Prof. Valery V. Tuchin

Valery V. Tuchin is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics and Director of the Science Medical Center of the Saratov State University. He is also the Head of the Laboratory for Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems at the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the RAS, the supervisor of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biophotonics at the National Research Tomsk State University and the Femtomedicine Laboratory of the ITMO University.
His research interests include biophotonics, biomedical optics, tissue optics, laser medicine, tissue optical clearing, and nanobiophotonics.
He is a member of SPIE, OSA and IEEE, Visiting Professor at HUST (Wuhan) and Tianjin Universities in China, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and the National University of Ireland (Galway).
Professor Tuchin was elected Fellow SPIE and OSA, he was awarded many titles and awards, including Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Professor of SSU, Honored Professor of Finland (FiDiPro), SPIE in the field of optical education, Chime Bell of Hubei province (China), Joseph Goodman (OSA / SPIE) for Outstanding Monograph (2015), Michael Feld (OSA) for Pioneering Research in Biophotonics (2019), the Medal of the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (2018) and the A.M. Prokhorov medal of the Academy of Engineering Sciences named after A.M. Prokhorov (2021).
He is the author of over 1000 articles, 30 monographs and textbooks, has over 60 patents, his work has been cited over 32,000 times.