Research Scientist
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

office: 1014 Gerstacker Building
address: 2200 Bonisteel Blvd. - Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099
email: vpy@eecs.umich.edu
phone: (734)647-0971 or (734)936-0267
fax: (734)763-4876

Research area keywords: ultrashort pulse generation, high power short pulse lasers, high field plasma physics

Dr. Victor Yanovsky has a PhD from Institute of General Physics of USSR's Academy of Sciences (1989). Before coming Michigan he had a research associate position at Cornell university and a physicist position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he participated in developing of the first Petawatt laser and the first laser-cluster source of fusion neutrons. Here in Michigan he directs the HERCULES laser - the highest intensity laser in the world, and is interested in ultrahigh-intensity intensity interactions with solids including those in the radiation dominated regime, particle acceleration at high intensity and attosecond pulse generation from solid targets.

Dr. Yanovsky was granted College of Engineering Outstanding Research Scientist Award for 2003.