| 3.2 UEF
University of Eastern Finland, Ita-Suomen Yliopisto | Finland
UEF is one of the largest universities in Finland, with approximately 15,000 students and 2,800 staff members.
Center for Photonics Sciences coordinates all research and education in optics and photonics at UEF in the Department of Physics and Mathematics, the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and the School of Computing (https://www.uef.fi/en/web/photonics). It is internationally well-recognized for its contributions to diffractive, guided-wave, micro- and nonlinear optics, optical coherence theory, graphene photonics and polarization optics, computational spectral imaging.
Role and profile of key people
Georgy Fedorov (UEF node PI), PhD, male, Senior Researcher, is internationally recognized expert in the field of THz detectors and 2D plasmonics. He has an excellent track with high-impact journals, published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. Fedorov is an experienced group leader and research project manager.
Polina Kuzhir, PhD, female, Professor in Nanomaterials, is internationally recognized expert in the field of THz photonics. She has an excellent track with high-impact journals, published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers, being PI in 9 projects funded by EC, including FET FLAGSHIP EU FP7 GRAPHENE (604391) and H2020 GrapheneCore1 (696656). H-index is 58 (Scopus).
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment
UEF has all the required facilities, methodologies and infrastructures to carry out the proposed work: nanofabrication, a laser laboratory, an electron-beam lithography system, reactive ion etching equipment, electron beam surface microscopes, femto and nanosecond lasers, THz spectrometers, micromanipulators.
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