Alexey M. Lomonosov

Alexey M. Lomonosov studied at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University, where he received his Master degree in 1984. He received the degree of Dr. Rer. Nat. at the University of Hei-delberg, Germany, in 2002. In 1984 he joined the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he currently holds a position as Senior Research Fellow. His main field of research is laser physics, in particular laser ultrasound, which he pursues at his home institution and during research stays at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, the University of Le Mans, France, as a visiting professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, and at the University of Le Mans, France. He developed methods to demonstrate the propagation of solitary SAW pulses, the investigation of brittle fracture of solids by means of strongly nonlinear pulses and nondestructive evaluation of residual stresses in metals.