray metrology, laser spectroscopy, atomic and nuclear physics, experimental analytical chemistry, mass spectroscopy, and gas-dynamics via inventing, developing, designing, testing, evaluating, and implementing sophisticated analytical and metrological instrumentation and state-of-the-art experimental methods and techniques.

The results of the work, published in more than 200 scientific publications, 2 book chapters, and awarded 10 patents, constitute a closed loop system of methods and techniques for high accuracy data acquisition, processing, modeling, forecasting and simulation suitable for broad implementation in practice of high-accuracy applied and fundamental physics experiments. The system of the developed methods and techniques can be thought of as a foundation for the Modern Art of High-Accuracy Measurement under development and consummation.

Awards: Leningrad Komsomol Prize in Science for development of Method of Reduction of Phase Space of Atomic Beams (1986); R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Awards for development of Laser-Detected MRI (2007) and Binary Pseudo-Random Calibration Tool (2015), recognition as a 2020 SPIE Community Champion for Efforts on Behalf of the Optics and Photonics Community (2020), Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS (2022).

Membership in scientific societies: Optica (formerly OSA) Fellow, SPIE Fellow and member of APS.